Cronon to lead AHA annual meeting – January 3 – 6, 2013 When historians gather in New Orleans in January for the 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the UW–Madison History Department will be especially well represented. Bill Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, is the president of the …
UW–Madison News Gerda Lerner, Robinson Edwards Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Wednesday, Jan. 2 in an assisted-living facility in Madison. She was 92 years old. “Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique,” says social and political activist Gloria Steinem. “She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her …
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. He will use this grant for travel to Biola University in Los Angeles to study how evangelical Christians in the …
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 a field station for tropical biology.” Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). September 14 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Rick …
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 CES University, Medellín, Colombia, in 1994. His interests include History of Medicine and Science in the Atlantic World, Latin America, …
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 Washington University Graduate History Conference held October 26-27 in St. Louis. Organized by the university’s history department with “The History …
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 the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press). The Douglass Prize was jointly created by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center …