Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or the sectional crisis published during the previous two years. John earned his PhD in 2018 under the direction of Professor …
This Sunday, December 17 former professional basketball player Devin Harris will graduate with his bachelor’s degree in History from UW-Madison, nearly 20 years after leaving UW-Madison to play in the NBA. Before turning pro, Harris helped the Badgers win three Big Ten titles – 2002 and 2003 regular season and 2004 Big Ten Tournament. After …
Recent alumnus Nils Peterson has been awarded a 2024 Marshall Scholarship. This prestigious honor gives high-achieving young Americans the opportunity to study at the graduate level at any university in the United Kingdom. Nils will be pursuing a master’s degree in Taiwan Studies at The School of Oriental and African Studies and a master’s degree …
The School of Computer, Data, & Information Sciences recently published a student spotlight on Chloe Foor that detailed how Chloe is using her interdisciplinary education to study the human-centered aspects of technology. Chloe is a senior majoring in Computer Sciences, Information Sciences, and History. Speaking on her hope to increase the accessibility of historical information, Chloe says: “I can’t …
Professor Marla Ramírez and two undergraduate students, Lezly Vejar and Zevdah Drizin, presented on their original research at the 2023 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this October. The presentation, titled “Latinxs in Wisconsin: Using Oral History in the Classroom to Document Latinx Immigration and Placemaking,” highlighted oral histories conducted in Professor Ramírez’s …
Congratulations to graduate student Verenize Arceo, who has received two awards from the Western History Association! Verenize received the 2023 WHA Graduate Student Prize and the 2023 Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship. The WHA Graduate Student Prize provides support to foster graduate student professional development and enhance collegial citizenship within the organization. The Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship provides …
The Association of Black Women Historians has awarded its 2023 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize to Professor Ashley Brown for her book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. Bestowed since 1984, the prize recognizes the best book in Black women’s history.
Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and development have led to increased attention to the concept of pan-Asianism. Most of that discussion, however, lacks …
Associate Professor Kathryn McGarr, a History Department affiliate, was featured in The New York Times in a review of four new books on journalism. Read the review of City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (University of Chicago Press, 2022) here.
Professor Pablo Gomez, in collaboration with Adriana Chira from Emory University, was awarded a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative grant for his project “Value, Self-Worth, and the Market in the Black Spanish Caribbean in the Age of Slavery.” This grant, whose final product will be a monograph, was one of only …