"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.
The IRH would like to congratulate Kayci Olson Harris(History, UW-Madison, IRH Dana-Allen Fellow 2020-2021) on successfully defending her dissertation.
Steven Nadler, IRH Director, has been named Vilas Research Professor.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's essay, "Sensing Black Coral," first presented at the Monday Seminar, has been published in International Studies in Literature and Environment.
IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the 2021 SHRF Fellow Cohort.
Bethany Moreton, former IRH Kingdon Fellow, published an article titled "Our Lady of Mont Pelerin" in Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics Vol. 2.1.
The IRH would like to congratulate Lindsay Wells, IRH Dana-Allen Fellow 2020-2021, on successfully defending her dissertation titled, "The Cultivation of Beauty: Indoor Gardening and the British Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900".
Senior Fellows Incoming Senior Fellows (2021-2025): Francine Hirsch (History, UW–Madison), “Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia and America” Mario Ortiz-Robles (English, UW–Madison), “Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals” Anne Vila (French and Italian, UW–Madison), “Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives and Afterlives of the Convulsionnaires in French Culture and Theory (18th …
Carolyn Eichner's book Franchir les barricades: Les femmes dans la Commune de Paris (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020) has been short-listed for the Prix Augustin Thierry, awarded by the city of Paris.
Nan Goodman's article titled "From the Northern Parts of Virginia to 'Cape-Cod' A Mayflower Thesaurus" was recently published in the journal Early American Literature.
