Congratulations to senior History major Emma Strenski!! Emma has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Modern History from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign …
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Caitlin Tyler-Richards wins Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship
Caitlin Tyler-Richards, History PhD candidate in African History, has won a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at the University of Washington Press for 2018-2019. This prestigious fellowship will allow Caitlin to continue work on her …
Kantrowitz-Led Committee Releases Report on the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
After months of research, a study group convened by Chancellor Blank to study the history of racism and exclusion on the UW-Madison campus released its final report. Our own Stephen Kantrowitz co-chaired the committee along …
Charles Cohen gives talk in Milwaukee
Badger Café: “Jews and Muslims in Christian America” Charles Cohen, an award-winning professor emeritus in the UW–Madison Department of History and the founding director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions, teaches …
Scott Burkhardt wins L&S Academic Advising Award
Our undergraduate advisor extraordinaire, Scott Burkhardt, has just won this year’s L&S Academic Advising Award. UW-Madison College of Letters & Science gives out only two awards per year – one for faculty, one for staff. …
Kate Wersan wins the Leopold-Hidy Prize
Congratulations to Kate Wersan, who has won the American Society for Environmental History’s 2017 Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. Her article, “The Early Melon and the Mechanical Gardener: Toward an Environmental History …
David McDonald chosen to receive Distinguished Teaching Award
David McDonald has been chosen to receive a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!! In his nearly 30-year teaching career at UW-Madison Prof. McDonald has guided students through topics ranging from Imperial Russia to baseball in the …
Margaret R. Bogue (1924-2018)
Margaret Ruth Bogue, 93, Emeritus History Professor at the University of Wisconsin, died March 8, 2018, at her home in Madison, Wisconsin. Margaret was born in Washington, D.C. June 14, 1924, to parents James H. …
Lee Wandel interview to air on Wisconsin Public Television
Wisconsin Public Television will be airing a Lee Palmer Wandel interview on University Place with Norman Gillard on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. University Place on Wisconsin Public Television
The Society for Military History recognizes Chad Gibbs
The Society for Military History recognized Chad Gibbs for his paper “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” with an honorable mention for the Carroll Award for best graduate …