Month: February 2026

Bad Bunny and UConn History Graduate Program Alum Jorell Meléndez-Badillo’s Collaboration Brings Puerto Rican History to Listeners Around the World

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo’s book, “Puerto Rico: A National History”, brought together the historian of Puerto Rican history and one of the island’s biggest stars to produce visualizer and music video text that would educate fans and spotlight crucial context for the 2025 DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS album’s songs.

Bad Bunny contacted professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo who now works at UW Madison when planning the album’s online music video releases. The album won Album of the Year, and some of the songs were performed at the Super Bowl LX halftime show featuring Bad Bunny bringing history to football fans and avid listeners alike for the most watched halftime show ever.

You can read an article by Professor Meléndez-Badillo on working with Bad Bunny here:

Essay: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages – Los Angeles Times

And read a UW-Madison article about the collaboration here:

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. – UW–Madison News

Professor Brendan Kane on teaching, learning and researching Early Modern Gaelic in a digital age

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On November 5, 2025, Professor Brendan Kane presented a research seminar titled “Teaching, learning and researching Early Modern Gaelic in a digital age: Léamh.org and the practice of collaborative digital humanities.” The event was hosted at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, a college in the west of Scotland. The talk discussed ongoing efforts to teach people Early Modern Irish and Classical Gaelic, using the innovative Léamh.org, a web tool that uses games and other methods to assist users in learning grammar and reading digitized manuscripts. 

You can watch a recording of the talk here