University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Books

Pablo Gómez Publishes Book: Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

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UW-Madison History Professor Pablo F. Gómez recently published a new book with University of Chicago Press. Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth and early seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-trading societies, where traders, officials, notaries, and ship captains began thinking …

Devin Kennedy Publishes Book: Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy

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UW-Madison History Professor Devin Kennedy recently published a new book, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy, with Columbia University Press. Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After World War II, military officials and their partners in …

Marcella Hayes Receives Award for Forthcoming Book: Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima

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UW-Madison History Professor Marcella Hayes’ forthcoming book, Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima, is already receiving praise. Black Self-Governance has won the 2025 Founder’s Prize for manuscripts in development from the Sixteenth Century Society. The book will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2026. Black people were the …

Brandon Bloch Publishes Book: Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy

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In August 2025, Professor Brandon Bloch published his first book with Harvard University Press, entitled: Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy. The book tells the story of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after World War II, while evading their church’s history of complicity with Nazism. You can find …

Gloria Whiting’s New Book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England continues to receive awards

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In August 2024, Gloria Whiting published her first book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England, which explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery. The book was one of four finalists for the 2025 Frederick Douglass Prize, an annual …

Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards

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Ashley Brown – Associate Professor and Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society – has continued to receive many accolades for her biography of the iconic American tennis player and golfer Althea Gibson. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2023) offers a revealing look at the …

Emily Callaci Publishes Book Wages for House Work

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In February 2025, UW-Madison History Professor Emily Callaci published a new book entitled Wages for House Work: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise. You can find Wages for House Work at Penguin Publishing. Read more about the book and Emily Callaci’s work on this project at The Guardian. Wages for Housework has …

James Sweet Publishes Book: Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

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In January 2025, James Sweet published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Read more here.

Mou Banerjee Publishes Book: The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India

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In January 2025, Harvard University Press published a new book authored by Professor Mou Banerjee: The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India. An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. …

Allison Powers Publishes Book: Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

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In December 2024, UW-Madison History Professor Allison Powers published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Read more here.   Book Awards Allison Powers Useche’s book, Arbitrating Empire, received the 2026 Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the …