This weekend, thousands of Badgers will earn their degrees at UW-Madison Commencement. In anticipation of the commencement proceedings, UW-Madison highlighted several graduates with unique accomplishments to share, and three of them will be receiving their …
U.S./North American History
Retirement Celebration in Honor of Professor Emeritus William Cronon
This Saturday, April 30th, Professor Emeritus William Cronon will be back on the UW-Madison campus to participate in “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World,” a day-long conference organized by his former PhD students that …
Professor Ashley Brown Featured on Big Ten Network
On February 14th, Professor Ashley Brown was interviewed by her former student Ethan Bacon for a Big Ten Network feature on George Coleman Poage, first African-American athlete to win an Olympic medal and a UW-Madison History …
Zada Ballew and Christopher Hulshof Receive TA Awards
Congratulations to graduate students Zada Ballew and Christopher Hulshof on receiving 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards! Zada received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award, while Christopher received the Exceptional Service Award. The Early Excellence in Teaching Award …
Professor Gloria Whiting Wins Prize for Best Article in American Legal History
Professor Gloria Whiting has received the Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History for her article, “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court.” This …
Professor Sasha Suarez Speaks to Local News about Indigenous Activism
November is Native American Heritage Month, and to help bring awareness to Wisconsinites about some of the issues the Native American community have been facing, both past and present, Professor Sasha Suarez spoke with local Milwaukee news …
Paige Glotzer Receives Best Book in North American Urban History Award
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer on receiving the 2021 Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association for How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press, 2020)! This …
UW History Alumni & Emeritus Receive WHA Awards
Congratulations to our graduate program alumni, Jennifer Holland (PhD, 2013) and Cori Simon (PhD, 2020), on their awards from the Western Historical Association! At the WHA meeting last week, Jennifer Holland was presented with two …
Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Publishes New Book
Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz has a new book published through The University of Chicago Press. Deconstruction: An American Institution is an intellectual history of the deconstruction movement that transformed the humanities during the 20th century. “Deconstruction begins well before …
Q&A with Professor Paige Glotzer About Redlining Policies in Madison
Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed by The Capital Times this week about the history of redlining and housing segregation in Madison, WI. “The criteria of redlining, which included race, became the criteria for essentially urban …