ARCHIVE is the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Undergraduate Journal of History. An institution founded on the principle to promote and showcase exceptional undergraduate historical scholarship, ARCHIVE is proud to serve as a platform for undergraduate historical work from both history and non-history majors. Each spring, the ARCHIVE Editorial Board diligently works to critique, edit, and publish articles from not only UW-Madison students but students from US-based and international universities. For more information on ARCHIVE or how to submit a paper to the editorial board, please visit: https://uwarchive.wordpress.com.
If you would like to join the ARCHIVE editorial board, please write to uwarchive.hist@gmail.com or contact Scott Burkhardt at stburkhardt@wisc.edu.
Editorial Board
John Douglas, Editor-in-Chief
John Douglas is in his last year as an undergraduate; his majors are accounting and history. John is fortunate enough to have the opportunity to return to the ARCHIVE editorial board for a second year. He studies the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Central Asia, the Middle East, and Russia, and works primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Muslim reform movements; 20th-century Islamist movements; and the evolution of Muslim identity during the 20th century. He is currently working on a senior thesis under the supervision of Professor David McDonald, which questions how academics of the Judeo-Christian West received Jadidism, a 20th-century Muslim reform movement in Central Asia. Those receptions in turn help to illuminate the broader ways in which “Western” academics conceptualize the evolution of Central Asian Muslim identity during the 20th century.
Sam Bertsch, Editor
Samuel Bertsch is a senior majoring in history and political science with a certificate in Southeast Asian studies. As a student of Southeast Asia, Sam decided to spend a semester at the National University of Singapore, a decision he made in part to familiarize himself with the region and to get a true sense of its politics. His historical interests focus on post-World War II US foreign policy (the covert realm, specifically), along with colonial and post-colonial Southeast Asian history. He is currently working on a senior thesis (under the supervision Professor Alfred McCoy) that focuses on the individuals who helped shape US foreign policy objectives in South Vietnam during the 1950s and 1960s.
Isabelle Cook, Editor
Isabelle Cook is in her second year, studying history and Russian. This is her first year as an ARCHIVE editor. Her academic interests focus on the Second World War, the Cold War period, and the Soviet Union. She has just entered the advanced level of her Russian studies, where she has the opportunity to read Crime and Punishment in its original language. Outside the classroom, Isabelle loves to read the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and biographies of monumental leaders. She is a member of UW’s Model United Nations team, a barista at Colectivo Coffee, and the manager of the UW Men’s Rugby Club. Having spent part of her life in the European Union, Isabelle hopes to live abroad again upon graduating; she hopes to work for the government or pursue a career in academia.
Jack Kelly, Editor
Jack Kelly is a senior double majoring in history and journalism. His academic interests include the development of single-party states, Depression-era pugilism, and the role and impact of the media in elections. Jack currently works as a reporting and engagement intern for Wisconsin Health News, a news organization dedicated to covering healthcare, healthcare policy, and general health news in Wisconsin. He has previously held multiple positions with The Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison’s independent student newspaper, and has also reported for a variety news organizations in both Illinois and Wisconsin. Following graduation this May, Jack will attend graduate school at Northwestern University to receive a Master’s of Science in Journalism; he will specialize in Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Grant Haxton, Editor
Grant Haxton is a senior triple majoring in geography, history and political science, and proudly refers to the greater Los Angeles area as home. He has taken interdisciplinary courses on Europe and the United States, and has earned a certificate in European Studies, which has allowed him to study abroad in both Croatia and Greece. This past fall, Grant explored the migration history, political economy, and urban development of Europe and the U.S. in his History 600 seminar, Migration and Me: Researching Family Stories. Outside academia, Grant has interned in a state legislative office in Madison and a congressional office in Washington, D.C. as a part of the University’s “Wisconsin in Washington” program. He is also an active member of the University’s water polo club team; he is the club’s former co-president and team’s former co-captain. Upon graduation this spring, his interests in politics, international relations, and cross-cultural dialogue will serve him well as he enters the Army’s Officer Candidate School next fall.
Hilary Miller, Editor
Hilary Miller is a senior studying political science, history, and Jewish studies. Her academic interests include diasporic Jewish affairs, Israeli politics and society, genocide studies, and the history of antisemitism. Her capstone research focused on the 1948 assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte carried about by radical Jewish terrorists. Hilary is a former Editor-in-Chief of ARCHIVE, an editor for Sifting & Winnowing: An Undergraduate Journal of Political Science, Public Policy, and Law, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Avukah: UW-Madison’s Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Studies. She has previously interned for the Consulate of Israel to the Midwest and the American Jewish Committee. Hilary is currently the Communications and Development Intern for the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. After graduating, Hilary wants to pursue a career in global Jewish advocacy with the specific aim of combating antisemitism.
Marissa Miller, Editor
Marissa Miller is a senior finishing her studies in anthropology, archaeology, and history. Her interests focus on the history and archaeology of the high medieval through the early modern period of the Celtic-speaking west. She is currently working on a senior thesis that investigates the Tudor period in Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland through the experiences and reactions of the intellectual elites known as the Gaelic learned service families. This topic came to her while studying abroad at the National University of Ireland – Galway. Her other research includes two archaeological excavations on an island off the west coast of Ireland, a place known as Achill Island. During the 2017 season, she helped excavate the exterior of a Middle Bronze Age roundhouse where she found the remains of a fulacht fia (burnt mound), used for cooking in the Late Bronze Age. She returned to Achill as a supervisor during the 2018 season to excavate the remains of a nineteenth-century, pre-Famine house in the abandoned village of Keem. After graduation this spring, she will attend graduate school at the University of Glasgow to receive a Master’s degree in Conflict Archaeology and Heritage.
Jake Price, Editor
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ake Price is a senior double majoring in economics and history with a certificate in environmental studies. While he considers himself to be a history generalist, the majority of his studies focus on American economic and land development and their contemporary political and social implications. His academic interests also include studying the global effects of British and French colonialism; he is particularly interested in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Outside the discipline of history, Jake has worked as a policy intern for Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor researching the environmental and economic effects of acid mining in the state, along with criminal justice reform. Following graduation this spring, Jake plans to move back to California and work in state government with hopes of focusing on both housing and environmental policy. Jake hopes to attend graduate school and receive a Master’s degree in Public Policy in the near future.
Owen Tortora, Editor
Owen Tortora is a junior double majoring in history and political science with an interest in public policy. His academic interests include United States History from the mid-20th century to the present, particularly mid-20th century American foreign affairs. Owen is currently an intern for Wisconsin State Representative Jill Billings; he conducts policy research, drafts memos on a variety of issues, and engages in constituent relations. Outside of the classroom, Owen plays a crucial role in the Hoofers Ski and Snowboard Club, an organization for which he will serve as president next year. A proactive member of the club, Owen has directed a resale event (the largest of its kind in the Midwest), as well as serving as the Director of all local ski trips. Upon graduating next fall, he hopes either to work as a legislative aide for the Wisconsin State Assembly or to work in governmental relations with an environmental organization. Regardless of his career path, during that time Owen will prepare to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE); he hopes to attain a Master’s degree in Public Policy.
Susan Lee Johnson, Faculty Advisor
Susan Lee Johnson is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy as well as the W. Turrentine Jackson First Book Award from the Western History Association. Susan recently completed final revisions on a second book manuscript that is under contract with University of North Carolina Press, a book still in want of a title. In the early 1980s, Susan worked on the editorial staff of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and is thrilled to be back in the publishing world again, working with such a terrific group of editors. Next fall, Susan will join the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, filling the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West.
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