Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Jackson, who has received a First Book Award from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities! Professor Jackson’s book, titled Material World: Making Modern Chemistry, will explain the rise …
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Dan Stolz’s book featured on Social Science Research Council forum
Professor Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018), was featured in a book forum on The Immanent Frame, an interdisciplinary web journal on religion, …
Welcome New Faculty
Paige Glotzer – Faculty Page I research the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century. My first book, entitled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, is currently under contract with …
Feminist Faculty Book Party
A Room of One’s Own is honored to welcome the the fifth Annual Feminist Faculty Book Party! This year, we convene to celebrate the recently released work of: Emily Callaci Shelly Chan Kathryn Moeller Nicole …
History of Science Brown Bag – Galen Poor
“The Four Great Inventions: A Global History of Modern China.” Galen Poor History Ph.D. Candidate (Chinese History, History of Science and Technology) Friday, April 20, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) …
Lecture – Michelle Murphy
“Rethinking Chemical Exposures towards Decolonial Futures” Michelle Murphy Professor of History & Women and Gender Studies Institute University of Toronto Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:00-5:30 PM 8417 Social Science How does settler colonialism shape the …
History of Science Brown Bag – Emily Callaci
“Injectable Development: The Global Imaginaries of Depo-Provera in the 1970s” Emily Calacci History Department UW-Madison Friday, April 13, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 20th Friday, …
History of Science Brown Bag – Fritz Davis
“Life as the History of Science in a Department of History.” Fritz Davis Friday, April 6, 2018 12:00 – 1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 13th Friday, April …
Lecture – Lynn K. Nyhart
“The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology” Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science, UW-Madison History IRH Senior Fellow Monday, April 2, 2018 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 …
History of Science Brown Bag – Irene Toro Martinez
“‘Unfortunately, he did not survive to keep that appointment’: Death, Prison Protest and Health Care Reform at Fox Lake, WI, 1972-1975” Irene Toro Martinez UW-Madison, History Department Graduate Student Friday, March 23, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM …