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2025/2026 Department News

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…
Emily Callaci Lecture Filmed by PBS Wisconsin University Place

On October 29, 2025, Professor Emily Callaci‘s lecture “Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement” was filmed by University Place for PBS Wisconsin. In this lecture, Professor Callaci tells the story…
Day of the Badger 2026

SAVE THE DATE: April 14 – April 15, 2026 Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 14 – April 15, alumni, friends,…
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo Featured in Media after Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance

Historian of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America, Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo has appeared in a series of media appearances in February 2026. Recently, Professor Meléndez-Badillo collaborated with global superstar Bad Bunny in…
Pablo Gómez Publishes Book: Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

UW–Madison History Professor Pablo F. Gómez recently published a new book with University of Chicago Press. Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality is a provocative account…
Devin Kennedy Publishes Book: Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy

UW–Madison History Professor Devin Kennedy recently published a new book, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy, with Columbia University Press. Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer…
Gregg Mitman Awarded Distinguished Civilian Honor by the Republic of Liberia

UW–Madison Emeritus Professor Gregg Mitman received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption, one of the highest honors conferred by the Republic of Liberia. The distinguished honor was given…
Marcella Hayes Receives Award for Forthcoming Book: Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima

UW–Madison History Professor Marcella Hayes’ forthcoming book, Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima, is already receiving praise. Black Self-Governance has won the 2025 Founder’s Prize for manuscripts in…

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2024

Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards

Ashley Brown – Associate Professor and Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society – has continued to receive many accolades for her biography of the iconic American tennis…
Professor Emeritus Colleen Dunlavy’s Book Named Among Best Books of Summer 2024 by Financial Times

The Financial Times recognized Professor Emerita of History, UW–Madison Colleen Dunlavy’s Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse one of the best summer books of 2024. Small,…
Day of the Badger: April 16-17, 2024

Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 16 – April 17, alumni, friends, faculty, and students come together to celebrate and support UW.…
Sasha Maria Suarez Recognized with Exceptional Service Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Sasha Suarez who was awarded an Exceptional Service Award! This award recognizes Sasha for her considerable community-facing and university service while also maintaining a high level of research…
Neil Kodesh receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

Professor Neil Kodesh was one of thirteen faculty members chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. This honor recognizes exemplary achievements in teaching, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize…
Judith Houck Publishes New Book: Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement

The University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. The work highlights local history to tell a national story about…
Mou Banerjee and Undergraduate Students Featured in Interview on The Nonviolence Project

The College of Letters & Science recently published a spotlight on The Nonviolence Project, an online history project that aims to educate people about the success of nonviolent protests across the world.…

2023

Paige Glotzer Publishes New Essay for Prestigious Digital Redlining Project

Paige Glotzer published an essay as part of the launch of the new version of the prestigious digital resource for redlining, Mapping Inequality. Glotzer was invited to pilot the site’s new feature,…
John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association

Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book…
NBA Star Devin Harris Returns to Graduate 20 Years Later

This Sunday, December 17 former professional basketball player Devin Harris will graduate with his bachelor’s degree in History from UW–Madison, nearly 20 years after leaving UW–Madison to play in the NBA. Before…
History Alumnus Nils Peterson Receives Prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Recent alumnus Nils Peterson has been awarded a 2024 Marshall Scholarship. This prestigious honor gives high-achieving young Americans the opportunity to study at the graduate level at any university in the United…
History Major Chloe Foor Receives Spotlight for Interdisciplinary Work

The School of Computer, Data, & Information Sciences recently published a student spotlight on Chloe Foor that detailed how Chloe is using her interdisciplinary education to study the human-centered aspects of technology. Chloe is a senior…
Marla Ramírez and Undergraduates Present at Oral History Conference

Professor Marla Ramírez and two undergraduate students, Lezly Vejar and Zevdah Drizin, presented on their original research at the 2023 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this October. The presentation,…
Grad Student Verenize Arceo Receives Two WHA Awards

Congratulations to graduate student Verenize Arceo, who has received two awards from the Western History Association! Verenize received the 2023 WHA Graduate Student Prize and the 2023 Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship. The WHA…
Ashley Brown Receives Book Award for Althea Gibson Biography

The Association of Black Women Historians has awarded its 2023 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize to Professor Ashley Brown for her book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. Bestowed…
Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press

Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing…
Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen Reviewed in New York Times

Associate Professor Kathryn McGarr, a History Department affiliate, was featured in The New York Times in a review of four new books on journalism. Read the review of City of Newsmen: Public…

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2022

Louise Young Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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…
Jim Sweet Gives His Presidential Address at the American Historical Association Conference in January

Jim Sweet ends his term as the 2022 President of the American Historical Association with a presidential address at the annual American Historical Association Conference. The address, entitled “Slave Trading as a…
Judd Kinzley Recorded an Interview with University of the Air

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…
Ph.D. Alum Catherine Burns Received 2022 James Phinney Baxter Award

Catherine M. Burns (PhD 2011) is the recipient of the 2022 James Phinney Baxter Award for best article in the scholarly journal Maine History. “ ‘It May Be Questionable’: Granger v. Avery…
PhD Candidate Tyler A. Lehrer Publishes New Article in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions

Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History, has recently published an article in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions titled “Dangerous Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Buddhist Laṅkā and…
Samuel Freedman Visits History 136

On Tuesday, November 15th Professor Ashley Brown hosted Samuel G. Freedman as a guest speaker in History 136: Sport, Recreation, & Society in the United States. Freedman’s appearance was coordinated as part of…
Go Big Read Author Meets with History Undergraduate and Graduate Students

This year’s Go Big Read book is How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith. On November 2nd, 2022, Clint Smith spoke with…
Monica Kim Named 2022 MacArthur Fellow

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…
Kacie Lucchini Butcher Publishes New Article in The Oral History Review

Kacie Lucchini Butcher, the Director of the Public History Project, recently published an article in The Oral History Review titled Challenging the Badger Brand: The Ethics of Conducting Oral History Interviews with…
Welcome New Faculty

The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Khaled Esseissah, Michael Martoccio, and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo! Khaled Esseissah joins us as a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race,…

2021

In Memoriam: Alumnus R. Richard “Dick” Wagner

In Memoriam: Alumnus R. Richard “Dick” Wagner The Department of History is sad to share the news that one of our alums, R. Richard “Dick” Wagner (PhD, 1971) passed away unexpectedly on…
In Memoriam: Alumnus Tyler Stovall

The Department of History is saddened to note the passing of alumnus Tyler Stovall (PhD, 1984). Dr. Stovall studied with Harvey Goldberg at UW–Madison and became a distinguished historian of modern France…
Professor Judd Kinzley Publishes Article in Wisconsin Magazine of History

Congratulations to Professor Judd Kinzley, who has a new article published in the most recent issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. “The Ghosts of Science Hall: The Chinese Geologists of the…
Professor Gloria Whiting Wins Prize for Best Article in American Legal History

Professor Gloria Whiting has received the Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History for her article, “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from…
Professor Alfred McCoy Publishes New Book

Congratulations to Professor Alfred McCoy on the publication of his new book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, out this month from Haymarket Books. From the publisher’s website: “In…
Professor Lucas Richert Publishes New Book on the Global History of Cannabis

Lucas Richert, Associate Professor and George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy and History Department faculty affiliate, has published a new book titled Cannabis: Global Histories (MIT Press, 2021). The book, co-edited…
Professor Sasha Suarez Speaks to Local News about Indigenous Activism

November is Native American Heritage Month, and to help bring awareness to Wisconsinites about some of the issues the Native American community have been facing, both past and present, Professor Sasha Suarez spoke with…
Paige Glotzer Receives Best Book in North American Urban History Award

Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer on receiving the 2021 Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association for How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia…
Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear Receives AHA Prize for Best Reference Work

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear for winning the American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize for the best reference work published over the last five years! The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography:…
UW History Alumni & Emeritus Receive WHA Awards

Congratulations to our graduate program alumni, Jennifer Holland (PhD, 2013) and Cori Simon (PhD, 2020), on their awards from the Western Historical Association! At the WHA meeting last week, Jennifer Holland was…

2020

Alumnus Mark Solovey Publishes New Book

Congratulations to alumnus Mark Solovey (PhD, 1996) on the publication of his newest book, Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation (MIT…
History Department 2020 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”

History Newsletter 2020-21 (pdf) History Newsletter 2020-21: Mobile-Friendly Version (pdf) Chair’s Welcome History Welcomes New Members Interpreting 2020 The Joy of Learning New Club and Podcast Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News and more… This issue…
Stanley Schultz (1938-2020)

Stanley Kenton “Stan” Schultz, age 82, passed away at his home in Middleton, Wis., on Dec. 8, 2020. Stan was born on July 12, 1938, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Kenton Schultz…
Alumnus Paul Grant Publishes Book

Alumnus Paul Grant (Ph.D. 2017) has published his first book, Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2020). According to the publisher’s website: “Focusing on the…
Students of Professor Banerjee’s History 200 Say “Thank You”

Professor Mou Banerjee got a surprise on Tuesday when students from her History 200 course on Gandhi, King, Mandela: Non-Violence in the World performed a coordinated thank you to Professor Banerjee over…

2019

Professor Emeritus David Sorkin Publishes New Book

David Sorkin, a historian of Jewish and European history, has published a new book titled Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019). Sorkin is a Professor Emeritus of…
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…
History Major Takes a Horticulture Class with Grandparents Who Audit

Danielle Wendricks, a History major also studying Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Educational Policy at UW–Madison, took Horticulture 120 this semester with her grandparents, who audited the class as part of UW’s…
Gloria Whiting publishes article in Slavery & Abolition

Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in Slavery & Abolition titled “Emancipation without the courts or constitution: the case of Revolutionary Massachusetts.” The essay rethinks the process by which freedom was…
Professor Hennessy Longlisted for 2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Professor Elizabeth Hennessy, whose book On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (Yale University Press) was published this year, is on the longlist for…

2018

Walter Stern receives 2018 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History

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…
L&S Newsletter Publishes Article on Professors Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville

Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in…
Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball Bud Selig (B.A. 1956) Delivers Winter Commencement Speech

On Sunday, December 16th, the winter graduates of 2018 and 6,700 guests packed the seats of the Kohl Center and listened to Alan H, “Bud” Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball…
Alumnus David Gilbert Nominated for Grammy Award

History alumnus David Gilbert (Ph.D. 2011) is up for a Grammy Award! He is nominated in the category of Best Album Notes for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway…
Publication from Goldberg Center Book Series Awarded Prize from the American Historical Association

The book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, published as part of The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History with University of Wisconsin Press has just received the James Harvey Robinson…

2017

History Department 2017 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”

History Newsletter 2017-18 – “The Past in the Present” Chair’s Welcome Twenty Years of ARCHIVE Drunk History Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25 Wisconsin 101 Progress Report Faculty/Emeriti News News Professorships Graduate Student/Alumni Notes…
African Studies celebrates the contributions of Florence Bernault

The African Studies Program congratulates and bids a fond farewell to longtime colleague Florence Bernault, who will be returning to her home country of France for a senior professorship in African History…
Making Tracks: Gregg Mitman

A recent autobiographical essay on how Gregg Mitman became an environmental historian, commissioned by the Rachel Carson Center. Read the essay on their blog, Seeing the Woods.
History of Science Brown Bag – Marie Hicks

“Searching for Genderqueerness in the Archive” Marie Hicks UW–Madison, Department of History Upcoming History of Science brown bag: December 8th with Lynn Nyhart – Town Hall
Lecture: Evan Laksmana

“Reshuffling the Deck?: Organizational Evolution, Officer Promotion, and Military Reform in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia” Evan Laksmana Doctoral Candidate Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University Senior Researcher Center of Strategic and…

2016

Prof. Lederer named UNC Distinguished Visiting Professor

January 2016 Susan E. Lederer, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics and department chair, will spend Spring 2016 in North Carolina. She will be the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting…
Gómez receives UW IRH residential fellowship

January 2016 Assistant Professor Pablo Gómez has been awarded a UW Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) residential fellowship for the coming Fall semester. Pablo will be working on his second…
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2016

January 22 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, UW–Madison “Blood…
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2016

September 9 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester. For the remainder of the hour, we’ll have an informal discussion about current problems with academic publishing, which…
Post-Soviet Lustration and Contemporary Hierarchical Relations with Russia

Professor Yuval Weber National Research University — Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall A key challenge for post-authoritarian governments is to consolidate political authority;…

2015

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…
Emily Callaci Lecture Filmed by PBS Wisconsin University Place

On October 29, 2025, Professor Emily Callaci‘s lecture “Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement” was filmed by University Place for PBS Wisconsin. In this lecture, Professor Callaci tells the story…
Day of the Badger 2026

SAVE THE DATE: April 14 – April 15, 2026 Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 14 – April 15, alumni, friends,…

2014

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…
Emily Callaci Lecture Filmed by PBS Wisconsin University Place

On October 29, 2025, Professor Emily Callaci‘s lecture “Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement” was filmed by University Place for PBS Wisconsin. In this lecture, Professor Callaci tells the story…
Day of the Badger 2026

SAVE THE DATE: April 14 – April 15, 2026 Day of the Badger is an annual campus-wide day of giving. For 1,848 minutes on April 14 – April 15, alumni, friends,…

2013

Honored Instructors Melissa Charenko and Toshihiro Higuchi

December 2013 History of Science graduate student Melissa Charenko and Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow Toshihiro Higuchi have been named Honored Instructors for their contributions to UW students and their education. This…
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2013

September 6 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 13 (Friday) at Noon Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech “History of Science & Technology and Public Policy: Reflections…
Emily Callaci won First Book Award for junior faculty
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen won the AHA’s biennial Dunning Prize for Best Book in US History
Graduate Student Jesse Gant has co-authored a book about Wisconsin bicycling history

2011

Vilas Research Travel Grant to Scott Prinster

December 2012 Doctoral candidate Scott Prinster has received a Vilas Research Travel Grant in support of his dissertation that explores the scientific critique of religious authority as higher biblical criticism spread in…
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2012

September 7 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 7 (Friday) at 3:00 pm Colloquium: Megan Raby, UW–Madison Title: “Taming ‘Jungle Island:’ The transformation of Barro…
Welcome Pablo F. Gómez

November 2012 The department welcomes Pablo F. Gómez as an Assistant Professor. In addition to a Ph.D. in History of Medicine and Latin American History from Vanderbilt University in 2010, Pablo completed…

2010

Anna Zeide Receives University Exceptional Service Award

December 2011 Congratulations to Anna Zeide who has received a University Exceptional Service Award. This award recognizes outstanding graduate student teaching assistants who, in addition to their regular teaching duties, perform exceptional…
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2011

September 2 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 9 (Friday) at Noon Victoria Nourse, UW–Madison Law School “Progressive Science: The Eugenic Revival of the 1930s.”…
Neil Kodesh’s book Beyond the Royal Gaze is co-winner of the Herskovits Prize

Neil Kodesh’s book Beyond the Royal Gaze is co-winner of the African Studies Association’s prestigious Herskovits Prize.

2009

Inaugural Skott Vigil Memorial Lecture

“A Family Story from Native California: Finding Hidden Histories from the 19th and 20th Centuries” Lecture by William Bauer Associate Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Author of We Were…
Fred Gibbs – Pioneering Data Hound

December 2010 Recent department graduate Fred Gibbs (Ph.D. 2009) and his George Mason University colleague Dan Cohen enjoyed having their recent research work as “pioneering data hounds” discussed in the New York…
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2010

September 3 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions September 10 (Friday) at Noon Kellen Backer, Bridget Collins, Brad Moore, and Scott Trigg, UW–Madison “The TAA, and the place of teaching in a…

2009

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…

2008

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…

2007

All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2007

January 26 (Friday) at Noon Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW–Madison “A Graduate Student’s Guide to Publishing.” February 2 (Friday) at Noon Kellen Backer, UW–Madison February 8 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium:…
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2007

September 7 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Ann Blair, Harvard University “Managing Information in Big Books, 1500-1700.” Location: 6104 Social Science September 14 (Friday)…
Selected Articles and Books

Richard C. Keller, “Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2007): 823-841. Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French…

2006

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…

2005

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…

2004

Lecture: Evan Laksmana

“Reshuffling the Deck?: Organizational Evolution, Officer Promotion, and Military Reform in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia” Evan Laksmana Doctoral Candidate Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University Senior Researcher Center of Strategic and…
NOVA documentary on Typhoid Mary

October 2004 On Oct. 12, 2004, PBS aired a NOVA documentary based on Professor Judith Leavitt’s book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. This documentary, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America,”…
Judith Leavitt named Rupple-Bascom Professor

September 2004 Professor Judith Walzer Leavitt has been named the UW Foundation Chair Rupple-Bascom Professor. These at-large professorships, created with funds from the UW Foundation, recognize faculty for their balanced contributions to…

2003

One Month in Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

Now six weeks into the fall semester, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall teems with history students studying for midterms, grabbing coffee at the Hosto Cafe, and dropping by the new SuccessWorks Gateway…
Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Professors Patrick Iber and Nicole C. Nelson have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships. Eighteen faculty across receive this aware, which is given to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within…
Brandon Bloch Earns 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor of History Brandon Bloch has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award, one of UW–Madison’s highest honors for excellence in instruction, recognizing faculty who have made…

2002

Daniel Thurs garners ILS TA Award

April 2002 History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Daniel Thurs received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Dan on a job well done!
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra wins two AHA Book Awards

March 2002 UW History of Science alumnus Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Assistant Professor in the History department at SUNY-Buffalo, has been awarded two prizes from the American Historical Association for his book How to…
By recent alumna Louise Robbins

January 2002 Louise E. Robbins has published Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). From the publisher: “Based on wide-ranging and imaginative research,…