Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s “American Nietzsche” was turned into an exhibit “No Trivial Matter: Nietzsche’s Urge for the Truth” at New York Encounter, NYC (Feb. 2023) and discussed in the April 12th issue of Newsweek magazine under the headline: “Our Culture War Is Two Sides of the Same Nietzschean Coin.” The article states that “Ratner-Rosenagen’s book …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has a new piece published with The Hedgehog Review titled, “Nietzsche’s Quarrel with History: Are there any lessons left for history to teach us?” The piece was published as part of their summer 2022 issue on the theme of “The Use and Abuse of History.” As a specialist in U.S. intellectual and cultural history, Ratner-Rosenhagen …
Professor Mou Banerjee has been interviewed by Channel 3000 News about the current situation happening in Afghanistan. Banerjee lends a historical perspective to the Taliban’s role in Afghanistan, discusses the role of Sharia law, and offers some clarification on common misconceptions surrounding the relationship between the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Watch the full interview at …
UW–Madison News has featured Professor Mou Banerjee in a piece about pandemic pedagogy, and what meaningful connection with students looks like in a virtual classroom. At the end of the fall 2020 semester, Professor Banerjee’s History 200 First Year Interest Group students surprised her with a collection of heartfelt signs displaying thank you messages, revealed …
UW–Madison was included this year on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Students. Of the thirteen Fulbright recipients from UW–Madison, three are graduate students in our Department of History! Celia Crifasi has received a study/research award for Spain, Carly Lucas has received a study/research award for Tanzania, …
Professor Elizabeth Lapina has a new article published in The Medieval Globe titled, “Medievalism, Misogyny, and Orientalism: The Representation of Queen Sibylla in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven.” This article is an historian’s engagement with Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and its portrayal of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem. It demonstrates that the film presents a myth …
Professor Joe Dennis is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany. His research there is focused on the history of Chinese school libraries and legal education. To conduct his research, Dennis makes use of LoGaRT, a set of online digital tools for investigating a historical resource …
Professor Aaron Rock-Singer has a new article in the journal Religions, titled “Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements.” “This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of Islamic movements, and argues for a turn towards social practice. To do so, it traces the rise and spread of …
For a roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History, Professor Mou Banerjee has written an introduction focused on “Decolonizing Pedagogy: History as a Reckoning with the Past.” Of her own teaching, Professor Banerjee states: “When I teach the students about South Asian involvement in the two great wars, I center the experiences of the millions of …
The Department of History is proud to announce that Professor Louise Young has been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Professor Young is one of the nearly 250 outstanding individuals to have received this honor for the year 2020. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and …