Congratulations to the 2017 ‘Outstanding Women of Color!’
Christy Clark-Pujara is one of six being recognized as 2017’s “Outstanding Women of Color” on February 22, 2018. Read the full article on UW–Madison’s Creating Community website.
Christy Clark-Pujara is one of six being recognized as 2017’s “Outstanding Women of Color” on February 22, 2018. Read the full article on UW–Madison’s Creating Community website.
Check out this wonderful website created by a team of graduate students in Florence Bernault’s Hist 861 last spring. Kate Alfin, Lamin Keita (Poli Sci), Lauren Maly and Leslie Sabakinu worked together to create this excellent resource for learning more the history of women’s work in East Africa. East African Working Women
Susan Johnson was recently interviewed for an episode of the history podcast BackStory (produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) on the California Gold Rush and the episode, All That Glitters? Legacies of the California Gold Rush. Here’s a link to the multi-segment episode (hers is the 4th segment).
Sergio Gonzalez, an author and doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is earnest, intense and seems destined to lead. At 30, Gonzalez is completing his Ph.D. in history with a focus on labor, immigration and working-class history. In November, he was honored by Centro Hispano of Dane County with an award recognizing the person …
Interview with David Fields on U.S.-Korea Relations Historian David Fields discussed the background of the relationship between North Korea and South Korea and the involvement of the United States. The interview took place at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. Watch the interview on C-SPAN.
History Newsletter 2017-18 – “The Past in the Present” Chair’s Welcome Twenty Years of ARCHIVE Drunk History Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25 Wisconsin 101 Progress Report Faculty/Emeriti News News Professorships Graduate Student/Alumni Notes Undergraduate/Graduate Awards and more… History Newsletter 2017-18 – “The Past in the Present” (pdf) This issue and past copies of the newsletter can …
The African Studies Program congratulates and bids a fond farewell to longtime colleague Florence Bernault, who will be returning to her home country of France for a senior professorship in African History at the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po). Read full article here.
A recent autobiographical essay on how Gregg Mitman became an environmental historian, commissioned by the Rachel Carson Center. Read the essay on their blog, Seeing the Woods.
A new certificate teaches students historical, cultural and philosophical ways people intersect with health care and provides them a broader, more nuanced understanding of health. Last spring in a Biology and Society course, Makenzie Wydra had an aha moment. Health, she realized, isn’t just the way diseases form and how the body responds to medicines …
“Martin Luther & the Reformation” listen to Lee Palmer Wandel UW–Madison, Professor of History on Wisconsin Public Radios’ “University of the Air” He was a catalyst for a religious revolution and he remains controversial today. Five hundred years ago, an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther began questioning some of the fundamental practices and beliefs of …