Recently graduated history major Daniel Ahrendt (B.A. December 2018), has received the 2019 Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research from the Center for the Humanities! The Iwanter Prize is an annual award of $2,000 given to a graduating senior who, “through a senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen recently published an opinion piece for The New York Times, titled “The Vicious Fun of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle.” The article reflects back on the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the Algonquin Round Table, a regular gathering of writers, actors, critics, and wits that began in 1919 and lasted …
The History Department will remember Dr. Colin Palmer (Ph.D. 1970), who passed away on June 20, 2019 in Kingston, Jamaica. An alumnus of our program and a giant in his field, Palmer helped to expand the study of the African diaspora and the Atlantic slave trade over his 40-plus year career as a historian. Palmer …
As one of our instructors teaching an online History course this summer, Brian Hamilton decided to engage his students in producing a podcast interview for Edge Effects magazine, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment at UW–Madison. The students of History 227 – Race and Environment in the History of the …
The History Department Remembers Professor Emeritus Frank “Mike” Clover Professor Emeritus Frank “Mike” Clover passed away on Saturday, July 13th, 2019 at the age of 79. Clover received his B.A. from UW–Madison in 1962, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. He then taught in our department for 34 years, joining the …
This summer, the Department made a post on social media about the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. One of our alumni, Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017), reached out to let us know that she had written a report for the Wisconsin State Legislative Reference Bureau on that very topic. We wanted to …
Newly-minted alumnus Sebastian van Bastelaer (B.A. 2019), recently had part of his senior thesis published as an article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Sebastian graduated from our program this spring with honors in the major. His thesis, titled “Paroisses Indociles” (Unruly Parishes): A Reconsideration of Habitant Loyalties and the Historiography of the American …
ARCHIVE, the University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of History, has recently published their 22nd volume! Editor-in-Chief John Douglas, along with editors Samuel Bertsch, Isabelle Cook, Jack Kelly, Grant Haxton, Hillary Miller, Marissa Miller, Jake Price, and Owen Tortora, worked hard this past year to produce a volume that encompasses writing from students at UW, to …
Alumna Brenna Wynn Greer (PhD, 2011) has recently published her first book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and advertising that forged a close association between blackness and Americanness. Greer is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and …
History graduate students Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interviewed Joseph Ho for the TransAsia and the World podcast about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photography. Learn about cultural encounters between Americans and China in the early twentieth century, the unique position of American missionaries in …