In a press release this week, it was announced that Professor Gregg Mitman had received a coveted Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council. Mitman is a Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at UW–Madison, and is an affiliated researcher with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at …
Professor Gregg Mitman, a scholar of medical history and environmental studies, is featured today in an interview with the College of Letters & Science discussing what we can learn from global epidemics in a historical lens. Professor Mitman has studied the historical path of infectious disease outbreaks across centuries and the globe, and has released …
Four faculty members have received Vilas Professorships and Awards this year! Professor Francine Hirsch (Russian & European History) received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as outstanding efforts in teaching and service. This Professorship will provide five years of research funding. Professors Nan Enstad (U.S. History) and Neil Kodesh …
Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in the Department of Afro-American Studies. In the classroom, all three challenge old narratives with different perspectives and insights, as well as diversity. View …
Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. Although conflicts in contemporary Africa have emerged …
With the support of an IRIS Incubator Grant and a Holtz Center Thematic Cluster Grant, Neil Kodesh (History), Tony Goldberg (Pathobiological Sciences), and Josh Garoon (Community and Environmental Sociology) initiated a collaborative research cluster from 2016-18 on Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research in Africa.” The goal of the cluster is to develop …
Emily Callaci, assistant professor of history, and Mitra Sharafi, associate professor at the Law School, have been offered Summer Stipend awards by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the first time two UW–Madison nominees have been awarded NEH Summer Stipends in the same year. “This is a very competitive program,” explains Lea Jacobs, …
Caitlin Tyler-Richards, History PhD candidate in African History, has won a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at the University of Washington Press for 2018-2019. This prestigious fellowship will allow Caitlin to continue work on her dissertation, “‘I Wish You All Vivid’: Nigerian Literature in a Post-Colonial Word”. Formerly a student of Florence Bernault and now …
“Conservation, Prevention, and Rescue: Saving Gorilla Populations in Eastern and Central Africa” Julius Nziza Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project & UC-Davis Wildlife Help Center Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Dr. Julius Nziza obtained his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and is currently completing a Master of Science degree in International Infectious Disease …
“The Many Africas of the Grey Parrot” Nancy Jacobs Professor of History Brown University Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary African coffee roasted locally by JUST COFFEE.