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. Congratulations Scott! We’re so glad to see your tireless efforts on behalf of our students recognized. Our undergraduate program would …
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 of Timekeeping in the Long Eighteenth Century,” appeared in the April 2017 issue. Advised by William Cronon, Kate has held fellowships …
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 post-WWII era. Congratulations David on this well-deserved honor! Listen to him talk about his award (YouTube). Read more about the …
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. Beattie and Maude P. (Rock) Beattie. Margaret grew up near McLean, Virginia where her father ran an experimental farm for …
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 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 student military history paper during the 2018 Missouri Valley History Conference (March 1-3, 2018). Chad’s paper discusses the lessons he …
The French Institut d’études avancées just published an interview with Viren Murthy on Pan-Asianism and China’s place in the world. A must read for the Sinologists among you who read French! Viren held a fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées (Nantes, France) in 2016.
The legendary University of Wisconsin–Madison professor George Mosse taught courses in European cultural history, providing unique insight into racism and fascism. Mosse retired in 1987, but his work couldn’t be more relevant in an era plagued by increasing intolerance and authoritarianism. That helps explain the appeal of What History Tells, an online course featuring Mosse’s …
The History Department sadly announces that Professor Emeritus Diane Lindstrom died on February 7, 2018. She was the first woman to earn tenure in the History Department. She also was the first person to teach a course at the university in Women’s Studies. Diane Lindstrom and her twin brother, Daniel, were born in Jamestown, New …
The latest book Lynn Nyhart co-edited with Scott Lidgardlisted, Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, 2017), is among “Choice’s” 2017 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous …