May 2011 Amrys Williams received a 2011 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship in connection to her dissertation titled “Cultivating Modern America: 4-H Clubs and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century.” Congrats Amrys.
2011
Mitman elected president of the ASEH
May 2011 Congratulations to Gregg Mitman who has been elected President of the American Society for Environmental History for a two-year term starting in 2013. Mitman will be the third UW-Madison professor to lead the …
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2011
January 18 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Kellen Backer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: “Feeding the Army: The Quartermaster Corps and the Creation of a Global Food System in World War II.” Location: 976 Memorial Library …
Senior Thesis Presentations were presented on Monday, May 9th
Cornell College of Human Ecology Fellowship to Williams
April 2011 Amrys Williams is the recipient of the 2011 Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics from the Cornell College of Human Ecology. This fellowship includes a $6,000 stipend to support a six-week …
Lynn K. Nyhart Receives Guggenheim Fellowship Award
April 2011 Professor Lynn K. Nyhart has received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship Award in recognition of her many prior achievements and exceptional future promise. She was chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants and …
John Rudolph new Science Education Editor-in-Chief
April 2011 History of Science faculty associate John L Rudolph will be the next editor of the journal Science Education. During the summer of 2011 the editorial office and operation of the journal will move …
AAHM Lifetime Achievement Award to Judith W. Leavitt
April 2011 For her many distinguished academic contributions, Professor Emerita Judith W. Leavitt was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) at their recent 2011 annual …
Inaugural Skott Vigil Memorial Lecture
“A Family Story from Native California: Finding Hidden Histories from the 19th and 20th Centuries” Lecture by William Bauer Associate Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Author of We Were All Like Migrant …
Shannon Withycombe Named ACLS New Faculty Fellow
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 …