April 2012 Scott Prinster has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Panel on Theological Education of the Unitarian Universalist Association to conduct his research for the coming year. This award provides support to scholars who are committed to strengthening the Unitarian Universalism through research and publication, excellence in teaching, and educational leadership. Scott’s dissertation …
Paul Samuel Boyer of Madison departed this life on March 17, 2012 at Agrace Hospicecare, following a three-month bout with cancer. Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1935 to Clarence and Ethel Boyer, he attended the Dayton public schools and Upland College in California. In the 1950s Paul became a conscientious objector, in accordance with the …
Domenico Sella, Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died on Thursday, March 8, 2012. He was born 16 November 1926 in Milan and took his Laurea at the University of Milan in 1949. He grew up speaking French and German as well as Italian, so he studied English. English would …
Congratulations to Professor Lee Palmer Wandel! She was selected to win the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2012. She will be honored at a ceremony on March 28 at the Fluno Center. Each year, the UW–Madison Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence.
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Alfred McCoy was selected to receive the 2011-12 Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities. Earlier recipients of Hilldale Awards in our department are: James S. Donnelly, Jr. (2005), William J. Courtenay (1995), Robert M. Kingdon (1992), and George Mosse (1989) For further information about …
January 2012 Doctoral Candidate Bridget Collins has received a Vilas Travel Grant and a Holtz Center Travel Grant to support two weeks of research at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, on the Children’s Bureau records. Happy travels Bridget!