- Greg Carter’s Book AwardedCongratulations to Dr. Greg Carter, whose book, I'd Just as Soon Kiss a Wookie: Uncovering Racialized Desire in the Star Wars Galaxy, won the Midwest Popular Culture Association's Award for Best Single Work. Way to go, Greg!
- Department NewsNathan Connolly Delivers 6th Annual McGaffey Lecture on Family History and Capitalism N.B.D. Connolly On April 2, we had the privilege of hosting the 6th annual McGaffey Lecture with speaker Nathan Connolly of Johns Hopkins University. The lecture, “Letters from the Ancestors: Family History and our Capitalist Future.” Draws from four generations of family archives, Connolly explores how Caribbean family histories reveal the …
- Faculty NewsNew Faculty Alert Professor Xin Yu Please help us in welcoming Professor Xin Yu, Assistant Professor, Buck Professor of Chinese History to UWM.Professor Yu joined the department after completing his PhD in 2022 from Washington University in St. Louis and was drawn to UWM by the strong sense of community he experienced during his campus …
- Letter from the Former ChairAs the former chair of the UWM history department, it is my pleasure to share with you the first department newsletter in this new electronic format. A lot has changed since we last produced one, but I can look back on my two years as chair with some satisfaction. Reading the reports linked to here …
- Student NewsUWM's History Department's Student Accolades Many of our graduate students have been recognized for their outstanding efforts and we want to celebrate those accomplishments: exploding party popper with serpantin and serpantinom, vector eps10 illustration Sadique Oddoye, current MA student, will be attending the PhD program in African History at the University of Miami. Congratulations Sadique! …
- A Spirit of Revolt PublishedA Spirit of Revolt: Conrado Alvillar and the Rank-and-File Wobblies of the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike is being released October 13, 2026 – CONGRATULATIONS, Michael! A tale of solidarity in the Colorado coal fields. A Spirit of Revolt examines the lives and histories of mine workers who were at the center of an understudied statewide strike …
- Lisa Silverman’s Book HonoredCongratulations to our own Lisa Silverman! Her recent book, The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity after the Holocaust was recently named a short-list finalist for the German Studies Association's David Barclay Book Prize, awarded to the best monograph (in English or German) on the social, cultural, economic, political, or labor history of nineteenth-century and twentieth-century …
- UWM’s Retrolab Welcomes Doors Open MilwaukeePart nostalgic digital playground, part digital and technological history lesson, UWM’s Retrolab in Holton Hall 402 is one of just four such retro computing labs in the entire country. Its collection of some 50 vintage computers dates back to the 1970s – from PCs and Apple Macintosh machines to legends like the Apple II, Atari …
- Rick Popp, Telephony ExpertCheck out this 99 Percent Invisible podcast. The discussion features the introduction of the Inward Wide Area Telephone Service (INWATS), more commonly known as the 800 number. Our own Rick Popp is an expert interviewed extensively in the podcast!
- RetroLab in the NewsThomas Haigh and his RetroLab are spotlighted in an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today. Way to go, Tom!
- Celebrating the Career of Distinguished Professor Martha CarlinMartha Carlin Martha Carlin is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she has been a faculty member since 1990. Over more than three decades at UWM, she has become a deeply respected historian and a consistent, welcoming presence in the department. She was named Distinguished Professor in 2023, …
- Successful PhD Defense: Celebrating Kyle StarkeyKyle Starkey, PhD, Enjoying a Happy Moment Kyle Starkey has just earned his PhD in History and we wanted to share his important dissertation information. Congratulations Kyle! Kyle's dissertation examines the history and development of the Verband der Heimkehrer (VdH), a West German organization representing former prisoners of war (POWs) from its founding in 1950 …