Congratulations to our chair and professor, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, who has been awarded with the 2026 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award! Dr. Clark-Pujara joins twelve other faculty members who have been chosen to receive this year’s honor. Commencing in 1953, the Chancellor’s Award recognizes some of UW-Madison’s finest educators.
Dr. Clark-Pujara is a historian of colonial North America and the early American Republic. Her research focuses on the experiences of Black people in French and British North America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. She is particularly interested in retrieving the hidden and unexplored histories of African Americans in areas that historians have not sufficiently examined—small towns and cities in the North and Midwest.
Join Dr. Clark-Pujara in one of her classes on African American history, slavery and capitalism, or slavery and emancipation during the spring or fall semesters here at UW-Madison.
Learn more about the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients here.