Professor Leonora Neville, a historian of the medieval eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire, has published a new book titled Byzantine Gender (ARC Humanities Press, 2019). “Why were virtuous Byzantine women described as manly? Why were …
European History
Professor Richard Keller Publishes Opinion Piece in Washington Post
Professor Richard Keller had an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on the subject of the recent heat wave in Europe. Keller is a professor in the Department of History, as well as the …
Professor Giuliana Chamedes Publishes First Book
Professor Giuliana Chamedes‘ first book has just been released! A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Harvard University Press, 2019), is the “first comprehensive history of the Vatican’s agenda to defeat the forces of …
Alumna Angela Ellis Receives Teaching Award from University of Albany
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 …
Faculty Receive Vilas Professorships and Awards
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 …
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, …