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Retirement Celebration in Honor of Professor Emeritus William Cronon

Posted on April 27, 2022

This Saturday, April 30th, Professor Emeritus William Cronon will be back on the UW-Madison campus to participate in “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World,” a day-long conference organized by his former PhD students that …

Posted in 2022, All News, Alumni, History News, Lectures, U.S./North American History

Alumnus Russell King Publishes Book

Posted on April 5, 2022

Congratulations to alumnus Russell King (BA 2002) on the publication of his new book, Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia, out this month from the Chicago Review Press. “In 1981, ambitious …

Posted in 2022, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, South Asian History

Alumnus Mark Solovey Publishes New Book

Posted on March 15, 2022

Congratulations to alumnus Mark Solovey (PhD, 1996) on the publication of his newest book, Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation (MIT Press, 2020). “In …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology

In Memoriam: Alumnus R. Richard “Dick” Wagner

Posted on December 21, 2021

In Memoriam: Alumnus R. Richard “Dick” Wagner The Department of History is sad to share the news that one of our alums, R. Richard “Dick” Wagner (PhD, 1971) passed away unexpectedly on December 12, 2021 …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, History News, Memorials

UW History Alumni & Emeritus Receive WHA Awards

Posted on November 4, 2021

Congratulations to our graduate program alumni, Jennifer Holland (PhD, 2013) and Cori Simon (PhD, 2020), on their awards from the Western Historical Association! At the WHA meeting last week, Jennifer Holland was presented with two …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Awards, Emeriti, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumnus David Harrisville Publishes First Book on WWII German Soldiers on the Eastern Front

Posted on October 29, 2021

Congratulations to alumnus David Harrisville (PhD 2017) on the publication of his first book, The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 (Cornell University Press, 2021). Set to …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Books, European History, History News

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Publishes New Book

Posted on September 27, 2021

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz has a new book published through The University of Chicago Press. Deconstruction: An American Institution is an intellectual history of the deconstruction movement that transformed the humanities during the 20th century. “Deconstruction begins well before …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumnus William Warner Joins AAS Staff

Posted on September 20, 2021

Congratulations to alumnus William Warner (Ph.D. 2017) on becoming the new Membership Manager at the Association for Asian Studies! Warner completed his graduate work in South Asian history here at UW-Madison, and his dissertation (advised by …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, History News, South Asian History

Alumna Geneviève Dorais Publishes New Book

Posted on September 14, 2021

Congratulations to alumna Geneviève Dorais (Ph.D. 2014) on the publication of her new book, Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). “The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) was a Peruvian …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Alumnus John Gripentrog Publishes New Book

Posted on September 13, 2021

Congratulations to alumnus John Gripentrog (Ph.D. 2006) on the publication of his new book, Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919-1941 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). “Reconsidering the origins of World War …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, U.S./North American History
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