Fall 2026 Newsletter
Welcome to the October 2026 edition of For The Record, the Department of History’s Newsletter! If you look at the menu titled “On This Page,” you’ll see the table of contents. Or just scroll down to see all the sections, from profiles of alumni to general news around the department.
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From the Chair
- 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 from our …
Student News
- 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! …
Department News
- 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 News
- 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 …