February 2010 The University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The application deadline in April 9, 2010. The theme for the 2010 applicants is World Citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome projects on the cultural aesthetic, philosophical, …
February 2010 History of Science doctoral candidates Shannon Withycombe and Bridget Collins are two of the fifteen University of Wisconsin–Madison teaching assistants to receive awards for their contributions to learning on campus. At a ceremony scheduled for March 2, Shannon will receive a Capstone Award while Bridget will be presented with an Early Excellence Award.
February 2010 Dayle B. DeLancey has been named as one of the first two Centennial Scholars at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The Centennial Scholars Program was created to develop faculty whose diversity enhances the quality of education and research at the school, according to Patricia Kokotailo, MD, MPH, associate …
The following text was taken from the article, “Fifteen UW–Madison teaching assistants awarded for service” by Stacy Forster, University Communications. Exceptional Service – Jennifer Hull, History. Hull started the fall 2008 semester as a teaching assistant for her mentor and major adviser, Professor Jeanne Boydston. But two weeks into the semester, Boydston was diagnosed with …
“Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg — arguably the historian most responsible for promoting studies of intercultural and interreligious interactions in the South Asian context — the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, top-down historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenberg’s own Indocentric, bottom-up approach, thus accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of …
September 4 (Friday) at Noon Judy Kaplan, UW–Madison Introductions followed by a brown bag talk by Judy, topic “The Long Rangers: pre-historical linguistics from Moscow to Michigan.” September 11 (Friday) at Noon Sarah Pfatteicher, UW–Madison “Lessons Amid the Rubble: 8 Years After the World Trade Center.” September 18 (Friday) at Noon “Discussion – Michael Pollan’s …
Professor Florence Bernault just guest-edited a special issue of France’s international flagship journal in African Studies, Politique Africaine on the recent events in Gabon (Equatorial Africa). Last June, Omar Bongo Ondimba, the longest serving president of sub-Saharan Africa, died. With him, a much criticized regime of 40 years ended. Or did it? The presidential elections in August 2009 installed …
Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821–24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Originating …
October 2009 Lynn Nyhart has won the 2009 Susan E. Abrams Prize for the best book in the history of science published by the University of Chicago Press in the previous two years, for her book Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Nyhart has also …