The 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” ranks UW-Madison’s History Department as #11 for overall Best History Programs. Ranked specialties place the program at #1 for African History, #2 for …
Awards
Professor Mitra Sharafi Receives 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Professor of Law and History Department affiliate Mitra Sharafi on receiving the 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award! “Sharafi links theory to practice and encourages students to think beyond the four walls of the classroom. …
Professor Monica Kim Receives Asian American Studies Book Award
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has received the 2021 Outstanding Achievement in History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies! This is the fourth award that Kim has received for her book, …
Professor Pernille Ipsen Receives Major Danish Literature Prize
Professor Pernille Ipsen has received the Montana Prize for Literature, a major Danish literature prize, for her book Et Åbent Øjeblik: Da mine mødre gjorde noget nyt (An Open Moment: When My Mothers Did Something New)(Gyldendal, …
Professor Monica Kim Receives Top AAS Book Prize
Professor Monica Kim has received the James B. Palais Prize from the Association for Asian Studies for her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press, 2019). The Palais …
UW-Madison History Grad Students Receive Fulbright Awards
UW-Madison was included this year on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Students. Of the thirteen Fulbright recipients from UW-Madison, three are graduate students in our Department …
Giuliana Chamedes Selected as Winner of Vilas Associates Competition
Congratulations to Professor Giuliana Chamedes, who has been selected as one of 23 faculty winners of the 2021 Vilas Associates Competition! The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and …
Professor Hirsch’s Book Receives Distinguished ASIL Award
Congratulations to Professor Francine Hirsch, who has received a 2021 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship from the American Society of International Law! Professor Hirsch received the Certificate of Merit for …
History Professors Receive Grant from Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative
Congratulations to Professors Elizabeth Hennessy and Christy Clark-Pujara, who have received a 5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative for “Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine”! According …
Professor James Sweet Becomes Next President-Elect of AHA
Professor James H. Sweet has been selected as the new President-elect of the American Historical Association. In the 2020 balloting for officers and committee representatives, AHA members voted to elect James Sweet as the next …