Mathews, Joel
Biography Field
Biography Field
Biography Biography My dissertation project follows from a simple question: when did affirmative action begin in the United States? Origin stories abound within a voluminous and multi-disciplinary academic literature. That said, by the end of the 20th century, a rough scholarly consensus emerged around the idea that policies that granted preferential race- and gender-based access …
Biography I am a historian of childhood, incarceration, and medicine in the US Progressive Era and interwar period. I am especially interested in how social panics are enacted through efforts to manage children’s behavior, particularly girls’ behavior. My dissertation interrogates impact of World War I on girls’ carceral institutions, tracing efforts to police and manage …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the Nixonian origins of conservative television news; seeking to uncover the role that the administration (and its intellectual-political milieu) occupied as a laboratory for image-conscious conservatives in a broader struggle to stem the cultural liberalism unleashed by the “long Sixties”. My other research interests include the intersection of populism …
Biography Biography As a joint Ph.D. student in Educational Policy Studies and History, I am broadly interested in gender, women, and sexuality in the late 20th century United States. My current research focuses on the political history of girlhood from the 1960s to the 1990s, examining girls’ culture and activism in the American high school. …
Biography Biography I study the history of science and technology in the United States. My research interests include human-nonhuman interactions, the built environment, and material culture. Education M.A., University of Utah B.S., Georgia Tech Field
Biography Biography My name is Brand D. Nakashima and I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the UW–Madison History program. My research interests focus on the impact that transnational relationships and geopolitics have on diasporic communities and migratory flows in the 20th century. My dissertation concentrates on the displacement and immigration of Japanese Latin Americans (with …
Biography Biography I’m Sean Nowlan, a current PHD student at UW–Madison. I am person with a passion for Atlantic history during the Early Modern period, keeping one foot on each side of the pond. I like to study military-logistics, finance, and maritime trade; with the ultimate goal of studying how the concepts of “fiscal-military hubs” …
Biography Biography My research interests focus on the military history of colonial America and the early Republic. I am particularly interested in the development of early American military institutions and the relationship of these forces to the societies they were raised to defend. I am also intrigued by the adaptation of eighteenth-century European military thought …
Biography Biography I study the history of leftist radicals in the United States and their interactions with the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the impact of race. My past research has examined the role of Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 secret speech on African Americans within the American Communist Party. Education M.A., Social Sciences (History), …