Faculty Highlights

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  Sackley Awarded

  Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and american studies, was awarded a $2,000 VFIC Mednick Memorial Fellowship for her project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.

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  Sackley Awarded

  Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and american studies, has been awarded a $50,000 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for her project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.

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  Sackley receives funding

  Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American Studies, received a $2,000 grant from the Friends of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries for her new project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.

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  Kahn Awarded

  Michelle Kahn has been awarded the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize by the German Historical Institute.

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  Brandenberger National Grant

  Dr. David Brandenberger, Professor of History and Global Studies, has been awarded a $18,000 Title VIII National Research Competition Grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research for "The Leningrad Affair: The Purge of Stalin’s Would-Be Successors, 1949-1952."
  

   
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  Ayers named to Leadership Council

  Dr. Edward L. Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and President Emeritus, was named a charter member of the St. John's Church Foundation Leadership Council.

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  Drell Presentation

  History professor Joanna Drell was invited to speak at a meeting Palermo, Sicily in early October on the topic of medieval immigration of northern Italians down to Sicily. The meeting was coordinated by the Office of Medieval Studies and the Cultural Circle of the ‘Marquises of Monferrato.’

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  Ayers elected to Colonial Williamsburg board

  Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was elected to the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

• Summers Article

  History professor Carol Summers published "Scandal and Mass Politics: Buganda's 1941 Nnamasole Crisis" in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
  

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  Seeley Fellowship

  History professor Samantha Seeley has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book project, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”