WUWM 89.7 FM recently featured Professor Joseph Rodriguez in a report about the history of the terms used by people of Latin American ancestry to describe their ethnic identity. The interview can be found at WUWM’s site.
Congratulations to History MA student Marissa Gavin, whose article detailing the ongoing struggle to prohibit the building of the Thirty Meter Telescope, an advanced space observatory, on the sacred site of Mauna Kea mountain on the island of Hawai’i was published this summer by the History News Network.
Congratulations to Professor Chia Youyee Vang who is the recipient of one of the historical profession’s top honors. This fall Professor Vang was made a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. The Distinguished Lectureship Program facilitates keynote addresses by leading historians in a variety of fields in US history. Professor Vang will offer several lectures related to Hmong refugee resettlement in the United States and the Vietnam War.
Congratulations to the UWM History Department 2021-2022 Student Award Winners Undergraduate Student Awards: Ahmad Family Scholarship: Mason Meyer A.T. Brown Award for History Undergraduates: Marshall Hoff David Hoeveler Merit Scholarship: Kassidee Bergdoll and Samantha Danczyk Professor Bud Weare Scholarship: Noor …
MaKEing History is a new blog created and curated by UWM History graduate students. Be sure to check back regularly for new posts, essays, calls for papers, and student profiles.
As part of this year’s Research Showcase, the department celebrates the new inductees of its honor society, Phi Alpha Theta. The department congratulates this year’s new members: Amber J. Bein Kassidee A. Bergdoll Michelle L. Evans Julia E. Hanley Zalen …
On April 22, 2021, the Department launched this year’s Research Showcase! On the site, 11 undergraduates, 2 graduate students, and 6 faculty present brief videos about their research. The work spans a wide range of interests and all are encouraged …
We’re excited to be back in classrooms in the fall, and the department has posted its list of courses. Unlike the generic course descriptions used in the official campus catalog, the descriptions posted here are prepared by the faculty every …
Please have a look at the fall list of graduate courses. The descriptions posted here are prepared by the faculty to give the students a fuller and more current idea of what the courses will be all about.
The department has posted its list of graduate courses for the Spring 2021 semester. Check them out!
