This summer, the Department made a post on social media about the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. One of our alumni, Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017), reached out to let us know that she had written a report for the Wisconsin State Legislative Reference Bureau on that very topic. We wanted to …
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 the major. His thesis, titled “Paroisses Indociles” (Unruly Parishes): A Reconsideration of Habitant Loyalties and the Historiography of the American …
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 advertising that forged a close association between blackness and Americanness. Greer is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and …
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 University of Albany. During her time at UW–Madison, Ellis was advised by Professor Johann Sommerville.
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 of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.” Stanton received the award at the MHA’s 54th annual conference last week in Salt …
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 Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press), and it focuses on the protest movements of rural …
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 piece for the Washington Post. The article is titled “Lest we forget: The lesson of D-Day for Americans today,” and …
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 selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Powling will be using the grant to support her study abroad at …
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 the history of diplomatic and political relations between Korea and the United States, and the implications of historical treaties and …
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 the history of human rights, transnational networks, Latin America, and international relations. Before starting her position at Harvard, Sharnak worked …