Newly-minted alumnus Sebastian van Bastelaer (B.A. 2019), recently had part of his senior thesis published as an article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Sebastian graduated from our program this spring with honors in …
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Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer Publishes First Book
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer (PhD, 2011) has recently published her first book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and …
Alumna Angela Ellis Receives Teaching Award from University of Albany
Alumna Angela Ellis (Ph.D. 2010), has received the 2019 President’s Excellence Award for teaching from the University of Albany! Award winners were recognized at a ceremony on May 2nd. Ellis is Lecturer in History at the …
Recently Graduated Ph.D. Receives Best Dissertation Award from the Mormon History Association
Since graduating last winter (December 2018), newly minted Ph.D. recipient Dr. Megan Stanton has received the Mormon History Association’s Best Dissertation Award for “All in the Family: Ecclesiastical Authority and Family Theology in The Church …
Forthcoming Book from Alumnus Jacob Blanc
Be on the lookout for good reading material to come later this year! Alumnus Jacob Blanc (Ph.D. 2017), will have his first authored book published in December of 2019. The title is Before the Flood: The …
Alumnus Publishes Piece in Washington Post on 75th Anniversary of D-Day
This week, the world remembers the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. In an effort to commemorate this moment, alumnus and Board of Visitors Emeritus Jeffrey A. Engel (M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2001) has written an opinion …
Undergraduate History Major Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant
Beck Powling, a rising UW-Madison senior majoring in History, has been awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant! This award is given by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi – the nation’s oldest and most …
Alumnus David Fields has Article Published in Washington Post
Alumnus David Fields (Ph.D. 2017), recently had an article published in the Washington Post. The article is titled “How Korea was divided and why the aftershocks still haunt us today.” In the piece, Fields discusses …
Alumna Debbie Sharnak Receives Teaching Award from Harvard
Alumna Debbie Sharnak (Ph.D. 2017), currently a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University, has recently won Harvard’s 2019 Stephen Botein Prize for Excellence in Teaching! Sharnak’s research and teaching cover topics such as …
History Major Hilary Miller Selected for Prestigious Fellowship with the UN Watch
Hilary Miller, a History and Political Science major who graduated this spring, will soon be heading off to Geneva, Switzerland to work with the UN Watch, a nonprofit that monitors the United Nations and promotes …