University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2015

Susan Friedman Publishes a New Book

IRH Director Susan Friedman has published a new book, titled Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, with Columbia University Press. For more information, click here.

Emily Callaci Receives ACLS Fellowship

Resident Fellow Emily Callaci has received a 2015 ACLS Fellowship for her book project, titled Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania. For more information, click here. 

Mary Louise Roberts at the Chicago Humanities Festival

Former Senior Fellow Mary Louise Roberts will speak about her book, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, in October at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Citizens. For more information, click here.

Sara Trevisan Writes about “History and tradition”

Solmsen Fellow Sara Trevisan publishes “History and tradition: Genealogical practice before 1700” on the Public History Commons. For more information, click here. 

Incoming Fellows for 2015-2016

The Institute for Research in the Humanities is pleased to accounce its Fellows for the 2015-2016 academic year. For the names of incoming fellows, click here. 

Costica Bradatan Publishes Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of Philosophers

Former Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan has published Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of Philosophers with Bloomsbury Academic. For more information, click here.

Karen Britland, Jordan Zweck, and Craig Werner Receive Distinguished Teaching Awards

Former Resident Fellows Karen Britland and Jordan Zweck and former Senior Fellow Craig Werner were selected to receive three of the twelve UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards granted this year. For more information, click here. 

Darien Lamen Receives Multimedia Award

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Darien Lamen has received the Multimedia Award from Wisconsin Without Borders for his documentary, created in collaboration with Commissǎo Pastoral da Terra-Anapu, Pará Brazil and entitled “Caminhando e Cantando (Walking and Singing): The Pilgrimage of the Forest in the Brazilian Amazon” (2014). For more information, click here.