The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Khaled Esseissah, Michael Martoccio, and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo! Khaled Esseissah joins us as a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with …
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Sifting & Reckoning: UW-Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance
From September 12 through December 23, 2022, the Chazen Museum of Art will be displaying the Public History Project’s premiere exhibition titled Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance. The exhibition spans over …
Professor Simon Balto Named a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Professor Simon Balto has recently been named as a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy serves as the hub of the Harvard …
Professor Paige Glotzer Interviewed for ABC News
Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed by ABC News about housing discrimination in Baltimore. A Black couple’s home value rose nearly $300K after it was shown by a White colleague. Professor Glotzer discusses the origins of …
Congratulations to the 2022 Iwanter Prize Winners
The annual Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes graduating seniors who, through the senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrate outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and interdisciplinary nature. This prize is made possible by …
Professor Tom Broman Announces Wisconsin 101’s New Website
The premiere of Wisconsin 101’s new website comes with a huge sigh of relief. In a small way, creating a new website resembles building a new house. You begin with a few notions of what …
Professor Ashley Brown Interviewed for Germany’s WDR TV Station
Professor Ashley Brown participated in an extensive interview about athlete Althea Gibson for Germany’s WDR TV Station (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). The subject of this interview, Althea Gibson, is also the subject of Ashley Brown’s book which …
Thongchai Winichakul’s recent book wins the European Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul whose recent book, Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (U Hawaii Press, 2020) has won the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the …
Paige Glotzer’s book Receives Honorable Mention from the International Planning History Society
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received an honorable mention from the International Planning History Society …
Numerous Research Awards Granted to History Graduate Students
Numerous Research Awards Granted to History Graduate Students Congratulations to History graduate students receiving various research awards! Isobel Ashby has received awards from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and American Association for the History …