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Two New History Faculty Members

Robert S. Smith received his Ph.D. in History from Bowling Green State University in 2002. His areas of interest include legal history - specifically the intersection between race and law, African American history and Constitutional history. His primary focus engages civil rights era legal activism and beyond, considering developments before and after mid-twentieth century upheavals. He will be teaching courses on African American history, including "African Americans and the Legal Process.” Using law as the prism through which to explore African American history, that course interrogates the unique relationship(s) between law, the evolution and maintenance of “race” as a socio-legal construct, racism and racial identity.

Katherine Paugh received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Her research interests include gender and slavery in the early modern Black Atlantic world, the early modern history of medicine in the Atlantic world, and understanding the history of early America in transnational context. She will be teaching courses focused on these topics at UWM next year. She has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Sarah Lawrence College. She has received grants and fellowships from Harvard's International Seminar on Atlantic History, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Faculty in the News

Margo Anderson and Victor Greene
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Jeffrey Merrick
UWM Today, UWM Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence