Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in Slavery & Abolition titled “Emancipation without the courts or constitution: the case of Revolutionary Massachusetts.” The essay rethinks the process by which freedom was inaugurated in Massachusetts, …
Gender and Women’s History
Professor Nan Enstad Receives AHA’s Beveridge Award for Cigarettes Inc.
Professor Nan Enstad has been awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for her recent book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The …
Professor Leonora Neville Featured in Byzantium & Friends Podcast
Professor and History Department Chair, Leonora Neville, has been featured on a podcast called Byzantium & Friends, a platform through which scholars and the general public can engage with all things related to Byzantine Studies. …
Professor Leonora Neville Publishes New Book on Byzantine Gender
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 …
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 …
Professor Nan Enstad Featured in Op-ed piece for the Washington Post
Professor Nan Enstad’s new book, Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, was featured in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post. The piece, titled “How Gov. Evers can make Foxconn work for Wisconsin: …
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 …
Tobacco’s World of Racial Capitalism: A Conversation with Nan Enstad
Professor Nan Enstad is the guest on an episode of the biweekly podcast “Edge Effects,” produced by graduate students in the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) who edit the digital magazine …
Emily Callaci and Mitra Sharafi receive summer research support from the NEH
Emily Callaci, assistant professor of history, and Mitra Sharafi, associate professor at the Law School, have been offered Summer Stipend awards by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the first time two UW–Madison …
Kantrowitz-Led Committee Releases Report on the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
After months of research, a study group convened by Chancellor Blank to study the history of racism and exclusion on the UW-Madison campus released its final report. Our own Stephen Kantrowitz co-chaired the committee along …