Since graduating last winter (December 2018), newly minted Ph.D. recipient Dr. Megan Stanton has received the Mormon History Association’s Best Dissertation Award for “All in the Family: Ecclesiastical Authority and Family Theology in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.” Stanton received the award at the MHA’s 54th annual conference last week in Salt …
This week, the world remembers the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. In an effort to commemorate this moment, alumnus and Board of Visitors Emeritus Jeffrey A. Engel (M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2001) has written an opinion piece for the Washington Post. The article is titled “Lest we forget: The lesson of D-Day for Americans today,” and …
Graduate student Simon Fisher is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the Journal of African American History! Fisher’s article, “Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro,” was part of a special JAAH issue on “LGBT Themes in African American History.” Fisher is working on a dissertation currently …
Recently graduated history majors Samantha Zinnen (2019) and Tristan Krause (2018) have been featured in an article from UW News, for their work done with UW–Madison’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project. This project focuses on advancing the recovery of MIAs by “involving an academic blend of knowledge and research as well as educating …
Alumna Debbie Sharnak (Ph.D. 2017), currently a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University, has recently won Harvard’s 2019 Stephen Botein Prize for Excellence in Teaching! Sharnak’s research and teaching cover topics such as the history of human rights, transnational networks, Latin America, and international relations. Before starting her position at Harvard, Sharnak worked …
Four faculty members have received Vilas Professorships and Awards this year! Professor Francine Hirsch (Russian & European History) received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as outstanding efforts in teaching and service. This Professorship will provide five years of research funding. Professors Nan Enstad (U.S. History) and Neil Kodesh …
Alumnus Tom Rademacher (BA, 2017) recently had his senior honors thesis published in volume 25 of The Mining History Journal – the peer reviewed, scholarly journal of the Mining History Association. Rademacher’s thesis is titled, Wisconsin Sand and Gravel Mining: From Nineteenth-Century Gravel Pits to Twenty-First Century Frac Sand Mines. During his time in the …
Walter Stern, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and affiliated faculty member of the History Department, has received the 2018 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History. This prize is awarded annually by the Historic New Orleans Collection and Louisiana Historical Association for the best book on Louisiana History. His prize-winning book is entitled …
Congratulations to alumnus David Blight (Ph.D. 1985), who has just won the Pulitzer Prize in History! Blight, Professor of History at Yale, was recognized for his most recent book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018). According to the Pulitzer Prize website, this book is “a breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass’ …
History alumnus Ryan Quintana (Ph.D. 2010) was recently featured in an episode of the podcast Ben Franklin’s World! In the episode, he discusses the creation and development of early republic South Carolina through concepts of “space,” the ways in which Black Carolinians helped secure South Carolina’s independence, and how Black Carolinians helped build South Carolina’s …