Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made a significant impact …
Awards
Gregg Mitman Awarded Distinguished Civilian Honor by the Republic of Liberia
UW-Madison Emeritus Professor Gregg Mitman received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption, one of the highest honors conferred by the Republic of Liberia. The distinguished honor was given by the President …
Marcella Hayes Receives Award for Forthcoming Book: Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima
UW-Madison History Professor Marcella Hayes’ forthcoming book, Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima, is already receiving praise. Black Self-Governance has won the 2025 Founder’s Prize for manuscripts in development from the …
Louise Young Receives WARF Named Professorship
Louise Young, the Marilyn B. Young Professor of History at UW–Madison, has been honored with a 2025-26 WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) Named Professorship, a prestigious award that recognizes faculty who have made major contributions …
Stephen Kantrowitz Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Southern Denmark
In fall 2025, Professor Stephen Kantrowitz, the Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History at UW-Madison, was nominated for an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark. The honorary …
Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards
Ashley Brown – Associate Professor and Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society – has continued to receive many accolades for her biography of the iconic American tennis player and golfer …
Professor Emeritus Colleen Dunlavy’s Book Named Among Best Books of Summer 2024 by Financial Times
The Financial Times recognized Professor Emerita of History, UW-Madison Colleen Dunlavy’s Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse one of the best summer books of 2024. Small, Medium, and Large …
Sasha Maria Suarez Recognized with Exceptional Service Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Sasha Suarez who was awarded an Exceptional Service Award! This award recognizes Sasha for her considerable community-facing and university service while also maintaining a high level of research and creative productivity.
Neil Kodesh receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Neil Kodesh was one of thirteen faculty members chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. This honor recognizes exemplary achievements in teaching, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the …
John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or …