Asaka, Ikuko – Dissertation title: “Race Across Empire and Republic: Black Migration to Canada and Racial, National, and Gender Formations in Atlantic Context”; post-doc., Penn State. Advisor: Steve Kantrowitz Bradley, Francis R. – Dissertation title: “The Social Dynamics of Islamic Rivalism in Southeast Asia: The Rise of the Patani School, 1785-1909”; visiting asst. prof., Hamilton …
January 23 (Friday) at Noon Bridget Collins, Kellen Backer, and Jocelyn Bosley, UW–Madison “Prelims: Everything you needed to know but were too afraid to ask.” January 30 (Friday) at Noon An open forum for all A “Bring Your Own Idea” discussion – please join us and come armed with scintillating conversation! Location: Social Sciences 7130 …
January 22 (Friday) at Noon Friday Brown Bag Town Hall Meeting January 29 (Friday) at Noon Tom Broman, UW–Madison “Narratives of Modernity: History of Science in a Post-European World.” February 5 (Friday) at Noon Anna Zeide, Sarah Potratz, and Peter Susalla, UW–Madison “The MA Paper” February 12 (Friday) at Noon James Sweet, History Dept., UW–Madison …
April 2010 The Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards has honored Professor Judith Leavitt for teaching excellence with a Chancellor’s Award. She will receive this award along with nine of her faculty colleagues at a ceremony on April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center. Having taught at UW–Madison since 1975, Leavitt has developed numerous …
“Stalin and His Team: A New Look at Stalinist High Politics” presented by Dr. Sheila Fitzpatrick Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Department of History The University of Chicago Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:00 – 5:30 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Supported by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Islam in West Africa by Sean Hanretta Stanford University Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:30 pm Fluno Center Auditorium, 601 University Ave. Madison
“Living the Revolution: Italian Immigrant Women’s Labor Radicalism and Transnational Feminism.” Jennifer Guglielmo Assistant Professor of History Smith College Monday, April 19, 2010 4:00 PM 126 Memorial Library Jennifer Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of History at Smith College and the author of the just-released Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York …
UW History graduate students Brenna Greer and Holly Y. McGee have won the prestigious Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Brenna and Holly are the first UW students to receive the fellowship and collectively, they received two of the three awards! Congratulations! “The Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship at the …
February 2010 The University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The application deadline in April 9, 2010. The theme for the 2010 applicants is World Citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome projects on the cultural aesthetic, philosophical, …