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 …
The University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. The work highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The women’s health movement …
Professor Claire Taylor has been awarded an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. The Romnes Fellowship recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes. “My current main project is a feminist economic history …
Ashley Brown, Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society and Assistant Professor History, has written a brief article for History.com. “How Althea Gibson Faced Racial Barriers–Even as a Tennis Champion” was published on March 1. Gibson is the subject of Professor Brown’s new book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of …
On February 14th, Professor Ashley Brown was interviewed by her former student Ethan Bacon for a Big Ten Network feature on George Coleman Poage, first African-American athlete to win an Olympic medal and a UW–Madison History alumnus. Poage was born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1880 and moved with his family to La Crosse, Wisconsin at a …
Professor Gloria Whiting has received the Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History for her article, “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court.” This prize is awarded annually for the best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar during the …
Professor Mou Banerjee has been interviewed by Channel 3000 News about the current situation happening in Afghanistan. Banerjee lends a historical perspective to the Taliban’s role in Afghanistan, discusses the role of Sharia law, and offers some clarification on common misconceptions surrounding the relationship between the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Watch the full interview at …
Writing in JOTWELL, a journal that celebrates “the best new scholarship relevant to the law,” historian Allison Madar (University of Oregon) highlighted Professor Gloria Whiting’s 2020 article from The William & Mary Quarterly titled, “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court.” Madar praised the work both …
Congratulations to Professor Marla Ramírez on receiving a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant ($120,000 over 3 years) for her project, “Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative.” The Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment is a competitive grant program that honors the legacy of Ineva Reilly Baldwin and Ira Baldwin by funding projects that foster public engagement and the advancement of the Wisconsin Idea. …
Professor Mary Lou Roberts has a new book titled, Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII (University of Chicago Press, 2021). According to the publisher’s website, “Sheer Misery trains a humane and unsparing eye on the corporeal experiences of the soldiers who fought in Belgium, France, and Italy during the last two years of the war. …