Anna Zeide (Ph.D. 2014) an alumna and current Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University has received the 2019 award for best Reference, History and Scholarship book from the James Beard Foundation! Zeide won …
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Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Published in the Journal Rethinking History
Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz (Ph.D. 2016), has published an article in the journal Rethinking History. The article rereads French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s 1988 Critical Inquiry essay on literary critic and literary theorist Paul de Man’s collaborationist articles and …
History Alumn Writes About the Humanities in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Alumna Karen Spierling (Ph.D. 2001), an Associate Professor of History at Denison University, has written a piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “The Humanities Must Go on the Offensive.” In the article, Spierling …
Alumnus Sam Gee Publishes Review Essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Recent graduate Sam Gee (B.A. in History and Religious Studies, 2017) has published a review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay covers a recent biography of the prominent twentieth-century Austrian philosopher …
Recent Graduate Ryan Smazal Working on Underwater Archaeology
The 2018 issue of “The Past in the Present” featured Ryan Smazal (History/Political Science, 2019) and his summer internship with WHS’s Maritime Preservation/Maritime Archeology Program. As part of his work that summer, he was certified …
Alumna Vaneesa Cook Publishes Spiritual Socialists
Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls “spiritual socialism.” …
UW History of Science Ph.D.s garner awards!
When the History of Science Society handed out its awards and prizes on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at its annual meeting (in Utrecht, Netherlands—the first HSS meeting ever in Europe!), UW-Madison History of Science Ph.D. …
Historic History Alumna is Subject of On Wisconsin Magazine Article
One of our program’s oldest alumni, Jenny Morrill (M.A. 1905) is the subject of a recently published article in On Wisconsin about a mysterious book theft that occurred at UW-Madison libraries over 100 years ago. …
Recent Graduate Daniel Ahrendt (B.A. December 2018) Receives Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research
Recently graduated history major Daniel Ahrendt (B.A. December 2018), has received the 2019 Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research from the Center for the Humanities! The Iwanter Prize is an annual award of $2,000 given to …
Alumnus Colin Palmer, Historian of the African Diaspora, Passes Away
The History Department will remember Dr. Colin Palmer (Ph.D. 1970), who passed away on June 20, 2019 in Kingston, Jamaica. An alumnus of our program and a giant in his field, Palmer helped to expand …