Congratulations to Professor Judith Houck, who is one of twelve faculty members chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Houck, a professor in History and Gender & Women’s Studies, was selected to receive the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award, which recognizes achievements in …
Lucas Richert, Associate Professor and George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy and History Department faculty affiliate, has published a new book titled Cannabis: Global Histories (MIT Press, 2021). The book, co-edited by Lucas Richert and James M. Hills, provides a wide-ranging geographical, temporal, and thematic view of cannabis, as both intoxicant and therapeutic substance, through …
Professor Gregg Mitman‘s new book, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, will be available this November 2021 from The New Press. “In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew …
Patrick Walsh, who recently published an article in the Journal of the History of Biology. Titled, “Making a French Connection: Darwin, Brown-Séquard and the Epilepsy Studies,” Walsh’s article contributes to a long debate in the history of biology about the fraught relationship between Charles Darwin and French biologists in the 1860s, prompted by the controversial publication of On …
An article featuring Professor Richard Keller’s course, History of Science 553: International Health and Global Society, was published last week in the Wisconsin State Journal. The piece addresses the return to in-person teaching this fall that many instructors have experienced for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. Keller, a Professor of …
Congratulations to graduate student Samm Newton, who has received the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship from Sea Grant and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions …
Congratulations to Professor Pablo Gómez, a recipient of the 2021-2022 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship! The Romnes Fellowship recognizes and supports tenured faculty and their research. Professor Gómez holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Department of Medical History & Bioethics here at UW–Madison. His work examines the history of health and corporeality in …
Professor Elizabeth Hennessy has received the 2021 Leopold-Hidy Best Article Award for her 2020 publication in the journal Environmental History. The Leopold-Hidy Award is given by the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History in recognition of superior scholarship. Selected by the Environmental History editorial board, the award is based on elegance …
Congratulations to Professors Elizabeth Hennessy and Christy Clark-Pujara, who have received a 5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative for “Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine”! According to the grant: “There are two significant barriers to just futures in the sciences: lack of awareness of histories of …
Congratulations to Professor Lynn Nyhart, who has been appointed a WARF named professorship! “These awards, which come with $100,000, honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities.” Nyhart was one of eleven faculty selected to …