Two teaching assistants from the Department of History, Ludwig Decke and Emma Wathen, have received a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards recognize their excellence in teaching. Ludwig and Emma both received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award. Ludwig Decke is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History, specializing in the intersection of Jewish, …
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 invasion of Ukraine began back in February of 2022, Professor Hirsch has continued to publish widely on the human rights …
History Ph.D. candidate and U.S. Army veteran Chad Gibbs has an article published in Newsweek about how the end of the pandemic might feel, from the perspective of a combat veteran, and what to look for next. “While that last phase of a high-tempo life in danger certainly has its risks, what comes next also …
Kathryn Ciancia’s new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020) is now available. Description: As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, …
David Sorkin, a historian of Jewish and European history, has published a new book titled Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019). Sorkin is a Professor Emeritus of our department and currently the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. He specializes in the intersection of Jewish …
This past Sunday, December 8th, Professor Elizabeth Lapina was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio for a segment titled “Knightly Culture and the Crusades.” The host was Norman Gilliland, who co-produces the weekly WPR program “University of the Air.” Lapina delved into the questions about how the crusades began, what the crusaders were trying to achieve, …
In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, he could identify only sixty-eight survivors. Analysis of Donat’s early findings—emerging six years prior to the publication of any major …
“Two Vultures? Freud’s Psychoanalysis between ‘Jewish Science’ and Humanism” Scott Spector – University of Michigan Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature Wednesday, April 14, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Union South (1308 W Dayton St.) Sigmund Freud’s revolutionary approach to the human mind—psychoanalysis—was a new science, and yet one that was from the …
“Jewish Languages, Past and Present” Aaron Rubin Penn State University Monday, March 19, 2018 4:00 PM Pyle Center This presentation is devoted to the rich array of languages other than Hebrew that have been written and spoken by Jewish communities throughout history. Some Jewish languages have substantial written traditions in the Hebrew script, while others …
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