The closest major airport is about 25 minutes away, in Appleton. The University focuses on both teaching and research. Additionally, our faculty make frequent use of our borrowing privileges at UW Madison. The University has an impressive program to support faculty research, and members of the department have been very successful in winning that research money regularly. Our department is engaged and dynamic.
All faculty members are active in research, conference-going, and publishing.
Faculty members in our department have recently published books with or gotten book contracts with the University of Pennsylvania Press, the University of Chicago Press, and the Johns Hopkins University Press and have published articles in journals such as Viator, the Journal of Social History , and many others. At the same time, we are dedicated and innovative educators. A member of our department was recently awarded the University's Distinguishd Teaching Award. Last revised October 2000.