Category: News and Announcements

The IRH is thrilled to congratulate Carolyn Eichner (UW System Fellow, 2020-2021) for being awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Paris, France for 2022-2023!

This camp (May 23–26, 2022) provides participants with an introduction to writing funding proposals.

Kasey Keeler is leading the project, “Mapping Dejope: Indigenous Histories and Presence in Madison,” which will collect histories from UW and Dejope community members — past and present — to reveal the Indigenous histories and presence of this shared environment.

Steven Nadler, IRH Director, will give a virtual lecture titled "Menasseh ben Israel, Spinoza and Rembrandt" on January 31st.

Congratulations to Chad Alan Goldberg, REI Fellow 2021-2022, on his appointment as Martindale-Bascom Professor.

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."

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'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.

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.