Two of our History majors, Piper Brown-Kingsley and Claire Hitter, have been George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Interns for the past several months, working at Wisconsin Historical Society and listening to oral history interviews from Wisconsin’s Jewish Community. They’ve both released blog posts with interesting insights from their research and experience. Read more about their work. Piper …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has an article published today in the Washington Post, titled “The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life.” Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen specializes in U.S. intellectual history at UW–Madison. For the full article, click the link here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/24/shutdown-is-trumps-ultimate-attack-intellectuals/?utm_term=.e854638953ef
The College of Letters and Science and the Wisconsin School of Business have approved a First Year Interest Group that Professor Paige Glotzer will lead, called Capitalism and America. The FIG is part of a UW–Madison National Endowment for the Humanities grant that recognizes how undergraduate business majors become better critical thinkers and more effective writers …
Pablo Gómez’s book The Experiential Caribbean ( University of North Carolina Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Honorable Mention of the Bolton-Johnson Prize for the best book in Latin American History by the Conference on Latin American History at the AHA meeting in Chicago this month. The book has also received the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize …
Senior History major Hilary Miller presented “When Terror Took Out the Count: Evaluating Israel’s Response to the Assassination of U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte” in the American Historical Association’s Undergraduate Research Lightning Round on Friday, January 4, 2019. The session was scheduled from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in the Buckingham Room at the Hilton Chicago on the …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, has just been released this week by Oxford University Press. The book examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period to the present day by delving into ideas, thinkers, and intellectual movements. “Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, …
Professor Nan Enstad’s new book, Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, was featured in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post. The piece, titled “How Gov. Evers can make Foxconn work for Wisconsin: the key to good corporate citizenship,” commented on the 2017 Foxconn deal, which promises a $4.7 billion subsidy to the …
Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in the Department of Afro-American Studies. In the classroom, all three challenge old narratives with different perspectives and insights, as well as diversity. View …
Oxford University Press has released alumna Katie Jarvis’s book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Katie Jarvis received her Ph.D. from UW–Madison in 2014 and is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. “One of the most dramatic images of the French Revolution is of Parisian …
On Sunday, December 16th, the winter graduates of 2018 and 6,700 guests packed the seats of the Kohl Center and listened to Alan H, “Bud” Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball and class of 1956 History and Political Science major, deliver the keynote commencement speech. Selig gave graduates some guiding advice: “Regardless of the …