Pablo Gómez’s book The Experiential Caribbean ( University of North Carolina Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Honorable Mention of the Bolton-Johnson Prize for the best book in Latin American History by the Conference on Latin American History …
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Undergraduate History Major, Hillary Miller, Presented at Annual AHA Meeting
Senior History major Hilary Miller presented “When Terror Took Out the Count: Evaluating Israel’s Response to the Assassination of U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte” in the American Historical Association’s Undergraduate Research Lightning Round on Friday, January …
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Releases New Book
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, has just been released this week by Oxford University Press. The book examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period …
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 …
Alumna Katie Jarvis Publishes New Book
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 …
Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball Bud Selig (B.A. 1956) Delivers Winter Commencement Speech
On Sunday, December 16th, the winter graduates of 2018 and 6,700 guests packed the seats of the Kohl Center and listened to Alan H, “Bud” Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball and class of …
Alumnus David Gilbert Nominated for Grammy Award
History alumnus David Gilbert (Ph.D. 2011) is up for a Grammy Award! He is nominated in the category of Best Album Notes for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese …
Publication from Goldberg Center Book Series Awarded Prize from the American Historical Association
The book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, published as part of The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History with University of Wisconsin Press has just received the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the …
Retiring Faculty Member, John Sharpless, Featured on Front Page of Wisconsin State Journal
After 43 years of teaching, Professor John Sharpless will be retiring at the end of this month. Professor Sharpless has taught American history and political history at UW-Madison since 1975. Some of his former students …