{"id":4396,"date":"2022-11-14T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/?page_id=4396"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:51:08","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/celebrating-the-career-of-distinguished-professor-martha-carlin\/\">Celebrating the Career of Distinguished Professor Martha Carlin<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-13T15:18:57-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 13, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Martha 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\u00a0consistent, welcoming presence in the department. She was named Distinguished Professor in 2023, &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/successful-phd-defense-celebrating-kyle-starkey\/\">Successful PhD Defense: Celebrating Kyle Starkey<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-13T11:20:18-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 13, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Kyle 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&#039;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 &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/the-wizard-of-holton-hall-celebrating-lex-renda\/\">The wizard of Holton Hall: Celebrating Lex Renda<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-12T16:00:19-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 12, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Professor Lex Renda at Green Bay Packer&#039;s game Lex&nbsp;Renda&nbsp;is Associate Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliated Associate Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee, where he devoted more than thirty-three years to teaching, research, service, and leadership before retiring in 2025. A specialist in nineteenth-century U.S. history,&nbsp;Renda&nbsp;focused his scholarship on the Civil &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/uwm-faculty-affiliates-publish-new-works-across-history-culture-and-society\/\">UWM Faculty &amp; Affiliates Publish New Works Across History, Culture, and Society\u00a0<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-27T15:45:20-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 27, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">From Wisconsin\u2019s brewing past to postwar Europe and even the world of science fiction, UWM faculty and affiliates are producing work that brings new perspectives to familiar stories. Their latest publications highlight the depth, creativity and impact of the university\u2019s academic community. Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them\u00a0 &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/marcus-allen-uncovering-overlooked-histories-through-research-and-teaching\/\">Marcus Allen: Uncovering Overlooked Histories Through Research and Teaching<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-21T14:08:26-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 21, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Professor Marcus Allen The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee History Department welcomes Assistant Professor Dr. Marcus Allen, whose work brings new depth to the study of African American history through an economic lens. Dr. Allen\u2019s path to UWM reflects more than a decade of persistence, movement, and scholarly growth. Over the course of his career, he has &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/inside-uwms-retrocomputing-lab-where-students-experience-the-digital-past-firsthand\/\">Inside UWM\u2019s\u00a0Retrocomputing\u00a0Lab: Where Students Experience the Digital Past Firsthand\u00a0<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-15T15:28:31-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 15, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Students in HIST 399: \u201cHow the Computer Became Universal\u201d are not just learning about the history of&nbsp;computing;&nbsp;they are experiencing it.&nbsp; During a recent class session, students visited the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee\u2019s&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab,&nbsp;located&nbsp;in Holton Hall 402. The lab, created and&nbsp;maintained&nbsp;by technology historian&nbsp;and professor&nbsp;Thomas Haigh, offers a&nbsp;special&nbsp;hands-on opportunity to explore the machines, software and materials that&nbsp;shape&nbsp;the digital world.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/uwms-history-departments-student-accolades\/\">UWM&#8217;s History Department&#8217;s Student Accolades<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-13T09:38:04-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 13, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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! Patrick Hall, PhD student in &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/nathan-connolly-delivers-6th-annual-mcgaffey-lecture-on-family-history-and-capitalism\/\">Nathan Connolly Delivers\u00a06th\u00a0Annual\u00a0McGaffey Lecture on Family History and Capitalism<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-08T15:05:45-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 8, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On April 2,\u00a0we had the privilege of hosting the 6th annual McGaffey Lecture with speaker Nathan\u00a0Connolly of Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0The lecture,\u00a0\u201cLetters from the Ancestors: Family\u00a0History and our Capitalist Future.\u201d\u00a0Draws from four generations of family archives, Connolly explores how\u00a0Caribbean\u00a0family histories reveal the lived\u00a0realities\u00a0of racialized\u00a0capitalism,\u00a0economic precarity and structural inequality.\u00a0 At the heart of the lecture was Connolly\u2019s &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/student-spotlight-frischa-aswarini-selected-for-international-feminist-learning-program\/\">Student Spotlight: Frischa Aswarini Selected for International Feminist Learning Program<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-03-30T12:48:12-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 30, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee is proud to highlight PhD student Frischa Aswarini, for her participation in Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (SPP) &#8211; The School of Women\u2019s Thought, an international initiative dedicated to amplifying women\u2019s voices and knowledge. The semester-long program, which runs from February 7 through June 6, 2026, brings together &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/uwm-remembers-historian-david-d-buck\/\">UWM Remembers Historian David D. Buck<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T16:24:30-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 11, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community mourns the loss of David Douglas Buck, professor emeritus of history and a longtime supporter of the university. Buck passed away on March 6, 2026, in Milwaukee at the age of 89. A respected scholar of modern Chinese history, Buck dedicated more than three decades to teaching and research at &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/new-faculty-alert\/\">New Faculty Alert<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-02-09T08:05:22-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 9, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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 visit. His research focuses on the &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/spring-latin-table-2\/\">Spring Latin Table<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-01-29T13:25:44-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 29, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Thursdays, 4-5 pm CRT 866 Practice spoken Latin! 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