Recently retired, Professor Emeritus John Sharpless was featured in an article from the Isthmus, discussing his time teaching at UW–Madison. “’I think it’s more about how I treated students generally,’ says Sharpless, 73, who gave his final lecture on December 11, 2018. ‘I treated them as adults whose opinions should be respected and I was always …
Professor Patrick Iber had an op-ed published in the New York Times yesterday, on the subject of U.S.-Venezuelan relations. Professor Iber is a historian of 20th century Latin America and U.S. foreign relations at UW–Madison. For the full article, click here.
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has an article published today in the Washington Post, titled “The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life.” Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen specializes in U.S. intellectual history at UW–Madison. For the full article, click the link here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/24/shutdown-is-trumps-ultimate-attack-intellectuals/?utm_term=.e854638953ef
The College of Letters and Science and the Wisconsin School of Business have approved a First Year Interest Group that Professor Paige Glotzer will lead, called Capitalism and America. The FIG is part of a UW–Madison National Endowment for the Humanities grant that recognizes how undergraduate business majors become better critical thinkers and more effective writers …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, has just been released this week by Oxford University Press. The book examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period to the present day by delving into ideas, thinkers, and intellectual movements. “Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, …
Professor Nan Enstad’s new book, Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, was featured in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post. The piece, titled “How Gov. Evers can make Foxconn work for Wisconsin: the key to good corporate citizenship,” commented on the 2017 Foxconn deal, which promises a $4.7 billion subsidy to the …
Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in the Department of Afro-American Studies. In the classroom, all three challenge old narratives with different perspectives and insights, as well as diversity. View …
History alumnus David Gilbert (Ph.D. 2011) is up for a Grammy Award! He is nominated in the category of Best Album Notes for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra. The notes are based on his book, The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth …
After 43 years of teaching, Professor John Sharpless will be retiring at the end of this month. Professor Sharpless has taught American history and political history at UW–Madison since 1975. Some of his former students returned to campus on Tuesday and attended his last lecture for the class, “History since 1945,” to honor the impact …
The Business History Conference has awarded the 2018 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History to Dr. Rachel Gross (Ph.D. 2017) (https://rachel-gross.com/). Enterprise and Society published a summary of the project, “From Buckskin to Gore-Tex: Consumption as a Path to Mastery in Twentieth-Century American Wilderness Recreation.” The prize citation noted that “the …