Congratulations to Chad Alan Goldberg, REI Fellow 2021-2022, on his appointment as Martindale-Bascom Professor.
Year: 2021
Navigating Neutrality Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic
Sandra Moats
Simon P. Newman Awarded Charles Warren Center Faculty Fellowship
Newman has been selected as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Warren Center for Studies in American History, working with the Center’s 2021-2022 research theme of “Slavery and the Universities.”
Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama
James M. Bromley
The Dream of Absolutism: Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity
Hall Bjørnstad
Simon Newman Launches “Runaways” Project
Taking the historical work of Simon Newman and Dr. Peggy Brunache as the starting point, Runaways’ poets Abena Essah, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Momtaza Mehri and Memoona Zahid, and artists Tasia Graham and Olivia Twist investigate archival silences.
Francine Hirsch Receives Book Awards for Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Francine Hirsch’s book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg, has received the 2021 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, as well as the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro
Book Festival Talk: When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People
Steven Nadler (IRH Director) and Lawrence Shapiro (IRH Senior Fellow, 2017-2021) will give a talk at the Wisconsin Book Festival on 10/23 at 11:00am in the DeLuca Forum of the Discovery Building.
Yuhang Li’s book wins the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award
“Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China” (Columbia University Press) by Yuhang Li (Art History, UW–Madison, Resident Fellow, 2017) has won the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award from the American Academy of Religion.