The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following PhD candidates who are receiving UW-Madison Department of History Dissertator Fellowships: James Barnes Josh Doyle-Raso Ayanna Drakos Erin Faigin Emily Hutcheson Michael Kaelin …
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Congratulations to Dissertators Receiving External Fellowships
Congratulations to Dissertators Receiving External Fellowships The Department of History is excited to announce and celebrate the following History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology dissertators who are receiving external fellowships: Patrick Walsh has …
The Department of History Celebrates Graduate Commencement
On Saturday, May 14, 2022 the Department of History celebrated graduates who have received their PhDs in History with a hooding ceremony and reception at the Fluno Center. Among those recognized were graduates of the …
Monica Kim Receives First Book Praise & Second Book Funding
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has been selected as a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison. Funded by the College of Letters & Science and …
PhD Candidate Tyler Lehrer Delivers Lecture for Early Career Scholars in Sri Lanka
Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History and current Fulbright U.S. Student Program research grantee in Sri Lanka, recently gave an invited lecture to students, staff members, and early-career instructors in …
Paige Glotzer’s How the Suburbs Were Segregated Receives Lewis Mumford Prize
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American …
2022 Senior Thesis Students Give Advice
We asked students in Professor Kathryn Ciancia’s Spring 2022 Senior Thesis Colloquium what advice they would give to a student just starting out in the process of researching and writing a senior thesis. See what …
Graduate Program Manager Leslie Abadie Receives L&S Advising Excellence Award
Congratulations to the Department of History’s Graduate Program Manager, Leslie Abadie, on receiving the 2022 L&S Graduate Student Academic Advising Excellence Award! Leslie was honored for the award at a ceremony on April 27th. According …
Professor Emeritus William Cronon Returns to Campus for Retirement Celebration
On Saturday, April 30th, 2022 Professor Emeritus William Cronon returned to the UW-Madison campus for a conference in celebration of his retirement. The one day conference titled “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World” …
Francine Hirsch’s Analysis of Russian Invasion in Ukraine
Professor Francine Hirsch is a historian of modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union whose areas of expertise include comparative empires, the history of human rights, and Russian-American engagement. Since the Russian …