UW–Madison Emeritus Professor Gregg Mitman received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption, one of the highest honors conferred by the Republic of Liberia. The distinguished honor was given by the President of the Republic of Liberia in a ceremony on July 24, 2025, celebrating the country’s 178th Independence Day. The award …
The Financial Times recognized Professor Emerita of History, UW–Madison Colleen Dunlavy’s Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse one of the best summer books of 2024. Small, Medium, and Large explores the history of mass production and distribution with novel questions about the standardization of sizes for everyday consumer items. …
Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul has been awarded the 2023 Fukuoka Grand Prize. The Fukuoka Prize was established in 1990 to honor the outstanding work of individuals, groups, and organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse cultures of Asia. The prize aims to foster and increase awareness of the value of Asian cultures, and …
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 European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize is awarded to the best academic book on Southeast …
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear for winning the American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize for the best reference work published over the last five years! The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources are a collection of over 75 critical studies of the methods and sources historians use to research and write African …
Congratulations to our graduate program alumni, Jennifer Holland (PhD, 2013) and Cori Simon (PhD, 2020), on their awards from the Western Historical Association! At the WHA meeting last week, Jennifer Holland was presented with two book awards, the David J. Weber Prize and the W. Turrentine Jackson Award for Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement …
Stanley Kenton “Stan” Schultz, age 82, passed away at his home in Middleton, Wis., on Dec. 8, 2020. Stan was born on July 12, 1938, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Kenton Schultz and Virginia Pyle Schultz. He always considered Los Angeles his home. Everywhere else he lived, no matter how long, he was “just passing …
Edward McKenzie Coffman, distinguished military historian and revered teacher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on September 16, 2020, at Thomson-Hood Veteran Center in Wilmore, Kentucky. He was 91. “Mac” Coffman was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on January 27, 1929, to Howard Beverly Coffman (1895-1972) and Mada Pearl Wright Coffman (1894-1953). He attended the University …
In a new accessible narrative, André Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world, he argues that the …
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Richard Herbert Sewell, aged 89, passed away peacefully at Agrace Hospice. Richard was born April 11, 1931, in Ann Arbor, Mich. to Herbert and Anna (Broene) Sewell. Like them, he attended the University of Michigan and in 1953 graduated with an honors degree in history. In 1964, he was awarded …