Star UW history professor Jeremi Suri wants to shake things up

Jeremi Suri is on a mission. He wants the UW-Madison, where heâ??s a rising-star history professor, to be bolder, more daring, more adept at reaching out. Unafraid of controversy.More, come to think of it, like Suri himself.”We should be a place that takes risks [and] pushes boundaries between disciplines and in the way we teach,” says Suri in a tone that is both friendly and urgent. “Iâ??m frustrated by the fact that, for all we talk about being on the cutting edge here, we are very resistant to risk-taking, very resistant to thinking about our mission as citizens and intellectuals.”