December 2012 Doctoral candidate Scott Prinster has received a Vilas Research Travel Grant in support of his dissertation that explores the scientific critique of religious authority as higher biblical criticism spread in the United States. …
2012
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2012
September 7 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 7 (Friday) at 3:00 pm Colloquium: Megan Raby, UW-Madison Title: “Taming ‘Jungle Island:’ The transformation of Barro Colorado Island into …
Welcome Pablo F. Gómez
November 2012 The department welcomes Pablo F. Gómez as an Assistant Professor. In addition to a Ph.D. in History of Medicine and Latin American History from Vanderbilt University in 2010, Pablo completed his M.D. at …
Selig visit offers History undergrads rare opportunity
History course teaches students to think globally about Pearl Harbor
Vicki Fama garners Best Paper Award in St. Louis
October 2012 Third-year graduate student Vicki Fama received the best paper award for her paper titled “Heroes and Villains: Displaying and Viewing Bodies at the United States Army Medical Museum, 1862-1888” at the recent 2012 …
Jim Sweet wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of …
William Appleman Williams: “It just might catch on”
Professor Rick Keller handles the heat!
August 2012 Read about Professor Rick Keller’s research on the 2003 heat wave that gripped Europe and Paris in particular. Two recent news articles tell the whole story: “Forget blizzards and hurricanes, heat waves are …
2011 Roy Porter Prize to Bradley Moore
August 2012 Bradley Moore, a dissertator in the Joint PhD Program in History and the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, has been awarded the 2011 Roy Porter Prize. Presented by the Society for the …