Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed by ABC News about housing discrimination in Baltimore. A Black couple’s home value rose nearly $300K after it was shown by a White colleague. Professor Glotzer discusses the origins of real estate appraisal and why it historically links property value to race. Housing segregation is the subject of Professor Glotzer’s …
Professor Ashley Brown participated in an extensive interview about athlete Althea Gibson for Germany’s WDR TV Station (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). The subject of this interview, Althea Gibson, is also the subject of Ashley Brown’s book which is to be published in January 2023, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2023). …
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received an honorable mention from the International Planning History Society for its First Book Prize. The First Book Prize is awarded to the most innovative book in planning history that …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has a new piece published with The Hedgehog Review titled, “Nietzsche’s Quarrel with History: Are there any lessons left for history to teach us?” The piece was published as part of their summer 2022 issue on the theme of “The Use and Abuse of History.” As a specialist in U.S. intellectual and cultural history, Ratner-Rosenhagen …
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has been selected as a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW–Madison. Funded by the College of Letters & Science and the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, the Summer Humanities Research Fellowship program supports tenured faculty at …
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. The Lewis Mumford Prize is awarded for the best book on American city and regional planning …
On Saturday, April 30th, 2022 Professor Emeritus William Cronon returned to the UW–Madison campus for a conference in celebration of his retirement. The one day conference titled “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World” was organized by his former graduate students and featured presentations from over twenty scholars and writers. Professor Emeritus William Cronon held …
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 degrees in History. The first is Susan Kay Baker. Susan is a returning student earning her bachelor’s degree in history following …
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 will double as a belated retirement celebration. As part of the conference, Cronon will deliver a keynote address titled, “Looking …
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 alumnus. Poage was born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1880 and moved with his family to La Crosse, Wisconsin at a …