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 …
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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, …
Heavy hitter Allan ‘Bud’ Selig tapped as 2018 winter commencement speaker
December’s University of Wisconsin–Madison commencement speaker hopes to knock it out of the ballpark. He certainly knows his way around one. Allan “Bud” Selig, commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, will deliver the charge to …
Britt Tevis (Ph.D. 2016) co-authored an article about the link between antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiments.
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in …
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities. The fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are designed to give graduate students in the …