Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987) has published a new book about foreign political and military intervention in Africa

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Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. Although conflicts in contemporary Africa have emerged …

Bailey Albrecht recently won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to Japan for 12 months

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Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education office. “These are prestigious awards that speak volumes about the caliber of the …

UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account

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In celebration of American Archives Month, UW–Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account this morning. They are the Archives’ inaugural Student Historian in Residence. Read more about Rena and their work for the Archives here. October has been celebrated as American Archives Month since 2006, an initiative of the …

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History course is featured in OnWisconsin

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For the sake of learning — and with occasional family healing — a UW history course is asking students to turn their parents into historical subjects. Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History 221 course, The History of Your Parents’ Generation (1970s–90s), tackles a tumultuous few decades through a generational lens, assigning students to interview their parents (“compelling …

Article – “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” by Chad S.A. Gibbs

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In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, he could identify only sixty-eight survivors. Analysis of Donat’s early findings—emerging six years prior to the publication of any major …

Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research in Kibale National Forest

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With the support of an IRIS Incubator Grant and a Holtz Center Thematic Cluster Grant, Neil Kodesh (History),  Tony Goldberg (Pathobiological Sciences),  and Josh Garoon (Community and Environmental Sociology) initiated a collaborative research cluster from 2016-18 on Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research in Africa.” The goal of the cluster is to develop …

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Project

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Each year on Constitution Day (September 17), David Fields (UW–Madison Department of History, Ph.D., 2017) and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution (CSAC) likes to call attention to the fact that the entire corpus (to date) of the monumental Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (DHRC) is available online for free. …

Welcome New Faculty

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Paige Glotzer – Faculty Page I research the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century. My first book, entitled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, is currently under contract with Columbia University Press for its Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series. It charts how suburban developers, including …

Pablo F. Gómez Wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize

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Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic wins the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize Official Press Release Indianapolis, Indiana– University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s The Experiential Caribbean (UNC Press, 2017) has won the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions. Gómez’s carefully-researched …

Article – “The politics of a natural laboratory: Claiming territory and governing life in the Galápagos Islands” by Elizabeth Hennessy

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The Galápagos Islands are often called a natural laboratory of evolution. This metaphor provides a powerful way of understanding space that, through scientific research, conservation and tourism, has shaped the archipelago over the past century. Combining environmental histories of field science with political ecologies of conservation biopower, this article foregrounds the territorial production of the …