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 Paper Prize. The Kate Everest Levi Prize is given for outstanding second-year papers. Alex Scheepens has received the Paul J. …
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 Teaching Awards Ludwig Decke Joseph Hanauer Francisco Hernández Moleres Brandon Nakashima Alex Paradowski Emma Wathen
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 Samm Newton Thomas Rider Bree Romero Leslie Sabakinu Patrick Walsh
Congratulations to Dissertators Receiving External Fellowships The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology dissertators who are receiving external fellowships: Patrick Walsh has received the American Philosophical Society John C. Slater Fellowship. Samm Newton has received the Knauss Fellowship from the National Oceanic …
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has been selected as a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW–Madison. Funded by the College of Letters & Science and the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, the Summer Humanities Research Fellowship program supports tenured faculty at …
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 the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. The Lewis Mumford Prize is awarded for the best book on American city and regional planning …
Congratulations to the Department of History’s Graduate Program Manager, Leslie Abadie, on receiving the 2022 L&S Graduate Student Academic Advising Excellence Award! Leslie was honored for the award at a ceremony on April 27th. According to the award announcement: “Leslie Abadie received glowing letters of praise from several colleagues who have served or are currently …
This weekend, thousands of Badgers will earn their degrees at UW–Madison Commencement. In anticipation of the commencement proceedings, UW–Madison highlighted several graduates with unique accomplishments to share, and three of them will be receiving their degrees in History. The first is Susan Kay Baker. Susan is a returning student earning her bachelor’s degree in history following …
The submission period is now open for the George L. Mosse First Book Prize! The prize was established in 2020 to honor George L. Mosse’s commitment to scholarship and to mentoring new generations of historians. Winning books are published as part of the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas with the University of …
Congratulations to graduate students Zada Ballew and Christopher Hulshof on receiving 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards! Zada received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award, while Christopher received the Exceptional Service Award. The Early Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance on the part of TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience. The Exceptional Service Award recognizes TAs …