Kathryn Ciancia’s new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020) is now available. Description: As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an …
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Professor Aaron Rock-Singer Publishes Article on Islamic Religious & Social Movements
Professor Aaron Rock-Singer has a new article in the journal Religions, titled “Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements.” “This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of …
Professor Mou Banerjee Writes About Teaching Colonialism in History
For a roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History, Professor Mou Banerjee has written an introduction focused on “Decolonizing Pedagogy: History as a Reckoning with the Past.” Of her own teaching, Professor Banerjee states: “When I …
Edward Coffman (1931-2020)
Edward McKenzie Coffman, distinguished military historian and revered teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on September 16, 2020, at Thomson-Hood Veteran Center in Wilmore, Kentucky. He was 91. “Mac” Coffman was born in Hopkinsville, …
Welcome New Faculty
Brandon Bloch – Faculty Page I am a historian of modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany and its global entanglements. My research and teaching foreground questions of democracy, citizenship, and human rights. I am …
Professor Francine Hirsch Publishes New Book
Physical copies of the book are now available! Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the International Military Tribunal …
André Wink publishes new book.
In a new accessible narrative, André Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the …
Professor Gloria Whiting Publishes Article in William and Mary Quarterly
Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in the early American history journal, William and Mary Quarterly. Titled “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court,” the …
Richard Sewell (1931-2020)
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Richard Herbert Sewell, aged 89, passed away peacefully at Agrace Hospice. Richard was born April 11, 1931, in Ann Arbor, Mich. to Herbert and Anna (Broene) Sewell. Like them, he …
Thomas J. McCormick (1933 – 2020)
Thomas Joseph McCormick Jr., emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on July 25 at the age of 87. Tom earned his Ph.D. at UW–Madison in 1960, after receiving his Master’s …