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 and class of 1956 History and Political Science major, deliver the keynote commencement speech. Selig gave graduates some guiding advice: “Regardless of the …
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 of James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra. The notes are based on his book, The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth …
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 Prize from the American Historical Association “for the teaching aid which has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of …
After 43 years of teaching, Professor John Sharpless will be retiring at the end of this month. Professor Sharpless has taught American history and political history at UW–Madison since 1975. Some of his former students returned to campus on Tuesday and attended his last lecture for the class, “History since 1945,” to honor the impact …
The Business History Conference has awarded the 2018 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History to Dr. Rachel Gross (Ph.D. 2017) (https://rachel-gross.com/). Enterprise and Society published a summary of the project, “From Buckskin to Gore-Tex: Consumption as a Path to Mastery in Twentieth-Century American Wilderness Recreation.” The prize citation noted that “the …
Modern Language Association of America has announced that it would be awarding David A. Chang (Ph.D. 2002) with its third MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. David Chang is a professor of history at University of Minnesota, and his research focuses on indigenous peoples, colonialism, as well as borders and …
Christine Lamberson (PhD, 2012) was featured in October’s issue of Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association for her work conducting oral history interviews with veterans in West Texas. She co-authored an article on the project with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai. Both Lamberson and Wongsrichanalai are associate professors in the Department of History at …
Al McCoy’s essay, “Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster,” is featured on TomDispatch.com “As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded onto the world stage with their own bold geopolitical visions for winning international …
Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise to power of synthetic organic chemistry in nineteenth century Germany. In her own words, “It’s a story of personal ambition …
Piotr Puchalski is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at UW–Madison (advised by Kathryn Ciancia). His research was recently featured on the website of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he is currently a Silas Palmer Fellow, conducting his dissertation research on the interwar Polish state’s engagement in colonial ideas and actions. The Hoover Institution, …