Modern Language Association of America has announced that it would be awarding David A. Chang (Ph.D. 2002) with its third MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. David Chang is a professor of history at University of Minnesota, and his research focuses on indigenous peoples, colonialism, as well as borders and …
Christine Lamberson (PhD, 2012) was featured in October’s issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association for her work conducting oral history interviews with veterans in West Texas. She co-authored an article on the project with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai. Both Lamberson and Wongsrichanalai are associate professors in the Department of History at …
UW History alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) served as translator of an updated, English-language edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s 1999 book, Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – in the publisher’s words, “an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women” in World War II. The meaning …
December’s University of Wisconsin–Madison commencement speaker hopes to knock it out of the ballpark. He certainly knows his way around one. Allan “Bud” Selig, commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, will deliver the charge to graduates on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Kohl Center. Selig is no stranger to campus. He earned a bachelor’s degree …
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The attack occurred during Shabbat services and during a bris, a celebration of a newborn life. Immediately before the …
Katherine Benton-Cohen received her PhD from our department in 2002, is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, and recently served as historical advisor to the documentary Bisbee ‘17, which will be playing at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art next Wednesday 10/24! A Q&A with Professor Benton-Cohen will follow. The documentary tells the story of …
Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. Although conflicts in contemporary Africa have emerged …
In celebration of American Archives Month, UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account this morning. They are the Archives’ inaugural Student Historian in Residence. Read more about Rena and their work for the Archives here. October has been celebrated as American Archives Month since 2006, an initiative of the …
Each year on Constitution Day (September 17), David Fields (UW-Madison Department of History, Ph.D., 2017) and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution (CSAC) likes to call attention to the fact that the entire corpus (to date) of the monumental Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (DHRC) is available online for free. …
The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living US poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada is awarded the prize in recognition of his contribution to poetry. He is the first Latino poet to win this award since its inception in 1986. The …