Rivka Maizlish studies folk music, folklore, folk art, folk medicine – but she is not a folklorist. Maizlish is an intellectual historian, about to embark on a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution to dive more deeply into the question, how did people in 20th century America define folk? A PhD student in the UW–Madison history …
In the final months of the 19th century, a German sculptor named Walter Schott began drawing up plans for a massive work he hoped would represent the pinnacle of his 15-year career. Cast in bronze, the Art Nouveau sculpture would feature three young women prancing around the lip of a stone fountain, fingers intertwined and …
Date: Saturday, 16 June, from 1:30pm to 4pm Place: First Congregational Church, UCC at 1609 University Avenue Names of surviving daughters: Sue Bogue, Margaret Bogue-Harper, and Ellie Bogue Anyone so inclined is invited to share remembrances with the gathering. Margaret R. Bogue (1924-2018)
“On Wisconsin”, UW–Madison’s alumni magazine, published a great story on Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s course, “The History of Your Parents’ Generation”. In the story, Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen says “It seemed to me that [the course’s approach] could get students to connect to history.” Read the full story at “On Wisconsin.”
The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living US poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada is awarded the prize in recognition of his contribution to poetry. He is the first Latino poet to win this award since its inception in 1986. The …
Emily Callaci, assistant professor of history, and Mitra Sharafi, associate professor at the Law School, have been offered Summer Stipend awards by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the first time two UW–Madison nominees have been awarded NEH Summer Stipends in the same year. “This is a very competitive program,” explains Lea Jacobs, …
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 Scholarship Board. Emma will be able to continue research she started under the supervision of Professor Kathryn Ciancia as part …
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 dissertation, “‘I Wish You All Vivid’: Nigerian Literature in a Post-Colonial Word”. Formerly a student of Florence Bernault and now …
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 with Dr. Floyd Rose, president of 100 Black Men of Madison. In response to the report, Chancellor Blank announced several …
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 and writes about American religious history and the braided histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In his talk, he will …