Professor Elizabeth Hennessy’s recently published book, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (Yale University Press, 2019), has been featured in the New York Review of Books. …
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Professor Gregg Mitman Receives Prestigious Grant from European Research Council
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, …
Professor Gregg Mitman Featured in Interview on Epidemics & Medical History
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 …
Alumna Anna Zeide Receives 2019 James Beard Award
Anna Zeide (Ph.D. 2014) an alumna and current Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University has received the 2019 award for best Reference, History and Scholarship book from the James Beard Foundation! Zeide won …
Professor Hennessy Writes About Galapagos Conservation in Washington Post
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy has written an article for the Washington Post titled “We’re trying to keep the Galapagos pristine. That might destroy them.” The piece talks about recent efforts to preserve biodiversity in the Galapagos, …
Professor Hennessy Longlisted for 2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy, whose book On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (Yale University Press) was published this year, is on the longlist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson …
UW History of Science Ph.D.s garner awards!
When the History of Science Society handed out its awards and prizes on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at its annual meeting (in Utrecht, Netherlands—the first HSS meeting ever in Europe!), UW-Madison History of Science Ph.D. …
Graduate Student Patrick Walsh has Article Published in Australian Feminist Studies Journal
Patrick Walsh, a graduate student in the Department of History at UW-Madison, has just had his first article published in the peer-reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies! The article is titled, “Experimenting with ‘Life’ in Nineteenth-Century Physiology: …
New Book from Honorary Fellow to be Released in Fall 2019
James Ungureanu, a current honorary research fellow in the Department of History at UW-Madison, has a new book that is due to be released this fall. Ungureanu is a historian of science and religion, and …
Faculty Receive Vilas Professorships and Awards
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 …