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 Afro-American Studies. In the classroom, all three challenge old narratives with different perspectives and insights, as well as diversity. View …
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 History at the University of Notre Dame. “One of the most dramatic images of the French Revolution is of Parisian …
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 Palmer Fellow, conducting his dissertation research on the interwar Polish state’s engagement in colonial ideas and actions. The Hoover Institution, …
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, secularism, and the public sphere, published by the Social Science Research Council. The forum, entitled Science and the Soul: New …
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 humanities professional experience outside of the academy. Jennifer has a nine-month residency with UW–Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art, which is …
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, he could identify only sixty-eight survivors. Analysis of Donat’s early findings—emerging six years prior to the publication of any major …
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 Scholarship Board. Emma will be able to continue research she started under the supervision of Professor Kathryn Ciancia as part …
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 History & Politics seminar
“REVOLUTION LOCALIZED: PORTRAYALS OF TAJIKISTAN IN SOVIET LITERATURE, 1927-1941” MA candidate Nicholas Seay presents his master’s thesis. Thursday, May 3, 2018 4:00-5:30 PM 336 Ingraham Hall
11th Annual Michael B. Petrovich Lecture supported by the Alice D. Mortensen/Petrovich Chair in Russian History “Soviet Americana: or How Russians Learned to Love and Hate America” Sergei I. Zhuk Professor of History, Ball State University April 27th, 2018 4:00-5:30pm DE235 Pyle Center Reception to follow