Category: U.S./North American History

Zada Ballew and Christopher Hulshof Receive TA Awards

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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 recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance on the part of TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience. The Exceptional Service Award recognizes TAs …

Professor Gloria Whiting Wins Prize for Best Article in American Legal History

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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 prize is awarded annually for the best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar during the …

Professor Sasha Suarez Speaks to Local News about Indigenous Activism

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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 station WTMJ-TV. In the segment, Professor Suarez discusses her research in which “multiple city reports acknowledge that bosses were hesitant to …

Paige Glotzer Receives Best Book in North American Urban History Award

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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 award is given for the best book in North American urban history published in 2020. According to the award announcement, …

UW History Alumni & Emeritus Receive WHA Awards

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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 book awards, the David J. Weber Prize and the W. Turrentine Jackson Award for Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement …

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Publishes New Book

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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 Jacques Derrida’s initial American presentation of his deconstructive work in a famed lecture at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and …

Q&A with Professor Paige Glotzer About Redlining Policies in Madison

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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 renewal afterwards in the 1950s and 1960s, and that kind of locked into place certain patterns of development for different …

Welcome New Faculty

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The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Simon Balto, Marcella Hayes, and Matt Villeneuve!  Simon Balto joins us as a historian of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus and expertise in African American history. Professor Balto’s first book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black …

Alumnus John Gripentrog Publishes New Book

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Congratulations to alumnus John Gripentrog (Ph.D. 2006) on the publication of his new book, Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919-1941 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). “Reconsidering the origins of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, this book focuses on the diplomatic and cultural interactions between the United States and …

Professor Patrick Iber Receives NEH Fellowship

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Congratulations to Professor Patrick Iber on receiving a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Iber is one of 213 NEH grant recipients nationwide, and his $60,000 fellowship (funded through the Ford Foundation) will last four years. This fellowship will allow Iber to work on writing his next manuscript, The Ford Foundation, Social Science, and …