Category: News and Announcements

Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, new publications, and changes at the IRH.

April 1st “Seeing the Invisible” Lecture Cancelled

The April 1st lecture at 3:45 p.m. from the “Seeing the Invisible” series by Daniel Rosenberg has been canceled. The next lecture in the series on April 14, Daniel Garber – “Making the Spiritual World Visible: Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Witches and Ghosts” will take place as planned at 4:00 p.m. in Special …

Patrick William Kelly Wins World History Association Dissertation Prize

A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Patrick William Kelly has been awarded the World History Association’s Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Sovereignty and Salvation: Transnational Human Rights Activism in the Americas in the Long 1970s.” For more information, click here.

Lee Wandel Publishes New Book and Appointed WARF Named Professorship

Former Senior Fellow Lee Wandel has published Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion. She has also been appointed to a five year named professorship through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. For more information, click here and here.

Steve Stern to receive Hilldale Award in Arts and Humanities

Senior Fellow Steve Stern will receive the 2015-2016 Hilldale Award in Arts and Humanities for his contributions to teaching, research, and service. For more information, click here.

Katarzyna Olga Beilin Publishes In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics

Former Resident Fellow Katarzyna Olga Beilin has published In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain. For more information, click here.

Theresa Kaminski Publishes Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II

Former UW System Fellow Theresa Kaminski has published Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. For more information, click here.

Andreas Schwab Awarded Grant for Research Project on “Religion in Ancient Narrative”

Solmsen Fellow Andreas Schwab has been awarded a 2016-2017 Research Mobility Grant for his project “Religion in Ancient Narrative” through the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. The grant supports this interdisciplinary project in conjunction with scholars from Classics, Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and Religious Studies from Europe and the United States.

David Krugler Publishes 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back

Former UW System Fellow David Krulger has published 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back. For more information, click here.

Vincent Lloyd Publishes Co-edited Volume Race and Secularism in America

Kingdon Fellow Vincent Lloyd has published the co-edited volume, Race and Secularism in America. For more information, click here.

Costica Bradatan’s Dying for Ideas to be Published in Several Foreign Languages

Former Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan has published a book, Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, which is being translated into several foreign language editions including Chinese, Dutch, Turkish, and Vietnamese. For more information on the Dutch translation, click here.