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  Judith Houck Publishes New Book: Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement

  The University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. The work highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of …

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  Pablo Gómez Awarded NEH Collaborative Grant

  Professor Pablo Gomez, in collaboration with Adriana Chira from Emory University, was awarded a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative grant for his project “Value, Self-Worth, and the Market in the Black …

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  Susan Lederer Awarded WARF Named Professorship

  Professor Susan Lederer has been awarded a WARF Named Professorship. Five faculty across campus have been awarded WARF Named Professorships, which come with $100,000, and honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement …

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  New Faculty Member in Medical History and Bioethics

  Professor Dana Landress has joined the Department of History as an Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics. She is a historian of 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. …

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  2022-23 Teaching Assistant Award Winners in the Department of History

  Two teaching assistants from the Department of History, Ludwig Decke and Emma Wathen, have received a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards recognize their excellence in teaching. Ludwig and Emma both received the Early Excellence …

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  Alumnus Mark Solovey Publishes New Book

  Congratulations to alumnus Mark Solovey (PhD, 1996) on the publication of his newest book, Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation (MIT Press, 2020). “In …

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  Professor Judith Houck Receives 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award

  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 …

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  Professor Lucas Richert Publishes New Book on the Global History of Cannabis

  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 …

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