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 Professor Emeritus André Wink) focused on “Mobility and Muscle: Afghan Migration and the Frontiers of British India, c. 1800-1947.” Before joining the …
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 political party that played an important role in the development of the Latin American left during the first half of …
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 II in Asia and the Pacific, this book focuses on the diplomatic and cultural interactions between the United States and …
The Department of History is sad to note the passing of alumnus and environmental activist Adam Kolton. Mr. Kolton graduated from UW-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in history and journalism in 1990, and went on to become a Washington-based environmental lobbyist and legislative activist. His notable work includes a quarter-century crusade against industrial development of …
Alumnus Jeffrey Moran (BA in History and Comm Arts, 1988) has published his fourth book, The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition (New York, Bedford Books, 2021). The subject of the book is something he first learned about in one of Professor Emeritus John M. Cooper’s undergraduate courses. Moran attended Harvard University …
Alumnus Paul Grant (Ph.D. 2017) has published his first book, Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2020). According to the publisher’s website: “Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what …
Alumna Vaneesa Cook (Ph.D. 2015) has written a blog post about her work with the Missing in Action Recovery & Identification Project at UW-Madison. The piece is titled “The Legacy of the 5307th Merrill’s Marauders: Wisconsin MIAs in Burma.” The MIA Project is a joint initiative between UW-Madison and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) …
Alumna Tyina Steptoe (Ph.D. 2008) has written a piece on hip-hop and the Black Lives Matter movement for The Conversation, an independent, nonprofit online publisher of commentary and analysis. The piece is titled “Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues.” Steptoe explains the long …
Recent graduate Grace Allen (PhD 2017) had been teaching for the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen when the COVID-19 outbreak began. Since that time, Allen has joined the ranks of instructors at universities around the world who are teaching remotely and entirely online. Holding in place …
Alumna Katie Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) has received the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The Louis Gottschalk Prize recognizes an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century. For the year 2020, this prize has been awarded to Katie Jarvis for her book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, …