Professor Monica Kim has recently been named a MacArthur Fellow. This “genius grant” fellowship provides an $800,000 stipend for the fellows to use as they see fit. The criteria that are used to select the fellows are exceptional creativity, future promise, and potential for the fellowship to lead to creative work. The director of the …
Kacie Lucchini Butcher, the Director of the Public History Project, recently published an article in The Oral History Review titled Challenging the Badger Brand: The Ethics of Conducting Oral History Interviews with College-Athletes. This article examines the ethical problems that arose during attempts to document the experiences of college athletes at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. …
The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Khaled Esseissah, Michael Martoccio, and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo! Khaled Esseissah joins us as a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century West Africa. Professor Esseissah is currently working on his book manuscript, Emancipation, Authority, and …
From September 12 through December 23, 2022, the Chazen Museum of Art will be displaying the Public History Project’s premiere exhibition titled Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance. The exhibition spans over 150 years of UW–Madison history and highlights stories of struggle and perseverance through archival objects, photographs, and oral histories. Sifting …
Professor Simon Balto has recently been named as a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy serves as the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain. The center embraces a dual mission: to educate students …
Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed by ABC News about housing discrimination in Baltimore. A Black couple’s home value rose nearly $300K after it was shown by a White colleague. Professor Glotzer discusses the origins of real estate appraisal and why it historically links property value to race. Housing segregation is the subject of Professor Glotzer’s …
The annual Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes graduating seniors who, through the senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrate outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and interdisciplinary nature. This prize is made possible by a gift to the UW Foundation by Sidney E. Iwanter, an alumnus of the College of Letters & Sciences (B.A. …
The premiere of Wisconsin 101’s new website comes with a huge sigh of relief. In a small way, creating a new website resembles building a new house. You begin with a few notions of what you would like your new “home” to look like, and you bring those half-formed aspirations to a designer, be it …
Professor Ashley Brown participated in an extensive interview about athlete Althea Gibson for Germany’s WDR TV Station (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). The subject of this interview, Althea Gibson, is also the subject of Ashley Brown’s book which is to be published in January 2023, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2023). …
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul whose recent book, Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (U Hawaii Press, 2020) has won the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize is awarded to the best academic book on Southeast …