March 2011 Recent graduate Shannon Withycombe has been named a New Faculty Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and will join the History department at Duke University for the academic years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. This fellowship program allows recent Ph.D.s in the humanities to take up two-year positions with an American university …
January 2011 Professor Richard Staley has joined the Editorial Board of the journal Isis as an Advisory Editor for 2011-2013. Published on behalf of the History of Science Society by the University of Chicago Press, Isis is the official publication of the society. Well done Richard!
January 2011 Jeffrey M. Jentzen (Ph.D. 2007) talks about his recently published dissertation (now book) concerning death investigation in America on the February 1, 2011, episode of PBS/Frontline titled “Post Mortem.”
January 2011 Two awards from the UW–Madison Graduate School have been given to History of Science department faculty members. Professor Lynn K. Nyhart has received a Kellett Mid-Career Award and Professor Richard C. Keller has been awarded a H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. Both awards are intended to recognize and support tenured faculty and are …
January 2011 Department alumnus Michael F. Robinson (Ph.D. 2002), assistant professor of history at the University of Hartford, will appear in the American Experience documentary “The Greely Expedition” to be broadcast on PBS January 31, 2011.
“Pomp” and His Circumstances: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball and It’s Implications for Understanding the History of Sport and Society Adrian Burgos joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UICU) faculty in 2001 and is currently a professor of history in the Department of African American, Latin American and Caribbean …
“Pomp” and His circumstances: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball and Its Implications for Understanding the History of Sport and Society” a lecture by Professor Adrian Burgos Department of History, African American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Latina/Latino Studies at University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Thursday, January 27th 4:00 – 5:15 …
At its annual meeting in Honolulu, the Association for Asian Studies awarded the George McT. Kahin Prize this year to Professor Alfred W. McCoy for his book “Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State” (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). The George McT. Kahin Prize of the …
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