Following an article she wrote Monday for CityLab concerning Trump’s tweets about Baltimore, Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed for a Time Magazine feature titled “Long Before Trump’s Tweets, Baltimore Had Become a ‘Target.’ Here’s How …
U.S./North American History
Professor Paige Glotzer Publishes Opinion Piece on Trump and Baltimore
Professor Paige Glotzer, who researches urban housing segregation, recently published an opinion piece with CityLab titled “What ‘Infests’ Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump’s Tweets.” Professor Glotzer’s forthcoming book, titled Building Suburban Power: The Business …
Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen Publishes Opinion Piece in NYT
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen recently published an opinion piece for The New York Times, titled “The Vicious Fun of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle.” The article reflects back on the 100th anniversary of the first meeting …
Summer History Coursework Becomes a Podcast
As one of our instructors teaching an online History course this summer, Brian Hamilton decided to engage his students in producing a podcast interview for Edge Effects magazine, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center …
An Interview with Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017)
This summer, the Department made a post on social media about the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. One of our alumni, Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017), reached out to let us know …
Recent Graduate Sebastian van Bastelaer Has Article Published in Journal of the American Revolution
Newly-minted alumnus Sebastian van Bastelaer (B.A. 2019), recently had part of his senior thesis published as an article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Sebastian graduated from our program this spring with honors in …
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer Publishes First Book
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer (PhD, 2011) has recently published her first book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and …
Recently Graduated Ph.D. Receives Best Dissertation Award from the Mormon History Association
Since graduating last winter (December 2018), newly minted Ph.D. recipient Dr. Megan Stanton has received the Mormon History Association’s Best Dissertation Award for “All in the Family: Ecclesiastical Authority and Family Theology in The Church …
Alumnus Publishes Piece in Washington Post on 75th Anniversary of D-Day
This week, the world remembers the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. In an effort to commemorate this moment, alumnus and Board of Visitors Emeritus Jeffrey A. Engel (M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2001) has written an opinion …
PhD Candidate Simon Fisher Featured in the Journal of African American History’s First LGBT Special Issue
Graduate student Simon Fisher is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the Journal of African American History! Fisher’s article, “Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro,” was …