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Pablo Gómez Publishes Book: Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality
UW–Madison History Professor Pablo F. Gómez recently published a new book with University of Chicago Press. Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality is a provocative account…
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Devin Kennedy Publishes Book: Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy
UW–Madison History Professor Devin Kennedy recently published a new book, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy, with Columbia University Press. Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer…
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Gregg Mitman Awarded Distinguished Civilian Honor by the Republic of Liberia
UW–Madison Emeritus Professor Gregg Mitman received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption, one of the highest honors conferred by the Republic of Liberia. The distinguished honor was given…
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Florence Hsia and Devin Kennedy Help Achieve NEH Grant for a New Center for Humanistic Inquiry Into AI and Uncertainty
Over the last two years, Professors Florence Hsia and Devin Kennedy have played key roles in an interdisciplinary effort to rethink how artificial intelligence is studied on campus. Working as part of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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