Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls “spiritual socialism.” …
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Professor Elizabeth Hennessy Publishes New Book, On the Backs of Tortoises
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world. The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine …
Professor Nan Enstad Receives AHA’s Beveridge Award for Cigarettes Inc.
Professor Nan Enstad has been awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for her recent book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The …
History 300 Visits the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives
Professor Sarah Thal and her students from History 300: History at Work, took a trip to the Wisconsin Historical Society as part of their class. Lisa Saywell, Director of Public Services, gave the students a …
Professor Leonora Neville Featured in Byzantium & Friends Podcast
Professor and History Department Chair, Leonora Neville, has been featured on a podcast called Byzantium & Friends, a platform through which scholars and the general public can engage with all things related to Byzantine Studies. …
Ph.D. Candidate Tyler Lehrer Publishes Article in Buddhist Studies Review
Tyler A. Lehrer, a graduate student in the Department of History at UW-Madison, has just published his first peer-reviewed article in Buddhist Studies Review. The article “Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka’s Contemporary BhikkunOrdination Dispute,” …
Ph.D. Candidate Jennifer Stitt Publishes New Article on Rachel Carson
Current Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Stitt, who studies U.S. intellectual and cultural history, has published a new piece in the digital magazine Aeon. Her article is titled “For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of …
Kacie Lucchini Butcher Leads New Public History Project at UW
The Department of History is proud to welcome Kacie Lucchini Butcher, a public historian with a background in museum studies and exhibit curation, as the new Director of the Public History Project at UW-Madison! The …
Professor Leonora Neville Publishes New Book on Byzantine Gender
Professor Leonora Neville, a historian of the medieval eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire, has published a new book titled Byzantine Gender (ARC Humanities Press, 2019). “Why were virtuous Byzantine women described as manly? Why were …
History Major Publishes Object Study for Wisconsin 101
Congratulations to History major Jane Genske, an intern with Wisconsin 101 and WPR this summer, who recently aired her first piece: a short history of Babcock Dairy through the lens of an ice cream carton! …