Christine Lamberson (PhD, 2012) was featured in October’s issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association for her work conducting oral history interviews with veterans in West Texas. She co-authored an …
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“Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” essay by Al McCoy
Al McCoy’s essay, “Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” is featured on TomDispatch.com “As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take …
Catherine Jackson awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award
Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise …
Ph.D. Candidate Piotr Puchalski Featured on Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Website
Piotr Puchalski is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at UW-Madison (advised by Kathryn Ciancia). His research was recently featured on the website of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he is currently a Silas …
Graduate Student Erin Faigin Has Book Review Published
Graduate student Erin Faigin recently had a book review published in Marginalia, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Faigin reviewed Shari Rabin’s book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America …
UW History Alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) Translates English Edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s Book
UW History alum Jason Morgan (Ph.D. 2016) served as translator of an updated, English-language edition of Hata Ikuhiko’s 1999 book, Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – …
Paige Glotzer awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Paige Glotzer, who was just awarded the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award! This award means that she will have the opportunity to workshop her manuscript this spring with …
Tobacco’s World of Racial Capitalism: A Conversation with Nan Enstad
Professor Nan Enstad is the guest on an episode of the biweekly podcast “Edge Effects,” produced by graduate students in the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) who edit the digital magazine …
“The Last Word”, a short essay by Alfred McCoy, published by Columbia College Today
“The Last Word” By Alfred W. McCoy ’68 One glorious afternoon in fall 1965 — the start of my sophomore year — I arrived at Baker Field to find crew practice canceled. Instead of returning …
Dan Stolz’s book featured on Social Science Research Council forum
Professor Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018), was featured in a book forum on The Immanent Frame, an interdisciplinary web journal on religion, …