This summer, the Department made a post on social media about the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. One of our alumni, Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017), reached out to let us know …
History News
Recent Graduate Sebastian van Bastelaer Has Article Published in Journal of the American Revolution
Newly-minted alumnus Sebastian van Bastelaer (B.A. 2019), recently had part of his senior thesis published as an article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Sebastian graduated from our program this spring with honors in …
Volume 22 of ARCHIVE Now Available Online
ARCHIVE, the University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of History, has recently published their 22nd volume! Editor-in-Chief John Douglas, along with editors Samuel Bertsch, Isabelle Cook, Jack Kelly, Grant Haxton, Hillary Miller, Marissa Miller, Jake Price, …
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer Publishes First Book
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer (PhD, 2011) has recently published her first book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and …
History Graduate Students Release Podcast Interview about “Missionary Photography in Republican China”
History graduate students Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interviewed Joseph Ho for the TransAsia and the World podcast about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photography. …
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 …
Recently Graduated Ph.D. Receives Best Dissertation Award from the Mormon History Association
Since graduating last winter (December 2018), newly minted Ph.D. recipient Dr. Megan Stanton has received the Mormon History Association’s Best Dissertation Award for “All in the Family: Ecclesiastical Authority and Family Theology in The Church …
Forthcoming Book from Alumnus Jacob Blanc
Be on the lookout for good reading material to come later this year! Alumnus Jacob Blanc (Ph.D. 2017), will have his first authored book published in December of 2019. The title is Before the Flood: The …
Alumnus Publishes Piece in Washington Post on 75th Anniversary of D-Day
This week, the world remembers the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. In an effort to commemorate this moment, alumnus and Board of Visitors Emeritus Jeffrey A. Engel (M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2001) has written an opinion …