Laura Godden, MA 2011, has been an archivist in the Special Collections and Area Research Center at Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for the past three years.
Monica Drake Pierce, a recent MA graduate, has become Director of the Lake Wales Depot Museum in Florida.
The Department and the College of Letters and Science hosted Attending to Early Modern Women June 18-20, an international interdisciplinary conference of scholars interested in women, gender, and sexuality in the early modern period.
Kevin Kolesari, a recent graduate, published an article that began as a research paper written in the department’s History 600 capstone course,
Dawson Barrett (PhD 2013), will be on tour this summer promoting his new book, Teenage Rebels: Stories of Successful High School Activists from the Little Rock 9 to the Class of Tomorrow.
Hue Knew? An Exploration of Color, an exhibit by 13 graduate students in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/MPM Museum Studies Program, went on display at the Milwaukee Public Museum in May.
An anonymous donor has established the Professor Bud Weare Scholarship Fund in honor of Emeritus Professor Bud Weare, “who inspired the Donor during the Donor’s time as a UWM student.”
The Delta Phi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society, inducted eight new members at a ceremony and reception on Friday, April 10.
Shifting Gears: A Cyclical History of Badger Bicycling, an exhibit based on the 2013 book Wheel Fever: How Wisconsin Became a Great Bicycling State by Jesse Gant and Nicholas Hoffman, published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Nick Hoffman (MA, History ’07) was awarded the Jane LaChapelle McCarty-MLK Community Leader Award at January’s annual Appleton community celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.