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Katherine Benton-Cohen (Ph.D. 2012) served as historical advisor to Bisbee ‘17

Posted on October 22, 2018

Katherine Benton-Cohen received her PhD from our department in 2002, is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, and recently served as historical advisor to the documentary Bisbee ‘17, which will be playing at Madison …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News

Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987) has published a new book about foreign political and military intervention in Africa

Posted on October 19, 2018

Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking …

Posted in 2018, African History, Alumni, Books, History News

Bailey Albrecht recently won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to Japan for 12 months

Posted on October 18, 2018

Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department …

Posted in 2018, All News, Awards, East Asian History, History News

UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account

Posted on October 18, 2018

In celebration of American Archives Month, UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account this morning. They are the Archives’ inaugural Student Historian in Residence. Read more about Rena and …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History course is featured in OnWisconsin

Posted on October 9, 2018

For the sake of learning — and with occasional family healing — a UW history course is asking students to turn their parents into historical subjects. Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History 221 course, The History of …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, U.S./North American History

Article – “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” by Chad S.A. Gibbs

Posted on October 8, 2018

In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, …

Posted in 2018, All News, European History, History News, Jewish History, War in Society and Culture

Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research in Kibale National Forest

Posted on October 5, 2018

With the support of an IRIS Incubator Grant and a Holtz Center Thematic Cluster Grant, Neil Kodesh (History),  Tony Goldberg (Pathobiological Sciences),  and Josh Garoon (Community and Environmental Sociology) initiated a collaborative research cluster from 2016-18 on Mapping Hot …

Posted in 2018, African History, All News, History News

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Project

Posted on September 25, 2018

Each year on Constitution Day (September 17), David Fields (UW-Madison Department of History, Ph.D., 2017) and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution (CSAC) likes to call attention to the fact that the entire …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

Pablo F. Gómez Wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize

Posted on August 23, 2018

Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize Official Press Release Indianapolis, Indiana– University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential …

Posted in 2018, All News, Awards, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Article – “The politics of a natural laboratory: Claiming territory and governing life in the Galápagos Islands” by Elizabeth Hennessy

Posted on August 2, 2018

The Galápagos Islands are often called a natural laboratory of evolution. This metaphor provides a powerful way of understanding space that, through scientific research, conservation and tourism, has shaped the archipelago over the past century. …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History
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