Four faculty members have received Vilas Professorships and Awards this year! Professor Francine Hirsch (Russian & European History) received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as outstanding efforts in …
European History
Emeritus Professor William J. Courtenay Publishes New Book
Professor Emeritus William J. Courtenay has published a new book on religious life at the medieval University of Paris. The book is titled Rituals for the Dead: Religion and Community in the Medieval University of …
L&S Newsletter Publishes Article on Professors Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville
Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in the Department of …
Alumna Katie Jarvis Publishes New Book
Oxford University Press has released alumna Katie Jarvis’s book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Katie Jarvis received her Ph.D. from UW-Madison in 2014 and is currently Assistant Professor of …
Ph.D. Candidate Piotr Puchalski Featured on Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Website
Piotr Puchalski is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at UW-Madison (advised by Kathryn Ciancia). His research was recently featured on the website of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he is currently a Silas …
Dan Stolz’s book featured on Social Science Research Council forum
Professor Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018), was featured in a book forum on The Immanent Frame, an interdisciplinary web journal on religion, …
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities. The fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are designed to give graduate students in the …
Article – “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” by Chad S.A. Gibbs
In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, …
Emma Strenski, senior History major, receives Fulbright Award
Congratulations to senior History major Emma Strenski!! Emma has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Modern History from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign …
Roundtable – European Antisemitism
The state of the field on European antisemitism Hosted by Renato Moro and John Connolly Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:00 PM Curt Lounge (Rm 5233 Mosse Humanities Bldg.) Co-sponsored by the Mosse Program and the …