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Kathryn Ciancia publishes new book

Posted on November 24, 2020

Kathryn Ciancia’s new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020) is now available. Description: As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an …

Posted in 2020, All News, Books, European History, History News, Jewish History

Professor Aaron Rock-Singer Publishes Article on Islamic Religious & Social Movements

Posted on October 29, 2020

Professor Aaron Rock-Singer has a new article in the journal Religions, titled “Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements.” “This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, Middle Eastern & North African History

Professor Mou Banerjee Writes About Teaching Colonialism in History

Posted on October 16, 2020

For a roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History, Professor Mou Banerjee has written an introduction focused on “Decolonizing Pedagogy: History as a Reckoning with the Past.” Of her own teaching, Professor Banerjee states: “When I …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, South Asian History

Edward Coffman (1931-2020)

Posted on September 22, 2020

Edward McKenzie Coffman, distinguished military historian and revered teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on September 16, 2020, at Thomson-Hood Veteran Center in Wilmore, Kentucky.  He was 91. “Mac” Coffman was born in Hopkinsville, …

Posted in 2020, All News, Emeriti, History News, Memorials

Welcome New Faculty

Posted on August 31, 2020

Brandon Bloch – Faculty Page I am a historian of modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany and its global entanglements. My research and teaching foreground questions of democracy, citizenship, and human rights. I am …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News, Shared News

Professor Francine Hirsch Publishes New Book

Posted on August 20, 2020

Physical copies of the book are now available! Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the International Military Tribunal …

Posted in 2020, All News, Books, European History, History News

André Wink publishes new book.

Posted on August 18, 2020

In a new accessible narrative, André Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the …

Posted in 2020, All News, Books, Emeriti, History News

Professor Gloria Whiting Publishes Article in William and Mary Quarterly

Posted on August 7, 2020

Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in the early American history journal, William and Mary Quarterly. Titled “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court,” the …

Posted in 2020, All News, Gender and Women’s History, History News, U.S./North American History

Richard Sewell (1931-2020)

Posted on August 7, 2020

On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Richard Herbert Sewell, aged 89, passed away peacefully at Agrace Hospice. Richard was born April 11, 1931, in Ann Arbor, Mich. to Herbert and Anna (Broene) Sewell. Like them, he …

Posted in 2020, All News, Emeriti, History News, Memorials

Thomas J. McCormick (1933 – 2020)

Posted on August 7, 2020

Thomas Joseph McCormick Jr., emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on July 25 at the age of 87. Tom earned his Ph.D. at UW–Madison in 1960, after receiving his Master’s …

Posted in 2020, All News, Emeriti, History News, Memorials
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