As she wraps up her senior year at UW–Madison, Cat Carroll is preparing for a journey unlike any other: a year-long global trek across seven countries to explore the human stories behind migration. Cat, a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and IRIS NRC FLAS awardee, was recently named as the College of Letters & Science Wolff Fellow for 2025. The Wolff …
Graduating senior Catherine “Cat” Carroll (majors in journalism and mass communication, international studies and German with certificates in public policy, European studies, Middle East studies and Arabic language and culture) has been awarded a 2025 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. Carroll’s project “Critical Care: Two Nations, One Crisis, and the Race for Healthcare Workers” …
Controversial bestselling German author Juli Zeh has hit the headlines repeatedly for her involvement in political discussions, including Covid lockdowns and Germany’s military support for Ukraine. Should writers speak their minds, or let their literature do the talking? De Gruyter Brill discussed this question and more with Sonja Klocke, co-editor with Necia Chronister (Kansas State …
GNS+ extends congratulations to Morgan Cacic for receiving the Graduate Student Service Scholarship! The Graduate Student Service Scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. While service can come in many different forms and all service to the university is …
The Karpat Scholarship provides awards to selected students who take Turkish Language courses. The scholarship offers $500 to each recipient in their first year of Turkish Language instruction at UW-Madison, and $1,000 to each recipient in their second year of Turkish Language instruction. Typically, two new recipients of this award are selected annually. These awards …
Description The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies (KCTS) invites applications for travel grants of up to $1000 to support current UW-Madison PhD students in good academic standing and working in any area of Turkish Studies (broadly defined), including Anatolian archaeology and Byzantine Studies. The grants are intended to assist with travel costs: Academic Staff …
Former GNS+ German program graduate student Mark Kloiber recently had an excellent article published in the Army University Press titled “Principled Empathy: Perspectives of an Afghanistan Veteran”. You can read the full article on:Army University Press’ website.
On Saturday, October 9, 2021, Vilas Research Professor of German emeritus Jost Hermand died unexpectedly. Hermand joined the then Department of German (now in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+) in 1958 and helped put the Department – and the UW-Madison – on the map nationally and internationally.
GNS+ welcomes one of our newest lecturers Melissa Sheedy. Melissa received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In and outside of the classroom, she is always ready to talk about Romanticism, fairytales, GDR and post-GDR literature, feminist ecocriticism, and her cats. What language/fields of study do you work in? I am in German Studies, …
When did you graduate and with what degrees? I graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor’s Degree in German, French and International Studies and a Certificate in European Studies and in 2015 with a Masters in French and International Education. What are you doing now? I am a Career Development Manager at a business school in …