Congratulations to Professor Lynn Nyhart, who has been appointed a WARF named professorship! “These awards, which come with $100,000, honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities.” Nyhart was one of eleven faculty selected to …
We are proud of our undergraduate majors and wish we could celebrate with them in person. The class of 2020 has demonstrated great resilience and accomplished so much! View our virtual graduation celebration.
The Department of History is proud to announce that Professor Louise Young has been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Professor Young is one of the nearly 250 outstanding individuals to have received this honor for the year 2020. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and …
Alumna Katie Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) has received the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The Louis Gottschalk Prize recognizes an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century. For the year 2020, this prize has been awarded to Katie Jarvis for her book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, …
Anna Zeide (Ph.D. 2014) an alumna and current Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University has received the 2019 award for best Reference, History and Scholarship book from the James Beard Foundation! Zeide won the award for her 2018 book Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (University …
Please join us in congratulating Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, whose most recent book The Ideas that Made America: A Brief History (Oxford University Press, 2019) was featured in the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2019! The listing for the book reads, “Aspiring to do a little of everything, a professor covers various schools …
Professor Nan Enstad has been awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for her recent book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The Beveridge Award is presented for a distinguished book written in the English language on the history of the United States, …
When the History of Science Society handed out its awards and prizes on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at its annual meeting (in Utrecht, Netherlands—the first HSS meeting ever in Europe!), UW–Madison History of Science Ph.D. alumni appeared in force. Michael Osborne (Ph.D. 1987; Professor at Oregon State University) received the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize …
Recently graduated history major Daniel Ahrendt (B.A. December 2018), has received the 2019 Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research from the Center for the Humanities! The Iwanter Prize is an annual award of $2,000 given to a graduating senior who, “through a senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and …
Alumna Angela Ellis (Ph.D. 2010), has received the 2019 President’s Excellence Award for teaching from the University of Albany! Award winners were recognized at a ceremony on May 2nd. Ellis is Lecturer in History at the University of Albany. During her time at UW–Madison, Ellis was advised by Professor Johann Sommerville.