Author: apsey

2020 Summer Humanities Research Fellows Announced

IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the 2020 SHRF Fellow Cohort.

IRH Mourns Phillip Harth, Scholar of 18th Century English Literature

We are sad to report the passing of Phillip Harth, a Senior Fellow of the IRH from 1977 to 1996.

Steven Nadler Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

IRH Director Steven Nadler (Dept. of Philosophy) was recently elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Guillermina De Ferrari Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

IRH Senior Fellow Guillermina De Ferrari (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2020.

Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995

Robert Wolensky

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Wins a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

IRH Senior Fellow Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Dept. of History) has won a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

IRH Accepting Applications for PA Position: Deadline April 17th

The IRH offering a 50% project assistantship for UW-Madison dissertators, approximately twenty hours per week, for twelve months beginning in September 2020.

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

Elizabeth Hennessy

Elizabeth Hennessy Interviewed by the State Journal about Her Latest Book

Elizabeth Hennessy interviewed about her latest book "On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden."

Nandini Pandey Awarded The CAMWS 2020 First Book Award

Dr. Pandey's "The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography" (Cambridge University Press, 2018) honored.