The Business History Conference has awarded the 2018 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History to Dr. Rachel Gross (Ph.D. 2017) (https://rachel-gross.com/). Enterprise and Society published a summary of the project, “From …
Awards
Catherine Jackson awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award
Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise …
Bailey Albrecht recently won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to Japan for 12 months
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department …
Pablo F. Gómez Wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize
Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize Official Press Release Indianapolis, Indiana– University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential …
UW History alum Martín Espada recognized with Distinguished Lifetime Achievement award for poetry
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 …
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 …