September 5 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 12 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Michael Shank, History of Science, UW–Madison “Rethinking Mathematical Culture from Pythagoras to Cusa: David Albertson’s Mathematical Theologies (Oxford, 2014).” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 19 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, …
November 2014 Robert Siegfried, professor emeritus of the History of Science department and its first Ph.D. awardee, passed away on September 2, 2014. Siegfried taught in the department for many years after completing his doctorate in 1952 titled “A Study of Chemical Research Publications from the United States before 1880” under Robert Stauffer. Known for …
November 2014 Hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez, History of Science and Medical History and Bioethics, who has received a 2014-15 “First Book Award” from the UW Center for the Humanities. Pablo’s book, titled Wondrous Bodies: The Early Modern Caribbean and the Imagination of the World, builds on his extensive research into the …
November 2014 Graduate student Melissa Charenko has received a research award from the Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholars program at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She plans to use this award next year to look at Margaret B. Davis’s papers at the University’s Archives for her dissertation on the history of pollen analysis and paleoecology. …
Professor Gregg Mitman participated in a Congressional briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis in Washington, D.C. The briefing was be held on Monday, November 17, 2014 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in the Gold Room (2168) of the Rayburn House Office Building 45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20515 More event information can be …
The U.S. Green Energy Transformation: Controlling Climate Change and Expanding Job Opportunities Professor Robert Pollin Distinguished Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts-Amherst and alumnus of the UW Department of History Thursday, November 6, 2014 5:00 – 6:30 PM The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street reception to follow: 6:30-7:30 PM In 2010 the United States produced …
Congratulating Kathryn Ciancia who has been awarded the Center for the Humanities “First Book Award.” Kathryn follows Emily Callaci, Daniel Ussishkin, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen in winning the award. “The Center’s First Book Award is funded by a short-term humanities programming grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation. The First Book program is open to all tenure-track, junior …
Congratulations to Bill Reese, who recently learned that his book Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History (Harvard, 2013) is this year’s winner of the annual book award from the History of Education Society. Reese also won the 2014 O.L.Davis, Jr. book prize from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum. These prestigious prizes follow …
October 2014 The 58th Midwest Junto for the History of Science will take place on 17-19 April 2015 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Organized by the History of Science department, this meeting invites paper submissions on any aspect of the history and philosophy of science, technology, or medicine, and, per tradition, graduate students are especially …
October 2014 Soon-to-arrive Assistant Professor Catherine Jackson has been awarded the 2014 Liebig-Woehler-Freundschaftspreis, or Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award, by the Göttinger Chemischen Gesellschaft and Museum der Göttinger Chemie for her work in the history of organic chemistry, including the 2014 article “Synthetical Experiments and Alkaloid Analogues: Liebig, Hofmann and the origins of organic synthesis” in Historical Studies …