January 2011 Two awards from the UW–Madison Graduate School have been given to History of Science department faculty members. Professor Lynn K. Nyhart has received a Kellett Mid-Career Award and Professor Richard C. Keller has been awarded a H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. Both awards are intended to recognize and support tenured faculty and are …
“Pomp” and His Circumstances: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball and It’s Implications for Understanding the History of Sport and Society Adrian Burgos joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UICU) faculty in 2001 and is currently a professor of history in the Department of African American, Latin American and Caribbean …
“Pomp” and His circumstances: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball and Its Implications for Understanding the History of Sport and Society” a lecture by Professor Adrian Burgos Department of History, African American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Latina/Latino Studies at University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Thursday, January 27th 4:00 – 5:15 …
At its annual meeting in Honolulu, the Association for Asian Studies awarded the George McT. Kahin Prize this year to Professor Alfred W. McCoy for his book “Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State” (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). The George McT. Kahin Prize of the …
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Congratulations to Jennifer Miller and Vanessa Walker (current graduate students) and Udi Greenberg and Adi Gordon (two recent Mosse graduate fellows) for publishing major articles, based on their dissertation research, in the current issue of the Journal of Contemporary History. http://jch.sagepub.com/content/current
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 Times. Their project involves the charting of title words, such as ‘Science’ and ‘Christianity’, in all books printed in the English language in …
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 graduate career.” September 17 (Friday) at Noon Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick “Global Histories of Medicine.” September 24 (Friday) at Noon Rana Hogarth, …
Robert McCune Kingdon, Hilldale Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, beloved mentor of generations of Reformation scholars and path-breaking historian of the Reformation, died on Friday, December 3, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin. He will be missed by many friends, colleagues and students whose lives he touched over the years. He was the …