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 …
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“The Last Word”, a short essay by Alfred McCoy, published by Columbia College Today
“The Last Word” By Alfred W. McCoy ’68 One glorious afternoon in fall 1965 — the start of my sophomore year — I arrived at Baker Field to find crew practice canceled. Instead of returning …
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, …
Heavy hitter Allan ‘Bud’ Selig tapped as 2018 winter commencement speaker
December’s University of Wisconsin–Madison commencement speaker hopes to knock it out of the ballpark. He certainly knows his way around one. Allan “Bud” Selig, commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, will deliver the charge to …
Britt Tevis (Ph.D. 2016) co-authored an article about the link between antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiments.
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in …
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow
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 …
Katherine Benton-Cohen (Ph.D. 2012) served as historical advisor to Bisbee ‘17
Katherine Benton-Cohen received her PhD from our department in 2002, is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, and recently served as historical advisor to the documentary Bisbee ‘17, which will be playing at Madison …
Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987) has published a new book about foreign political and military intervention in Africa
Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking …
Bailey Albrecht recently won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to Japan for 12 months
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department …
UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account
In celebration of American Archives Month, UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account this morning. They are the Archives’ inaugural Student Historian in Residence. Read more about Rena and …