2022 Department News
Paige Glotzer’s How the Suburbs Were Segregated Receives Lewis Mumford Prize
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American …
2022 Senior Thesis Students Give Advice
We asked students in Professor Kathryn Ciancia’s Spring 2022 Senior Thesis Colloquium what advice they would give to a student just starting out in the process of researching and writing a senior thesis. See what …
Graduate Program Manager Leslie Abadie Receives L&S Advising Excellence Award
Congratulations to the Department of History’s Graduate Program Manager, Leslie Abadie, on receiving the 2022 L&S Graduate Student Academic Advising Excellence Award! Leslie was honored for the award at a ceremony on April 27th. According …
Francine Hirsch’s Analysis of Russian Invasion in Ukraine
Professor Francine Hirsch is a historian of modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union whose areas of expertise include comparative empires, the history of human rights, and Russian-American engagement. Since the Russian …
Three 2022 History Graduates Highlighted for Accomplishments
This weekend, thousands of Badgers will earn their degrees at UW-Madison Commencement. In anticipation of the commencement proceedings, UW-Madison highlighted several graduates with unique accomplishments to share, and three of them will be receiving their …
Professor Judd Kinzley Publishes Article in American Historical Review
Professor Judd Kinzley has a new article out in The American Historical Review (the official publication of the American Historical Association), titled “Wartime Dollars and the Crowning of China’s Hog Bristle King: The Dubious Legacies …
Professor Francine Hirsch Co-Authors Op-Ed on War Crimes in Ukraine
Professor Francine Hirsch has co-authored a new op-ed for the Los Angeles Times titled “Lessons from the Soviets on how to hold Russia accountable for war crimes.” Evidence of Russian violence against Ukrainian citizens continues …
Retirement Celebration in Honor of Professor Emeritus William Cronon
This Saturday, April 30th, Professor Emeritus William Cronon will be back on the UW-Madison campus to participate in “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World,” a day-long conference organized by his former PhD students that …
Alumnus Russell King Publishes Book
Congratulations to alumnus Russell King (BA 2002) on the publication of his new book, Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia, out this month from the Chicago Review Press. “In 1981, ambitious …
Submission Period Now Open for Mosse First Book Prize
The submission period is now open for the George L. Mosse First Book Prize! The prize was established in 2020 to honor George L. Mosse’s commitment to scholarship and to mentoring new generations of historians. Winning books are …
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2021
In Memoriam: Alumnus R. Richard “Dick” Wagner
In Memoriam: Alumnus R. Richard “Dick” Wagner The Department of History is sad to share the news that one of our alums, R. Richard “Dick” Wagner (PhD, 1971) passed away unexpectedly on December 12, 2021 …
In Memoriam: Alumnus Tyler Stovall
The Department of History is saddened to note the passing of alumnus Tyler Stovall (PhD, 1984). Dr. Stovall studied with Harvey Goldberg at UW-Madison and became a distinguished historian of modern France with a particular …
Professor Judd Kinzley Publishes Article in Wisconsin Magazine of History
Congratulations to Professor Judd Kinzley, who has a new article published in the most recent issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. “The Ghosts of Science Hall: The Chinese Geologists of the University of Wisconsin” …
Professor Gloria Whiting Wins Prize for Best Article in American Legal History
Professor Gloria Whiting has received the Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History for her article, “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court.” This …
Professor Alfred McCoy Publishes New Book
Congratulations to Professor Alfred McCoy on the publication of his new book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, out this month from Haymarket Books. From the publisher’s website: “In a tempestuous narrative …
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 …
Professor Sasha Suarez Speaks to Local News about Indigenous Activism
November is Native American Heritage Month, and to help bring awareness to Wisconsinites about some of the issues the Native American community have been facing, both past and present, Professor Sasha Suarez spoke with local Milwaukee news …
Paige Glotzer Receives Best Book in North American Urban History Award
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer on receiving the 2021 Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association for How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press, 2020)! This …
Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear Receives AHA Prize for Best Reference Work
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear for winning the American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize for the best reference work published over the last five years! The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources …
UW History Alumni & Emeritus Receive WHA Awards
Congratulations to our graduate program alumni, Jennifer Holland (PhD, 2013) and Cori Simon (PhD, 2020), on their awards from the Western Historical Association! At the WHA meeting last week, Jennifer Holland was presented with two …
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2020
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 …
History Department 2020 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”
History Newsletter 2020-21 (pdf) History Newsletter 2020-21: Mobile-Friendly Version (pdf) Chair’s Welcome History Welcomes New Members Interpreting 2020 The Joy of Learning New Club and Podcast Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News and more… This issue and past copies …
Stanley Schultz (1938-2020)
Stanley Kenton “Stan” Schultz, age 82, passed away at his home in Middleton, Wis., on Dec. 8, 2020. Stan was born on July 12, 1938, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Kenton Schultz and Virginia Pyle …
Alumnus Paul Grant Publishes Book
Alumnus Paul Grant (Ph.D. 2017) has published his first book, Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2020). According to the publisher’s website: “Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast …
Students of Professor Banerjee’s History 200 Say “Thank You”
Professor Mou Banerjee got a surprise on Tuesday when students from her History 200 course on Gandhi, King, Mandela: Non-Violence in the World performed a coordinated thank you to Professor Banerjee over Zoom. Students turned …
“Why Take History?” Video Contest
The History Department announces up to three $500 prizes for short (1-3 minute) videos made by an undergraduate individual or team on the subject, “Why take History?” Videos may answer this question in a variety …
Grad Student Patrick Eickman Publishes Book Review
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Graduate student Patrick Eickman has a book review published in De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History. Eickman reviews Stephen J. Spencer’s Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291. “This work demonstrates the …
Kathryn Ciancia publishes new book
Kathryn Ciancia’s new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020) is now available. Description: As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an …
Professor Aaron Rock-Singer Publishes Article on Islamic Religious & Social Movements
Professor Aaron Rock-Singer has a new article in the journal Religions, titled “Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements.” “This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of …
Professor Mou Banerjee Writes About Teaching Colonialism in History
For a roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History, Professor Mou Banerjee has written an introduction focused on “Decolonizing Pedagogy: History as a Reckoning with the Past.” Of her own teaching, Professor Banerjee states: “When I …
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2019
Professor Emeritus David Sorkin Publishes New Book
David Sorkin, a historian of Jewish and European history, has published a new book titled Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019). Sorkin is a Professor Emeritus of our department and …
Professor Lapina Interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio
This past Sunday, December 8th, Professor Elizabeth Lapina was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio for a segment titled “Knightly Culture and the Crusades.” The host was Norman Gilliland, who co-produces the weekly WPR program “University …
History Major Takes a Horticulture Class with Grandparents Who Audit
Danielle Wendricks, a History major also studying Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Educational Policy at UW-Madison, took Horticulture 120 this semester with her grandparents, who audited the class as part of UW’s Senior Guest Auditor …
Gloria Whiting publishes article in Slavery & Abolition
Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in Slavery & Abolition titled “Emancipation without the courts or constitution: the case of Revolutionary Massachusetts.” The essay rethinks the process by which freedom was inaugurated in Massachusetts, …
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 …
History Department 2019 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”
History Newsletter 2019-20 (pdf) Chair’s Welcome History Welcomes New Members ARCHIVE in NYC The Digital City, Migration, and You Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News and more… This issue and past copies of the newsletter can also be found …
Alumnus Sam Gee Publishes Review Essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Recent graduate Sam Gee (B.A. in History and Religious Studies, 2017) has published a review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay covers a recent biography of the prominent twentieth-century Austrian philosopher …
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2018
Walter Stern receives 2018 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History
Walter Stern, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and affiliated faculty member of the History Department, has received the 2018 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History. This prize is awarded annually by the …
L&S Newsletter Publishes Article on Professors Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville
Sift & Winnow, the online L&S newsletter, has an article on the “Lessons of History” that features our own Cindy I-Fen Cheng and Leonora Neville, along with Christy Clark-Pujara, who teaches in the Department of …
Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball Bud Selig (B.A. 1956) Delivers Winter Commencement Speech
On Sunday, December 16th, the winter graduates of 2018 and 6,700 guests packed the seats of the Kohl Center and listened to Alan H, “Bud” Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball and class of …
Alumnus David Gilbert Nominated for Grammy Award
History alumnus David Gilbert (Ph.D. 2011) is up for a Grammy Award! He is nominated in the category of Best Album Notes for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese …
Publication from Goldberg Center Book Series Awarded Prize from the American Historical Association
The book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, published as part of The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History with University of Wisconsin Press has just received the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the …
Retiring Faculty Member, John Sharpless, Featured on Front Page of Wisconsin State Journal
After 43 years of teaching, Professor John Sharpless will be retiring at the end of this month. Professor Sharpless has taught American history and political history at UW-Madison since 1975. Some of his former students …
UW Alumna Rachel Gross Wins Best Dissertation Prize
The Business History Conference has awarded the 2018 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History to Dr. Rachel Gross (Ph.D. 2017) (https://rachel-gross.com/). Enterprise and Society published a summary of the project, “From …
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2017
History Department 2017 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”
History Newsletter 2017-18 – “The Past in the Present” Chair’s Welcome Twenty Years of ARCHIVE Drunk History Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25 Wisconsin 101 Progress Report Faculty/Emeriti News News Professorships Graduate Student/Alumni Notes Undergraduate/Graduate Awards and …
African Studies celebrates the contributions of Florence Bernault
The African Studies Program congratulates and bids a fond farewell to longtime colleague Florence Bernault, who will be returning to her home country of France for a senior professorship in African History at the Institut …
Making Tracks: Gregg Mitman
A recent autobiographical essay on how Gregg Mitman became an environmental historian, commissioned by the Rachel Carson Center. Read the essay on their blog, Seeing the Woods.
History of Science Brown Bag – Marie Hicks
“Searching for Genderqueerness in the Archive” Marie Hicks UW-Madison, Department of History Upcoming History of Science brown bag: December 8th with Lynn Nyhart – Town Hall
Lecture: Evan Laksmana
“Reshuffling the Deck?: Organizational Evolution, Officer Promotion, and Military Reform in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia” Evan Laksmana Doctoral Candidate Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University Senior Researcher Center of Strategic and International Studies Jakarta …
Lecture: Susan Brewer
“A Place Called Home: Family and Identity on Oneida Land” with Susan Brewer Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00 PM 7191 Helen C. White Susan Brewer investigates the history of Oneida Indian land in central New …
Better Health Through the Humanities
A new certificate teaches students historical, cultural and philosophical ways people intersect with health care and provides them a broader, more nuanced understanding of health. Last spring in a Biology and Society course, Makenzie Wydra …
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2016
Prof. Lederer named UNC Distinguished Visiting Professor
January 2016 Susan E. Lederer, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics and department chair, will spend Spring 2016 in North Carolina. She will be the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at the …
Gómez receives UW IRH residential fellowship
January 2016 Assistant Professor Pablo Gómez has been awarded a UW Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) residential fellowship for the coming Fall semester. Pablo will be working on his second book project during …
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2016
January 22 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, UW-Madison “Blood Testing and Fear …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2016
September 9 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester. For the remainder of the hour, we’ll have an informal discussion about current problems with academic publishing, which seems increasingly dysfunctional. …
Post-Soviet Lustration and Contemporary Hierarchical Relations with Russia
Professor Yuval Weber National Research University — Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall A key challenge for post-authoritarian governments is to consolidate political authority; one of the …
What’s in a Name?: Searching for the African Origins of “Samba” and “Zumbi” in Brazil
Marc Hertzman Professor of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:30 – 5:00 PM 8417 Social Science This presentation explores the contours and significance of prolonged searches for African origins of …
The Ottoman Empire Through a Greek Lens
Molly Greene Professor of History and Hellenic Studies Princeton University Wednesday, Novemeber 30, 2016 5:00-7:00 PM Rm 225 Pyle Center Molly Greene studies the history of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the Greek …
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2015
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2015
September 4 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 11 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Stephen Neal, History of Science, UW-Madison “Making Science Global During …
“Journeys with Baron Ungern: Biography and Empire in the Russian Revolution”
Willard Sunderland, Professor of Russian History, University of Cincinnati Friday, December 4, 2015 1:30 – 3:00 PM 212 University Club Sponsored by: Alice D. Mortensen/Petrovich Chair in Russian History, the George L. Mosse Program in …
Workshop: Rethinking Borderlands
Thursday December 3, 2015 Memorial Library Room 126 3:30 to 5:00 pm Kathryn Ciancia on Inter-war Poland Assistant Professor of History, UW-Madison Judd Kinzley on the Early People’s Republic of China Assistant Professor of History, …
First Book Award to Nicole Nelson
November 2015 The UW Center for the Humanities has awarded History of Science Assistant Professor Nicole Nelson a First Book Award, one of the three UW junior faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences …
Department well-represented at the annual HSS meeting
November 2015 The UW History of Science Department will be well-represented at the annual History of Science Society (HSS) meeting this month in San Francisco. Graduate students James Brannon, Melissa Charenko, Bridget Collins, Dana Freiburger, …
Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania
Emily Callaci Assistant Professor of History UW-Madison Nov. 23, 2015 3:30 – 4:30 PM 212 University Club Building Urban migration in Africa in the second half of the twentieth century has been one of the …
“Why is China so Big? Rethinking the Boundaries of Civilized Empire under the Qing”
Professor University of Chicago Nov. 13, 2015 1:30 – 3:00 PM Conrad A Elvehjem Building, Room L140 Prof. Pomeranz is a specialist on society and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China and the past …
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2014
Disclosing/Enclosing Thematic Cluster
December 2014 Assistant Professor Nicole Nelson from History of Science and a trio of Medical History and Bioethics faculty – Linda Hogle, Pilar Ossorio, and Kris Saha – form the team leaders of an exciting …
Keller named Associate Dean of Division of International Studies
December 2014 Professor Richard C. Keller, Department of Medical History and Bioethics and History of Science, has been named as associate dean of the UW–Madison Division of International Studies. Starting January 2015, Keller will serve …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2014
September 5 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 12 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Michael Shank, History of Science, UW-Madison “Rethinking Mathematical Culture from Pythagoras to Cusa: David …
Emeritus Professor Robert Siegfried dies, first department PhD
November 2014 Robert Siegfried, professor emeritus of the History of Science department and its first Ph.D. awardee, passed away on September 2, 2014. Siegfried taught in the department for many years after completing his doctorate …
Professor Pablo F. Gómez garners UW ‘First Book Award
November 2014 Hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez, History of Science and Medical History and Bioethics, who has received a 2014-15 “First Book Award” from the UW Center for the Humanities. Pablo’s book, …
Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholars Award to Charenko
November 2014 Graduate student Melissa Charenko has received a research award from the Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholars program at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She plans to use this award next year to look …
Gregg Mitman – participates in a Congressional briefing Nov. 17 on the Ebola crisis in Africa
Professor Gregg Mitman participated in a Congressional briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis in Washington, D.C. The briefing was be held on Monday, November 17, 2014 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in the Gold …
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2013
Honored Instructors Melissa Charenko and Toshihiro Higuchi
December 2013 History of Science graduate student Melissa Charenko and Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow Toshihiro Higuchi have been named Honored Instructors for their contributions to UW students and their education. This fall, as course …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2013
September 6 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 13 (Friday) at Noon Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech “History of Science & Technology and Public Policy: Reflections on an Academic’s …
Graduate Student Film Premieres at Tales From Planet Earth
October 2013 Melissa Charenko’s short film, 24-7B, will premiere on Friday, November 1, 2013, the opening night of the 2013 Tales From Planet Earth biennial film festival. Charenko, a history of science graduate student, produced …
Wall Street Journal ‘Numbers Guy’ Interviews Rick Keller
August 2013 Carl Bialik, ‘The Numbers Guy’ columnist for the Wall Street Journal, interviewed Professor Rick Keller as part of his 17 August 2013 blog posting titled “The Challenge of Counting Heat-Wave Deaths.” Click ‘here‘ …
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2012
Vilas Research Travel Grant to Scott Prinster
December 2012 Doctoral candidate Scott Prinster has received a Vilas Research Travel Grant in support of his dissertation that explores the scientific critique of religious authority as higher biblical criticism spread in the United States. …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2012
September 7 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 7 (Friday) at 3:00 pm Colloquium: Megan Raby, UW-Madison Title: “Taming ‘Jungle Island:’ The transformation of Barro Colorado Island into …
Welcome Pablo F. Gómez
November 2012 The department welcomes Pablo F. Gómez as an Assistant Professor. In addition to a Ph.D. in History of Medicine and Latin American History from Vanderbilt University in 2010, Pablo completed his M.D. at …
Vicki Fama garners Best Paper Award in St. Louis
October 2012 Third-year graduate student Vicki Fama received the best paper award for her paper titled “Heroes and Villains: Displaying and Viewing Bodies at the United States Army Medical Museum, 1862-1888” at the recent 2012 …
Jim Sweet wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of …
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2011
Anna Zeide Receives University Exceptional Service Award
December 2011 Congratulations to Anna Zeide who has received a University Exceptional Service Award. This award recognizes outstanding graduate student teaching assistants who, in addition to their regular teaching duties, perform exceptional service related to …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2011
September 2 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 9 (Friday) at Noon Victoria Nourse, UW-Madison Law School “Progressive Science: The Eugenic Revival of the 1930s.” Location: 204 Bradley …
Neil Kodesh’s book Beyond the Royal Gaze is co-winner of the Herskovits Prize
Neil Kodesh’s book Beyond the Royal Gaze is co-winner of the African Studies Association’s prestigious Herskovits Prize.
Robinson Awarded Population Health Dissertation Grant
November 2011 Katie Robinson, a M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the History of Science, has received a 2011-2012 UW-Madison Population Health Dissertation Grant provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program. Robinson plans …
Deutsches Museum Scholar-in-Residence Grant to Staley
November 2011 Professor Richard Staley has received a six month scholar-in-residence grant from the Deutsches Museum, Munich, in support of his ongoing project on physics and anthropology.
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2010
Inaugural Skott Vigil Memorial Lecture
“A Family Story from Native California: Finding Hidden Histories from the 19th and 20th Centuries” Lecture by William Bauer Associate Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Author of We Were All Like Migrant …
Fred Gibbs – Pioneering Data Hound
December 2010 Recent department graduate Fred Gibbs (Ph.D. 2009) and his George Mason University colleague Dan Cohen enjoyed having their recent research work as “pioneering data hounds” discussed in the New York Times. Their project …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2010
September 3 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions September 10 (Friday) at Noon Kellen Backer, Bridget Collins, Brad Moore, and Scott Trigg, UW-Madison “The TAA, and the place of teaching in a graduate career.” September …
Robert Kingdon (1927-2010)
Robert McCune Kingdon, Hilldale Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, beloved mentor of generations of Reformation scholars and path-breaking historian of the Reformation, died on Friday, December 3, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin. …
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2009
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2009
January 23 (Friday) at Noon Bridget Collins, Kellen Backer, and Jocelyn Bosley, UW-Madison “Prelims: Everything you needed to know but were too afraid to ask.” January 30 (Friday) at Noon An open forum for all …
India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding – Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical — in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg
“Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg — arguably the historian most responsible for promoting studies of intercultural and interreligious interactions in the South Asian context — the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2009
September 4 (Friday) at Noon Judy Kaplan, UW-Madison Introductions followed by a brown bag talk by Judy, topic “The Long Rangers: pre-historical linguistics from Moscow to Michigan.” September 11 (Friday) at Noon Sarah Pfatteicher, UW-Madison …
Professor Florence Bernault Edits Special Issue of Politique Africaine
Professor Florence Bernault just guest-edited a special issue of France’s international flagship journal in African Studies, Politique Africaine on the recent events in Gabon (Equatorial Africa). Last June, Omar Bongo Ondimba, the longest serving president of …
Professor James Donnelly publishes Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824
Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821–24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained …
Honors for Lynn Nyhart
October 2009 Lynn Nyhart has won the 2009 Susan E. Abrams Prize for the best book in the history of science published by the University of Chicago Press in the previous two years, for her …
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2008
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2008
September 5 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Friday) at Noon James Secord, Cambridge “Paper Comets: Prophecy, Science and the End of the World in the Nineteenth-century Press.” September 15 (Monday) at 4:00 …
Selected Articles and Books
Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008)
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2008
January 25 (Friday) at Noon Walton Schalick, UW-Madison “Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disability and Children, 1000-1400.” February 1 (Friday) at Noon Scott Prinster, UW-Madison “Who’s Watching the Watchers? Why Some Historians Call Institutional Review …
Ronald Numbers Awarded the Sarton Medal
November 2008 Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science, received the Sarton Medal at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Pittsburg. It is the highest honor conferred by …
Eric Schatzberg Repeats as Winner of the Usher Prize
October 2008 For the second time, Eric Schatzberg has won the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, a prize given to the author of the best scholarly work published during the …
Shank named Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor
September 2008 Michael Shank was named a Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor in Integrated Liberal Studies for 2008-2010. The professorship honors contributions Evelyn Howe, emerita lecturer in ILS, and Herbert Howe, professor emeritus of …
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2007
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2007
January 26 (Friday) at Noon Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW-Madison “A Graduate Student’s Guide to Publishing.” February 2 (Friday) at Noon Kellen Backer, UW-Madison February 8 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Naomi Oreskes, University …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2007
September 7 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Ann Blair, Harvard University “Managing Information in Big Books, 1500-1700.” Location: 6104 Social Science September 14 (Friday) at Noon Claire …
Selected Articles and Books
Richard C. Keller, “Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2007): 823-841. Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: …
Welcome Susan Lederer and Walton Schalick
August 2007 The Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine is pleased to welcome Professor Susan Lederer to our faculty. Sue comes to us from the Section of the History of Medicine at Yale …
Faculty in the News
June 2007 Gregg Mitman was profiled in the Madison Capital Times on June 11, 2007.
Faculty Departure
May 2007 Warwick Anderson is leaving UW-Madison for University of Sydney, where he will be University Research Professor in the History Department and the Centre on Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine. We will …
Matthew Lavine garners ILS TA Award
April 2007 History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Matthew Lavine received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Matt on a job well done!
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2006
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2006
September 8 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 11 (Monday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University “The Life of Money and the Afflictions of the Body.” Location: 8417 Social Science September 15 …
Selected Articles and Books
Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Gregg Mitman, “Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature” Isis 97 (2006): 496-504. …
New History of Science Faculty Associates
August 2006 Three UW-Madison faculty have joined the department as affiliates: Rima Apple, professor emeritus, School of Human Ecology; Greg Downey, associate professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications and of Library and Information Studies; …
Gregg Mitman co-PI on $3 million NSF Grant
June 2006 Gregg Mitman helped write and is co-PI on a $3,000,000 NSF grant, “Vulnerability and Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: An Integrative Traineeship in Sustainability and the Global Environment.”
Mitman wins Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award for 2005
April 2006 Gregg Mitman won the Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award for 2005 from the American Society for Environmental History for his April 2005 article “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental …
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2005
Selected Articles and Books
Walton O. Schalick, “Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician,” in J. Duffin, ed. Clio in the Clinic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 27-45.
Ronald Number elected Fellow of the AAAS
November 2005 In recognition of his contributions to science, Ronald Numbers was elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Gregg Mitman on the Air
September 2005 Professor Gregg Mitman of our faculty will be a featured guest at 8:00 p.m. Thursday September 8 on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Here on Earth” program. An expert on nature films, Gregg will talk …
New Fellowship honoring William Coleman
September 2005 The Department of the History of Science and the Institute for Research in the Humanities are pleased to announce the Coleman Dissertation Fellowship in the History of Science. The fellowship honors the distinguished …
Ronald Number to become President of the DHST/IUHPS
July 2005 Ronald Numbers has been elected to a four-year term (2005-2009) as president of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
Thomas H. Broman receives NEH Fellowship
February 2005 Associate Professor Thomas H. Broman has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for academic year 2005-2006 for his project, “The Role of the Press in Shaping the Authority of Science in …
Michael Shank to chair Center for Early Modern Studies
January 2005 Professor Michael H. Shank has been appointed chair of the new UW Center for Early Modern Studies, effective January 2005.
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2004
Lecture: Evan Laksmana
“Reshuffling the Deck?: Organizational Evolution, Officer Promotion, and Military Reform in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia” Evan Laksmana Doctoral Candidate Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University Senior Researcher Center of Strategic and International Studies Jakarta …
NOVA documentary on Typhoid Mary
October 2004 On Oct. 12, 2004, PBS aired a NOVA documentary based on Professor Judith Leavitt’s book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. This documentary, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America,” features commentary by …
Judith Leavitt named Rupple-Bascom Professor
September 2004 Professor Judith Walzer Leavitt has been named the UW Foundation Chair Rupple-Bascom Professor. These at-large professorships, created with funds from the UW Foundation, recognize faculty for their balanced contributions to the University’s teaching, …
New Chair of Medical History and Bioethics
August 2004 Warwick Anderson has been appointed Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health and chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics.
History of Medicine Collections Has Moved
July 2004 In July 2004, the History of Medicine Collections moved to the Ebling Library, a fantastic new facility in the Health Sciences Learning Center. This building now houses the historical collections previously located at …
Professors Keller and Anderson Receive $30K Grant
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.”
Professor Judith Leavitt wins Hilldale Award
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 …
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2003
The Latest from Lindberg and Numbers
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 …
Professor Ronald Numbers wins Hilldale Award
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 …
Brent Ruswick garners ILS TA Award
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!
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2002
Daniel Thurs garners ILS TA Award
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!
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra wins two AHA Book Awards
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 …
By recent alumna Louise Robbins
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 …
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