In January 2025, James Sweet published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Read more here.
This past fall, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Professor Louise Young. An honorary society and policy organization founded in 1780, the Academy elects exceptionally accomplished individuals and engages them in advancing the public good. Young signed the Book of Members at an Induction Ceremony that celebrated recently elected artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. …
Professor Judd Kinzley recorded an interview on the history of US-China relations for University of the Air on Wisconsin Public Radio. University of the Air invites distinguished faculty guests from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to discuss topics in music, art, writing, theater, science, education, and history. During the interview, Professor Kinzley explains the ups and …
Professor Monica Kim has recently been named a MacArthur Fellow. This “genius grant” fellowship provides an $800,000 stipend for the fellows to use as they see fit. The criteria that are used to select the fellows are exceptional creativity, future promise, and potential for the fellowship to lead to creative work. The director of the …
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 …
Professor Francine Hirsch is a historian of modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union whose areas of expertise include comparative empires, the history of human rights, and Russian-American engagement. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began back in February of 2022, Professor Hirsch has continued to publish widely on the human rights …
Professor Judd Kinzley has a new article out in The American Historical Review (the official publication of the American Historical Association), titled “Wartime Dollars and the Crowning of China’s Hog Bristle King: The Dubious Legacies of American Aid, 1938-1949.” “US war mobilization efforts in the early 1940s helped create demand for a vast assortment of …
Professor Mary Lou Roberts has a new book titled, Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII (University of Chicago Press, 2021). According to the publisher’s website, “Sheer Misery trains a humane and unsparing eye on the corporeal experiences of the soldiers who fought in Belgium, France, and Italy during the last two years of the war. …
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has received the 2021 Outstanding Achievement in History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies! This is the fourth award that Kim has received for her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press, 2019). Kim’s work aims to place US empire …
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 Prize is given annually to an outstanding scholar of Korean studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished …