The African American Intellectual History Society has published a new essay from Professor Paige Glotzer in their award-winning blog, Black Perspectives. The essay, “Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation” was created as part of a …
U.S./North American History
Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer Writes About African Americans & Global Antiracist Movements
Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer has an article published in the Washington Post that places this last summer’s global uprising after the police killing of George Floyd in the broader historical context of international anti-racist activism undertaken …
Professor Monica Kim Receives Top AAS Book Prize
Professor Monica Kim has received the James B. Palais Prize from the Association for Asian Studies for her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press, 2019). The Palais …
Professor Paige Glotzer Speaks & Presents on Housing Segregation
Professor Paige Glotzer is featured in the new episode of the podcast 1050 Bascom, from the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussing housing segregation in U.S. cities. Professor Glotzer offers her insights …
History Professors Receive Grant from Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative
Congratulations to Professors Elizabeth Hennessy and Christy Clark-Pujara, who have received a 5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative for “Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine”! According …
Professor Gloria Whiting Publishes Article in William and Mary Quarterly
Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in the early American history journal, William and Mary Quarterly. Titled “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court,” the …
Alumna Vaneesa Cook Writes About Work with MIA Project
Alumna Vaneesa Cook (Ph.D. 2015) has written a blog post about her work with the Missing in Action Recovery & Identification Project at UW-Madison. The piece is titled “The Legacy of the 5307th Merrill’s Marauders: …
Graduate Student Leslie Bellais Publishes Chapter on Remembering WWI in Wisconsin
Graduate student Leslie Bellais has published a chapter in the edited collection Home Front in the American Heartland: Local Experiences and Legacies of WWI (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). The chapter is titled “‘Lest We Forget’: Remembering …
Alumna Tyina Steptoe Publishes Piece on Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter
Alumna Tyina Steptoe (Ph.D. 2008) has written a piece on hip-hop and the Black Lives Matter movement for The Conversation, an independent, nonprofit online publisher of commentary and analysis. The piece is titled “Hip-hop is …
Professor Stephen Kantrowitz Tells the History of Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth, a day that commemorates an important moment in U.S. history – the liberation of nearly 200,000 enslaved Texans in 1865. Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 pronounced freedom to all …