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Mellon Foundation Grant Establishes New Faculty Positions in Asian History history.wisc.edu FALL 2009 NEWS Mellon Foundation Grant Establishes New Faculty Positions in Asian History PROFESSOR LOUISE YOUNG The History Department plans to begin searches for two or three of the new he History Department will receive positions this coming academic year and funding for as many as six faculty complete the searches over the following Tpositions in Asian history through a two years. Two of the searches will be in generous grant received by the College of Chinese history (one modern, one pre- Letters and Science from the Andrew W. modern), one in modern South Asia, and Mellon Foundation. The grant is part of a one in Central Asia. The remaining two po- Mellon Foundation initiative to support the sitions are defined in transnational terms— E-mail your humanities at public research universities. It one focusing on intra-Asian diasporas (such correspondence to: will provide funds over three years to initi- as Chinese migration to Southeast Asia or historynewsletter@ ate new faculty positions focusing on inter- South Asian migration to the Middle East) lists.wisc.edu. disciplinary research and teaching on cross- and the other focusing on transnational regional and transnational connections, both East Asia and elsewhere throughout the within Asia and between Asia and the West. world. The new faculty will work with their Inside this issue: For the History Department, the grant colleagues in the History Department as represents an opportunity to rebuild and well as dozens of area studies experts in Message from the substantially expand its Asian, transnational, other departments on campus. Chair 2 and international history programs. Joan Wallach Scott 3 Life Stories from Students and Alumni 4 UW African History at 50 6 Kaplan Undergraduate Fellowship 7 E-Book Test 8 Retirements 9 Undergraduate Advisor Scott Burkhardt 10 Spring Reception 11 It’s easier than ever to update your profile and e-mail address in the online John Rowe (’67, J.D. ’70) CEO Exelon Corp. with undergraduates Alumni Directory after his March 2009 talk “What Can You Do with a History Major.” at: uwalumni.com. Message from the Chair, David McDonald elcome to this year’s edition of the Through times of challenge and plenty alike, History Department’s annual newslet- History has managed for more than a century Wter and my last as department chair. to maintain its place among the leading depart- My colleagues and I hope that you find these ments in the country through our continued yearly missives a warm reminder of your time ability to attract outstanding scholar-teachers. spent in the classrooms and offices of Bascom Each generation of our students can point with Hall or the Humanities Building, and of the pride to “their” teachers, whether Frederick memorable faculty, TAs, and fellow students Jackson Turner, Merle Curti, William Appleman whose combined contributions have made this Williams, George Mosse, Harvey Goldberg, or department such a vital contributor to UW– Gerda Lerner. Each of these scholars blazed Madison, the historical profession, and to the new trails in scholarship while inspiring succes- larger world into which you all have made your sive generations of undergraduates and gradu- way. As always, this issue chronicles the continu- ates alike. More recent graduates might recall ing achievements of our faculty, students, and, as such colleagues as Jim Donnelly, John Cooper, Professor David McDonald important, the impressively broad community of and Bill Courtenay, or the late Jeanne Boydston, alumni whose accomplishments bring pride and who left us far too soon last November. Each of honor to us all. the last four years has seen members of our de- Indeed, it is the accomplishments and the partment recognized with Chancellor’s Teach- loyalty of our alumni that have most gratified ing Awards: Jeremi Suri, Suzanne Desan, Rudy me during my service as department chair. As Koshar, and Mary Louise Roberts. Not surpris- I have met or renewed old friendships with so ingly, each of these scholars has also “changed many of you across the country, I have found it the conversation” in their respective fields— a source of great pride to see the sheer diver- modern international, French revolutionary, sity and quality of the lives you have made for German social and intellectual, and modern yourselves—as lawyers, educators, practitioners European women’s history. In their teaching of various trades and crafts, activists and leaders and their writing, they and their colleagues in your individual callings. At the same time, honor and continue Wisconsin’s tradition of I have felt humbled by the warmth so many creative independence of mind, scholarly rigor, of you express in your association with our and dedication to teaching undergraduates and department and in what we tried to teach you, the next generation of professional historians. but above all in your many contributions to the Alumni and friends help sustain the vibrancy Department of History, even during such trying and excitement of history as a pursuit, as a times as those we now live in. guide for approaching and living life, and as a As I prepare to pass the metaphorical torch way of seeing and interpreting the world whose to my successor, I want to remind all of us that returns long outlast more finite skills applied to the History Department continues to excel in more immediate ends. Awareness and pride in the areas that have always made us a special the special Wisconsin history experience, our place on campus and in our profession. I want shared heritage grounded in excellent teach- also to reassure all of you that my colleagues and ing and scholarship, and our common devotion I will keep striving to strengthen the ties that to critical thought: your loyalty to these values bind the community of those who have passed ensure that our department will maintain the through our portals —our current students, staff, excellence and distinction that have so indelibly and faculty, and those who will follow us in the stamped the practice of history in this country. years to come. (Let’s hope they get to do so in a As I make way for my successor, I thank you for new building!) your continued support. 2 University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of History Joan Wallach Scott (PhD ’69) Awarded an Honorary Degree PROFESSOR MARY LOUISE ROBERTS oan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Insti- Jtute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, was awarded an Honorary Degree at the UW Commement in May. The History Department, in conjunction with the Women’s Studies Department, had the honor of nominating Professor Scott for the degree. She received her PhD in history from UW– Madison forty years ago in 1969, studying with Professors Harvey Goldberg, William R. Taylor, and George L. Mosse. In a re- University Princeton Studies, Advanced for Institute the of courtesty Photo cently published essay, Scott recalls with great fondness the ebullient, intellectually intense atmosphere at the UW–Madison in the 1960s, where she balanced course work with activism. Professor William R. Taylor’s teaching method in his course on American intellectual history had a formative effect on Scott. “He was more Professor Joan Wallach Scott provocative than authoritative; it was not mastery, but discovery that he was after,” she ing of who we are and how a just society might remembers, concluding, “the best teaching I’ve be framed.” done has been modeled on Taylor’s teaching.” Professor Scott has also fought valiantly for After earning her PhD at UW–Madison, Scott free speech rights of professors, researchers, served on the faculties of Northwestern Univer- students, and librarians. From 1999 to 2005 sity, the University of North Carolina–Chapel she served as the chair of the American Asso- Hill, and Brown University. At Brown, she was ciation of University Professors’ Committee on the founding director of the Pembroke Center Academic Freedom—the famous Committee for Teaching and Research on Women. In 1985, “A” that is responsible for reviewing challenges Professor Scott accepted a position at the Insti- to academic freedom from a great variety of tute for Advanced Study. sources, including state and federal govern- In receiving her honorary degree, Professor ments, political groups, and academic adminis- Scott was recognized for her groundbreaking trators. Scott’s deep and abiding commitment to scholarship and her tireless efforts on behalf of struggle for the protection of academic freedom academic freedom. Many scholars have argued was in great part forged at UW–Madison. Scott that Scott’s landmark book, Gender and the has written and spoken repeatedly about her Politics of History (1988), initiated the field of admiration for the University of Wisconsin’s gender history. It won the American Historical courage in refusing to fire Richard Ely in 1894 Association’s prestigious Joan Kelly Prize for for his pro-labor beliefs. And she often quotes the best book in women’s history that year, and in her lectures and essays the research mis- has been translated into many languages. The sion statement of her alma mater: “Whatever American Historical Association when present- may be the limitations which trammel inquiry ing the 2009 Award for Scholarly Distinction to elsewhere we believe that the great State Uni- Scott said “Few historians have had a greater versity of Wisconsin should ever encourage that impact on the field of history, and through it, continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by on the ways in which society understands and which alone the truth can be found.” Scott also acts on its framing of fundamental issues like quoted the statement in her acceptance speech the nature of social relations between the sexes, at commencement.
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