Professor Nan Enstad has been awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for her recent book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The Beveridge Award is presented for a distinguished book written in the English language on the history of the United States, …
Professor Sarah Thal and her students from History 300: History at Work, took a trip to the Wisconsin Historical Society as part of their class. Lisa Saywell, Director of Public Services, gave the students a tour of the building, including the library and storage room where they keep the newspaper archives, which happen to be …
Current Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Stitt, who studies U.S. intellectual and cultural history, has published a new piece in the digital magazine Aeon. Her article is titled “For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind,” and discusses the conservationist icon’s use of wonder as a central pillar in her ecological and moral philosophy. Stitt …
Following an article she wrote Monday for CityLab concerning Trump’s tweets about Baltimore, Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed for a Time Magazine feature titled “Long Before Trump’s Tweets, Baltimore Had Become a ‘Target.’ Here’s How Segregation Helped Create Its Problems.” In the article, Glotzer states, “The tweets said two things – that Baltimore was full …
Professor Paige Glotzer, who researches urban housing segregation, recently published an opinion piece with CityLab titled “What ‘Infests’ Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump’s Tweets.” Professor Glotzer’s forthcoming book, titled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, discusses how suburban developers, including Baltimore’s Roland Park Company, ushered in modern housing segregation with the …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen recently published an opinion piece for The New York Times, titled “The Vicious Fun of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle.” The article reflects back on the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the Algonquin Round Table, a regular gathering of writers, actors, critics, and wits that began in 1919 and lasted …
As one of our instructors teaching an online History course this summer, Brian Hamilton decided to engage his students in producing a podcast interview for Edge Effects magazine, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment at UW–Madison. The students of History 227 – Race and Environment in the History of the …
This summer, the Department made a post on social media about the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. One of our alumni, Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017), reached out to let us know that she had written a report for the Wisconsin State Legislative Reference Bureau on that very topic. We wanted to …
Newly-minted alumnus Sebastian van Bastelaer (B.A. 2019), recently had part of his senior thesis published as an article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Sebastian graduated from our program this spring with honors in the major. His thesis, titled “Paroisses Indociles” (Unruly Parishes): A Reconsideration of Habitant Loyalties and the Historiography of the American …
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer (PhD, 2011) has recently published her first book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and advertising that forged a close association between blackness and Americanness. Greer is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and …