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Welcome New Faculty

Posted on September 13, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, African History, All News, European History, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Sifting & Reckoning: UW-Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance

Posted on September 12, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Simon Balto Named a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Posted on September 9, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Paige Glotzer Interviewed for ABC News

Posted on August 30, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

Congratulations to the 2022 Iwanter Prize Winners

Posted on August 12, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, History News

Professor Tom Broman Announces Wisconsin 101’s New Website

Posted on August 12, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, History News

Professor Ashley Brown Interviewed for Germany’s WDR TV Station

Posted on July 11, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

Thongchai Winichakul’s recent book wins the European Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize

Posted on July 11, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, Books, Emeriti, History News, Southeast Asian History

Paige Glotzer’s book Receives Honorable Mention from the International Planning History Society

Posted on July 11, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, History News, U.S./North American History

Numerous Research Awards Granted to History Graduate Students

Posted on July 8, 2022

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 …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, History News
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