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May 2004 The Office of International Studies and Programs of the University of Wisconsin has awarded $30,000 to Richard Keller and co-PI Warwick Anderson for their project “Globalizing the Unconscious: Cross-Cultural Encounters with Colonial Psychoanalysis.”

April 2004 Judith Walzer Leavitt, the Ruth Bleier WARF professor of medical history, history of science and women’s studies, has received the 2003-2004 Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities Division from the University of …

April 2004 Professor Gregg Mitman has received a National Humanities Center Fellowship for academic year 2004-2005 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005-2006, for his project, “Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America.”

October 2003 In October 2003, the University of Chicago Press will be releasing When Science and Christianity Meet, co-edited by David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers. Three volumes of their jointly edited eight-volume Cambridge History of …

April 2003 Professor Ronald L. Numbers received the 2002-2003 Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities Division from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The prestigious Hilldale Awards, which recognize excellence in teaching, research and service, are …

April 2003 History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Brent Ruswick received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Brent on a job well done!

April 2002 History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Daniel Thurs received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Dan on a job well done!

March 2002 UW History of Science alumnus Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Assistant Professor in the History department at SUNY-Buffalo, has been awarded two prizes from the American Historical Association for his book How to Write the History …

January 2002 Louise E. Robbins has published Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). From the publisher: “Based on wide-ranging and imaginative research, Elephant Slaves and …