April 2010 The Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards has honored Professor Judith Leavitt for teaching excellence with a Chancellor’s Award. She will receive this award along with nine of her faculty colleagues at a ceremony on April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center. Having taught at UW–Madison since 1975, Leavitt has developed numerous …
“Stalin and His Team: A New Look at Stalinist High Politics” presented by Dr. Sheila Fitzpatrick Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Department of History The University of Chicago Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:00 – 5:30 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Supported by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Islam in West Africa by Sean Hanretta Stanford University Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:30 pm Fluno Center Auditorium, 601 University Ave. Madison
“Living the Revolution: Italian Immigrant Women’s Labor Radicalism and Transnational Feminism.” Jennifer Guglielmo Assistant Professor of History Smith College Monday, April 19, 2010 4:00 PM 126 Memorial Library Jennifer Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of History at Smith College and the author of the just-released Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York …
UW History graduate students Brenna Greer and Holly Y. McGee have won the prestigious Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Brenna and Holly are the first UW students to receive the fellowship and collectively, they received two of the three awards! Congratulations! “The Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship at the …
February 2010 The University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The application deadline in April 9, 2010. The theme for the 2010 applicants is World Citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome projects on the cultural aesthetic, philosophical, …
February 2010 History of Science doctoral candidates Shannon Withycombe and Bridget Collins are two of the fifteen University of Wisconsin–Madison teaching assistants to receive awards for their contributions to learning on campus. At a ceremony scheduled for March 2, Shannon will receive a Capstone Award while Bridget will be presented with an Early Excellence Award.
February 2010 Dayle B. DeLancey has been named as one of the first two Centennial Scholars at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The Centennial Scholars Program was created to develop faculty whose diversity enhances the quality of education and research at the school, according to Patricia Kokotailo, MD, MPH, associate …
The following text was taken from the article, “Fifteen UW–Madison teaching assistants awarded for service” by Stacy Forster, University Communications. Exceptional Service – Jennifer Hull, History. Hull started the fall 2008 semester as a teaching assistant for her mentor and major adviser, Professor Jeanne Boydston. But two weeks into the semester, Boydston was diagnosed with …