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 human rights. Miller received this opportunity through the prestigious Morris B. Abram Fellowship, which is a one-year position in which …
Congratulations to the eleven graduate students that completed their PhD in History this year! The graduates were recognized at a reception on May 10th at the University Club. The names of the graduates, along with their advisors and dissertation titles, are as follows: Brendon George, advised by Professor Susan Lee Johnson – “Mile High Metropole: …
Alumnus Tom Rademacher (BA, 2017) recently had his senior honors thesis published in volume 25 of The Mining History Journal – the peer reviewed, scholarly journal of the Mining History Association. Rademacher’s thesis is titled, Wisconsin Sand and Gravel Mining: From Nineteenth-Century Gravel Pits to Twenty-First Century Frac Sand Mines. During his time in the …
Congratulations to alumnus David Blight (Ph.D. 1985), who has just won the Pulitzer Prize in History! Blight, Professor of History at Yale, was recognized for his most recent book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018). According to the Pulitzer Prize website, this book is “a breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass’ …
History alumnus Ryan Quintana (Ph.D. 2010) was recently featured in an episode of the podcast Ben Franklin’s World! In the episode, he discusses the creation and development of early republic South Carolina through concepts of “space,” the ways in which Black Carolinians helped secure South Carolina’s independence, and how Black Carolinians helped build South Carolina’s …
Recently retired, Professor Emeritus John Sharpless was featured in an article from the Isthmus, discussing his time teaching at UW–Madison. “’I think it’s more about how I treated students generally,’ says Sharpless, 73, who gave his final lecture on December 11, 2018. ‘I treated them as adults whose opinions should be respected and I was always …
Two of our History majors, Piper Brown-Kingsley and Claire Hitter, have been George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Interns for the past several months, working at Wisconsin Historical Society and listening to oral history interviews from Wisconsin’s Jewish Community. They’ve both released blog posts with interesting insights from their research and experience. Read more about their work. Piper …
Oxford University Press has released alumna Katie Jarvis’s book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Katie Jarvis received her Ph.D. from UW–Madison in 2014 and is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. “One of the most dramatic images of the French Revolution is of Parisian …
On Sunday, December 16th, the winter graduates of 2018 and 6,700 guests packed the seats of the Kohl Center and listened to Alan H, “Bud” Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball and class of 1956 History and Political Science major, deliver the keynote commencement speech. Selig gave graduates some guiding advice: “Regardless of the …
History alumnus David Gilbert (Ph.D. 2011) is up for a Grammy Award! He is nominated in the category of Best Album Notes for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra. The notes are based on his book, The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth …