August 2009 The department welcomes Dayle B. DeLancey to the department. Her interests and research include 19th- and 20th-c. history and ethics of African-American health experiences, U.S. public health (esp. vaccination and disaster relief campaigns), medical technologies (esp. vaccines and pharmaceuticals), the public understanding of medicine (esp. fears, myths, and rumors), and race and gender …
Thomas G. Andrews has been named one of three recipients of the 2009 Bancroft Prize for his book Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), a study of the 1914 massacre of striking coal miners in Colorado. One of the most coveted honors in the field of history, the Bancroft is …
April 2009 History/History of Science doctoral candidate Brad Moore has received a Fulbright-IIE grant in support of a dissertation on public health in the former Czechoslovakia (tentatively titled “Healthy Comrades: The Stalinization of Public Health in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1948-1956”). He plans to begin his year of overseas research in the summer of 2009.
April 2009 History/History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Kellen Backer received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Kellen on a job well done!
March 2009 Walt Schalick and Monica Green (Arizona State University) have received a grant from the NEH for “Disease in the Middle Ages,” a seminar planned for Summer 2009 at the Wellcome Centre in London.
April 2009 Lynn K. Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Richard Staley, Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
The Parallel Press at the UW–Madison Libraries has published a collection of essays to honor the long and distinguished career of the noted UW–Madison historian of fascism, and of contemporary Spain. The book Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne is co-edited by three former Payne students Brian Bunk, …
In honor of the memory of William A. Brown, who passed away recently, a group of his friends, colleagues, and alumni/e have launched a drive to establish the William A. Brown Memorial Lecture Fund. Income from the fund will be used to fund an annual lecture on Islam and Islamic Culture in West African History, …