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John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association
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 …
NBA Star Devin Harris Returns to Graduate 20 Years Later
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 …
History Alumnus Nils Peterson Receives Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
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 …
Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book
Alum Tamara Feinstein (Ph.D., 2013) recently published a new book titled, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. Description: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on …
Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams Publishes New Book
Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams (Ph.D. 1972) published his two-volume work Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End in February of this year. Description: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over …
Alum Sinae Hyun Publishes New Book
Former Ph.D. student Sinae Hyun recently published a new book titled Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2023). Description The Border Patrol Police (BPP) of …
Alumnus Daniel G. Hummel Publishes New Book
Former Ph.D. student Daniel G. Hummel recently published a new book titled The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023). …
Kate Jarvis (Ph.D., 2014) Publishes New Book
Kate Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) published a new book titled Politics in the Markets: Work, gender, and citizenship in revolutionary France at the University Press of Rennes. From the editor: This book mobilizes politics, economics and …
Farha Tahir Named Forward Award Recipient
Farha Tahir, History, Political Science, and International Public Affairs graduate ‘09 and member of the History Department Board of Visitors, was named a 2023 Forward Award Recipient. The Forward Award acknowledges rising stars in various …