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 …
Awards
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 …
History Alumnus Nils Peterson Receives Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Recent alumnus Nils Peterson has been awarded a 2024 Marshall Scholarship. This prestigious honor gives high-achieving young Americans the opportunity to study at the graduate level at any university in the United Kingdom. Nils will …
Grad Student Verenize Arceo Receives Two WHA Awards
Congratulations to graduate student Verenize Arceo, who has received two awards from the Western History Association! Verenize received the 2023 WHA Graduate Student Prize and the 2023 Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship. The WHA Graduate Student Prize …
Professor Ashley Brown Receives Book Award for Althea Gibson Biography
The Association of Black Women Historians has awarded its 2023 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize to Professor Ashley Brown for her book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. Bestowed since 1984, the …
Pablo Gómez Awarded NEH Collaborative Grant
Professor Pablo Gomez, in collaboration with Adriana Chira from Emory University, was awarded a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative grant for his project “Value, Self-Worth, and the Market in the Black …
Professor Marla Ramirez Won the Oral History Association’s Article Award
Professor Marla Ramirez won the Oral History Association’s Article Award for her essay titled, “Gendered banishment: Rewriting Mexican repatriation through a transgenerational oral history methodology.” This award was created to recognize an article or essay …
Farha Tahir Named Forward Award Recipient
Farha Tahir, History, Political Science, and International Public Affairs graduate ‘09 and member of the History Department Board of Visitors, was named a 2023 Forward Award Recipient. The Forward Award acknowledges rising stars in various …