Catherine M. Burns (PhD 2011) is the recipient of the 2022 James Phinney Baxter Award for best article in the scholarly journal Maine History. “ ‘It May Be Questionable’: Granger v. Avery and the Redaction …
Awards
Professor Monica Kim Named 2022 MacArthur Fellow
Professor Monica Kim has recently been named a MacArthur Fellow. This “genius grant” fellowship provides an $800,000 stipend for the fellows to use as they see fit. The criteria that are used to select the …
Professor Simon Balto Named a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Professor Simon Balto has recently been named as a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy serves as the hub of the Harvard …
Congratulations to the 2022 Iwanter Prize Winners
The annual Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes graduating seniors who, through the senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrate outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and interdisciplinary nature. This prize is made possible by …
Thongchai Winichakul’s recent book wins the European Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul whose recent book, Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (U Hawaii Press, 2020) has won the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the …
Paige Glotzer’s book Receives Honorable Mention from the International Planning History Society
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received an honorable mention from the International Planning History Society …
Numerous Research Awards Granted to History Graduate Students
Numerous Research Awards Granted to History Graduate Students Congratulations to History graduate students receiving various research awards! Isobel Ashby has received awards from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and American Association for the History …
Congratulations to Graduate Writing Prize Recipients
Congratulations to Graduate Writing Prize Recipients The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental graduate program writing prizes for academic year 2021-2022! Zada Ballew has received the Kate Everest Levi Second-Year …
Congratulations to History Department TA Award Recipients
The Department of History is pleased to announce the recipients of departmental TA awards for academic year 2021-2022! Capstone Teaching Awards Lindsay Ehrisman Zhijun Ren Excellence in Teaching Awards Brigid Nannenhorn Meghan O’Donnell Early Excellence …
Congratulations to Dissertators Receiving Departmental Fellowships
The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following PhD candidates who are receiving UW-Madison Department of History Dissertator Fellowships: James Barnes Josh Doyle-Raso Ayanna Drakos Erin Faigin Emily Hutcheson Michael Kaelin …