Modern Language Association of America has announced that it would be awarding David A. Chang (Ph.D. 2002) with its third MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. David Chang is a professor of history at University of Minnesota, and his research focuses on indigenous peoples, colonialism, as well as borders and …
Graduate student Erin Faigin recently had a book review published in Marginalia, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Faigin reviewed Shari Rabin’s book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press, 2017). Faigin is a Peter and Julie Weil Distinguished Graduate Fellow in the Department of History at UW–Madison, …
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Paige Glotzer, who was just awarded the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award! This award means that she will have the opportunity to workshop her manuscript this spring with a group of selected reviewers. Her first book is titled, Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, …
Professor Nan Enstad is the guest on an episode of the biweekly podcast “Edge Effects,” produced by graduate students in the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) who edit the digital magazine of the same name. She joins environmental historian Drew Swanson (of Wright State University) to discuss her new book, Cigarettes, …
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The attack occurred during Shabbat services and during a bris, a celebration of a newborn life. Immediately before the …
For the sake of learning — and with occasional family healing — a UW history course is asking students to turn their parents into historical subjects. Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History 221 course, The History of Your Parents’ Generation (1970s–90s), tackles a tumultuous few decades through a generational lens, assigning students to interview their parents (“compelling …
Each year on Constitution Day (September 17), David Fields (UW–Madison Department of History, Ph.D., 2017) and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution (CSAC) likes to call attention to the fact that the entire corpus (to date) of the monumental Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (DHRC) is available online for free. …
Paige Glotzer – Faculty Page I research the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century. My first book, entitled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, is currently under contract with Columbia University Press for its Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series. It charts how suburban developers, including …
We work and live in a time when historical knowledge has become intensely politicized. That knowledge is political is hardly new, but the rise of Donald Trump has heightened the polarization. His administration governs with a torrent of disorienting dishonesty, and his cry of “fake news” seems to mean less that the news in question …
White supremacy is a language of unease. It does not describe racial domination so much as worry about it. White supremacy connotes many grim and terrifying things, including inequality, exclusion, injustice, and state and vigilante violence. Like whiteness itself, white supremacy arose from the world of Atlantic slavery but survived its demise. Yet while the …