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 …
Awards
Emily Callaci and Mitra Sharafi receive summer research support from the NEH
Emily Callaci, assistant professor of history, and Mitra Sharafi, associate professor at the Law School, have been offered Summer Stipend awards by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the first time two UW–Madison …
Emma Strenski, senior History major, receives Fulbright Award
Congratulations to senior History major Emma Strenski!! Emma has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Modern History from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign …
Caitlin Tyler-Richards wins Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship
Caitlin Tyler-Richards, History PhD candidate in African History, has won a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at the University of Washington Press for 2018-2019. This prestigious fellowship will allow Caitlin to continue work on her …
Scott Burkhardt wins L&S Academic Advising Award
Our undergraduate advisor extraordinaire, Scott Burkhardt, has just won this year’s L&S Academic Advising Award. UW-Madison College of Letters & Science gives out only two awards per year – one for faculty, one for staff. …
Kate Wersan wins the Leopold-Hidy Prize
Congratulations to Kate Wersan, who has won the American Society for Environmental History’s 2017 Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. Her article, “The Early Melon and the Mechanical Gardener: Toward an Environmental History …
David McDonald chosen to receive Distinguished Teaching Award
David McDonald has been chosen to receive a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!! In his nearly 30-year teaching career at UW-Madison Prof. McDonald has guided students through topics ranging from Imperial Russia to baseball in the …
The Society for Military History recognizes Chad Gibbs
The Society for Military History recognized Chad Gibbs for his paper “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” with an honorable mention for the Carroll Award for best graduate …
Latest book Lynn Nyhart co-edited with Scott Lidgardlisted is among “Choice’s” 2017 list of Outstanding Academic Titles
The latest book Lynn Nyhart co-edited with Scott Lidgardlisted, Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, 2017), is among “Choice’s” 2017 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Every year in the …
Congratulations to the 2017 ‘Outstanding Women of Color!’
Christy Clark-Pujara is one of six being recognized as 2017’s “Outstanding Women of Color” on February 22, 2018. Read the full article on UW-Madison’s Creating Community website.