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 …
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History Ph.D. Candidate Writes About Pandemic and Post-Combat Life
History Ph.D. candidate and U.S. Army veteran Chad Gibbs has an article published in Newsweek about how the end of the pandemic might feel, from the perspective of a combat veteran, and what to look …
Giuliana Chamedes Selected as Winner of Vilas Associates Competition
Congratulations to Professor Giuliana Chamedes, who has been selected as one of 23 faculty winners of the 2021 Vilas Associates Competition! The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and …
Kathryn Ciancia featured on New Books Network podcast
Kathryn Ciancia was recently featured on the New Books Network podcast where she spoke about her new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020). Listen to and …
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 …
Professor Judd Kinzley Publishes Op-Ed Supporting Chinese Grad Students
On Saturday, June 13th, Professor Judd Kinzley published an op-ed in The Cap Times on the subject of new federal proposals that would limit the number of Chinese graduate students and researchers coming to Wisconsin …
Video: “Still Fighting, Seventy Years Later: The Strange Afterlife of World War II in Japan and Asia”
Professor Louise Young, recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presents her research on World War II memory politics in Japan. Seventy years after Japan’s surrender, why does the conduct and interpretation …
Professor Lapina Interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio
This past Sunday, December 8th, Professor Elizabeth Lapina was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio for a segment titled “Knightly Culture and the Crusades.” The host was Norman Gilliland, who co-produces the weekly WPR program “University …
Professor Giuliana Chamedes Publishes First Book
Professor Giuliana Chamedes‘ first book has just been released! A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Harvard University Press, 2019), is the “first comprehensive history of the Vatican’s agenda to defeat the forces of …
History Majors Featured for Work on MIA Project
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 …