January 22 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, UW-Madison “Blood Testing and Fear …
History News
2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars to Andrew Stuhl
January 2017 Andrew Stuhl, a History of Science department alumni who earned his Ph.D. in 2013 and is now Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, has been awarded a 2017 DHST …
Forthcoming book by Professor Pablo F. Gómez
January 2017 Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s forthcoming book, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, will come out in April from University of North Carolina Press. As described by …
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2017
January 20 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Rachel Gross, History “Wear a hat to keep your feet warm, and other lessons from the Science of Dressing during World War II.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2016
September 9 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester. For the remainder of the hour, we’ll have an informal discussion about current problems with academic publishing, which seems increasingly dysfunctional. …
Post-Soviet Lustration and Contemporary Hierarchical Relations with Russia
Professor Yuval Weber National Research University — Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall A key challenge for post-authoritarian governments is to consolidate political authority; one of the …
What’s in a Name?: Searching for the African Origins of “Samba” and “Zumbi” in Brazil
Marc Hertzman Professor of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:30 – 5:00 PM 8417 Social Science This presentation explores the contours and significance of prolonged searches for African origins of …
Megan Raby wins 2016 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize
November 2016 History of Science alumna Megan Raby has received the 2016 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize presented at the recent History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting in Atlanta. Awarded for the best article in …
Stitching Wartime History: The Case of the French Resistance
Enjoy a special afternoon with textile-collection donors and friends of the School of Human Ecology featuring Stitching History from the Holocaust, an original exhibit created by and on loan from the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee. …
Professor Jackson gives keynote talk at recent ASGS meeting
October 2016 Catherine Jackson, Assistant Professor in the History of Science department, gave the keynote talk at the recent meeting of the Midwest Section of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society (ASGS) held on September 24th …