Congratulations to alumna Geneviève Dorais (Ph.D. 2014) on the publication of her new book, Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). “The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) was a Peruvian political party that played an important role in the development of the Latin American left during the first half of …
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Iber on receiving a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Iber is one of 213 NEH grant recipients nationwide, and his $60,000 fellowship (funded through the Ford Foundation) will last four years. This fellowship will allow Iber to work on writing his next manuscript, The Ford Foundation, Social Science, and …
Congratulations to Professor Marla Ramírez on receiving a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant ($120,000 over 3 years) for her project, “Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative.” The Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment is a competitive grant program that honors the legacy of Ineva Reilly Baldwin and Ira Baldwin by funding projects that foster public engagement and the advancement of the Wisconsin Idea. …
Congratulations to Professor Pablo Gómez, a recipient of the 2021-2022 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship! The Romnes Fellowship recognizes and supports tenured faculty and their research. Professor Gómez holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Department of Medical History & Bioethics here at UW-Madison. His work examines the history of health and corporeality in …
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy has received the 2021 Leopold-Hidy Best Article Award for her 2020 publication in the journal Environmental History. The Leopold-Hidy Award is given by the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History in recognition of superior scholarship. Selected by the Environmental History editorial board, the award is based on elegance …
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, …
Congratulations to Professors Elizabeth Hennessy and Christy Clark-Pujara, who have received a 5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative for “Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine”! According to the grant: “There are two significant barriers to just futures in the sciences: lack of awareness of histories of …
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy’s recently published book, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (Yale University Press, 2019), has been featured in the New York Review of Books. David Quammen’s review, which covers three books on Darwin (of which Hennessy’s is one), notes that On the Backs of …
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy has written an article for the Washington Post titled “We’re trying to keep the Galapagos pristine. That might destroy them.” The piece talks about recent efforts to preserve biodiversity in the Galapagos, framing it through a lens of evolutionary history and what exactly constitutes the “pristine.” Of the Galapagos, Hennessy says, “When we …
Professor Patrick Iber has published a review essay of historian Alexander Zevin’s new book Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist in The New Republic. Professor Iber is a contributing editor for that magazine, and writes frequently for its Books & the Arts section. He is also an editorial board member of Dissent magazine, where …