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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 …

Megan Raby wins 2016 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize

November 2016 History of Science alumna Megan Raby has received the 2016 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize presented at the recent History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting in Atlanta. Awarded for the best article in …

History Department Colloquium

Panel on “Gender and the Ancient Economy: Thinking Through Some Problems” Prof. Claire Taylor “Why Buy the Cow When You Can Get the Milk For Free?: Gender Politics & Protest in Wisconsin Dairy Country” Jillian …

Stitching Wartime History: The Case of the French Resistance

Enjoy a special afternoon with textile-collection donors and friends of the School of Human Ecology featuring Stitching History from the Holocaust, an original exhibit created by and on loan from the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee. …

Viva Espana

Robert Christl UW-Madison, Dept of History PhD Candidate Hear Robert Christl speak about how workers sought self governance in Revolutionary Spain. A free lecture for University Staff.  University staff may attend without loss of pay, …

Professor Jackson gives keynote talk at recent ASGS meeting

October 2016 Catherine Jackson, Assistant Professor in the History of Science department, gave the keynote talk at the recent meeting of the Midwest Section of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society (ASGS) held on September 24th …

Celebrating James L. Baughman’s Contributions

Please join the faculty, staff and students of the School of Journalism & Mass Communication to celebrate the life and legacy of James L. Baughman. Former colleagues and students will reflect on Prof. Baughman’s contributions …

Thirty-Eighth Annual Merle Curti Lecture Series

“Writing the Life of Frederick Douglass: Why and Why Now?” Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 “Childhood of “Extremes” and “Baltimore Dreams”: Slave Youth” Thursday, October 27th, 2016 “‘By the Rivers of Babylon’: Words, the Bible, and …

History Department Colloquium

Panel on “Intimate Labors and Home Ownership” with April Haynes (early American republic) “Sweet Home and Elusive Homeownership in South Korea from the 1960s to 1970s” Eunhee Park Monday, October 24, 2016 11:50-1:20 PM Curti …

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 …

Kutler Lectures

Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University “The Death and Life of Jewish Urbanism” Monday, November 9, 2015 4:00 p.m. Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (330 N. Orchard St.) In modern times, Jews emerged as the consummate urban …

Thirty-Seventh Annual Merle Curti Lecture Series

“Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Early Modern Europe” Featuring Professor Anthony T. Grafton Princeton University November 3 – November 5, 2015 4:00 PM Pyle Center Vandeberg Auditorium Topics Tuesday, Nov 3rd “How Jesus …

Florence Hsia pens piece on Pope Francis, the Jesuits, and Science

October 2015 History of Science Professor Florence Hsia recently penned a piece for The Conversation about Pope Francis, the Jesuits, and science. Titled “Jesuits as science missionaries for the Catholic Church”, Hsia ponders the historical …

“West Berlin as Cold War Symbol”

David Barclay Professor Barclay is the Margaret and Roger Scholten Professor of International Studies in the Department of History at Kalamazoo College, and is also the Executive Director of the German Studies Association. Thursday, October …

“What History Tells”: George Mosse on European Cultural History, 1860-1918

Monday October, 5 – Saturday October 30, 2015 Online Course (Continuing Studies): Program # 5720 Professor George Mosse was a legend at UW-Madison, where he taught history from 1955-1988.  He was renowned for his ability …

What’s in a logo? A Kaliapparat!

September 2015 In the case of the logo of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the answer is a good deal of science history. A recent issue of Chemical and Engineering News (protected content link here) …

Tales From Planet Earth comes back to Madison

September 2015 Tales From Planet Earth returns to Madison November 6-8, 2015. Founded by Gregg Mitman, William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Professor of Medical History and Science & Technology Studies, and Environmental Studies, …

Bonnie Good News for Emer Lucey

September 2015 Emer Lucey, a third-year graduate student, recently won third place for best paper at the Health History in Action Conference held August 26-28 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.  Emer’s paper, …

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 …

The Harvey Goldberg Memorial Lecture

The U.S. Green Energy Transformation: Controlling Climate Change and Expanding Job Opportunities Professor Robert Pollin Distinguished Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts-Amherst and alumnus of the UW Department of History Thursday, November 6, 2014 5:00 …

Kathryn Ciancia Awarded “First Book” Award

Congratulating Kathryn Ciancia who has been awarded the Center for the Humanities “First Book Award.” Kathryn follows Emily Callaci, Daniel Ussishkin, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen in winning the award. “The Center’s First Book Award is funded …

Congratulations to Bill Reese

Congratulations to Bill Reese, who recently learned that his book Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History (Harvard, 2013) is this year’s winner of the annual book award from the History of Education …

Midwest Junto for the History of Science coming to Madison

October 2014 The 58th Midwest Junto for the History of Science will take place on 17-19 April 2015 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Organized by the History of Science department, this meeting invites paper submissions …

Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award to Catherine Jackson

October 2014 Soon-to-arrive Assistant Professor Catherine Jackson has been awarded the 2014 Liebig-Woehler-Freundschaftspreis, or Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award, by the Göttinger Chemischen Gesellschaft and Museum der Göttinger Chemie for her work in the history of organic chemistry, …

Lecture by Professor Paul A. Hanebrink, Rutgers University

New STS Initiative at UW: “Disclosure and Enclosure”

September 2014 Linda Hogle, Nicole Nelson, Pilar Ossorio, and Kris Saha will lead a new initiative entitled “Disclosure and Enclosure: the Paradoxes of Information Flow in Knowledge Communities” to advance interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach …

Jan Vansina speaks on Memory & Autobiography

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 …

Emily Callaci won First Book Award for junior faculty

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen won the AHA’s biennial Dunning Prize for Best Book in US History

Graduate Student Jesse Gant has co-authored a book about Wisconsin bicycling history

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‘ …

Historian William Jones joins Gwen Ifill on the PBS Newshour – August 14, 2013

Historian William Jones joins Gwen Ifill to offer an overview of how the March on Washington came to be, why President Kennedy wanted it to be called off and what roles women of color played …

Thongchai Winichakul on University of the air

On July 21, 2013, Thongchai Winichakul was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio’s show, University of the Air. The topic of the show was “Thailand: Coping with a Troubled Past”. A complete list of past shows …

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s latest book wins two awards

Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (University of Chicago Press), has been awarded the 2013 Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Book Award for the best book …

AAHM Shryock Medal Honorable Mention for Fama

May 2013 During the recent American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) meeting held in Atlanta, GA, third-year graduate student Vicki Fama’s received an Honorable Mention in the Shryock Medal Essay Contest for her …

Lynnette Regouby wins ILS Outstanding TA Award

May 2013 History of Science doctoral candidate and longtime ILS teaching assistant Lynnette Regouby has been awarded the ILS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the current school year. Congratulations to Lynnette!

All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2013

January 25 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Organizational Meeting Location: 204 Bradley Memorial February 1 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Lynnette Regouby, James Barnes, and Nick Jacobson, UW-Madison Title: “Globalizing the History of Science Survey.” …

35th Annual Merle Curti Lecture – April 30 – May 1, 2013

Gerda Lerner Memorial Invitation – April 28, 2013

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 …

Selig visit offers History undergrads rare opportunity

History course teaches students to think globally about Pearl Harbor

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 …

William Appleman Williams: “It just might catch on”

Professor Rick Keller handles the heat!

August 2012 Read about Professor Rick Keller’s research on the 2003 heat wave that gripped Europe and Paris in particular. Two recent news articles tell the whole story: “Forget blizzards and hurricanes, heat waves are …

2011 Roy Porter Prize to Bradley Moore

August 2012 Bradley Moore, a dissertator in the Joint PhD Program in History and the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, has been awarded the 2011 Roy Porter Prize. Presented by the Society for the …

UW Humanities Hackathon meets History of Science

August 2012 Meridith Beck Sayre and Dana A. Freiburger, both dissertators in History of Science, recently participated in a 5-day course offering hands-on training on computational techniques and tools in the humanities. The Humanities Hackathon: …

Brenda Gayle Plummer appointed to Merze Tate WARF professorship

Steve Stern elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2012

January 27 (Friday) at Noon Marcia Holmes, University of Chicago “Pilot, Navigator, Bombardier, Psychologist: Measuring the Aptitudes of Bomber Crews in World War II and the Making of the US Army Air Forces’ Aviation Psychology …

Mitman Awarded 2012 AAHM William H. Welch Medal

April 2012 Gregg A. Mitman, Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History and Environmental Studies and the Nelson Institute interim director, was awarded the William H. Welch Medal for his …

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. Check out African Studies Association, Melville J. Herskovits Award for more information.

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.

UW undergraduate and History Major Alexis Brown named Rhodes Scholar

Stanley Kutler won his case to open the closed testimony by Richard Nixon about Watergate

Thongchai Winichakul elected Vice President of AAS

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 …

Gregg Mitman named Vilas Professor

October 2011 Professor Gregg Mitman has been named Vilas Professor, one of the highest honors for established UW faculty. Vilas Professorships, created “for the advancement of learning,” recognize proven research ability and unusual qualifications and …

Selig to retire to Madison to write memoirs on UW campus

34th Annual Merle Curti Lecture Series – October 18 – 20, 2011 (pdf)

Numbers to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto

October 2011 In the Winter of 2012, Ronald L. Numbers will be Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre for the United States. He will teach an undergraduate/graduate course on “Science, Medicine, Religion in …

Professor Steve Stern received a Hilldale Professorship

William Courtenay elected as corresponding fellow of the British Academy

The Department of History would like to congratulate Professor Emeritus William Courtenay for being elected as a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. Details on the fellowship can be found here: The Fellowship of the …

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. …

Professor Bill Cronon elected president of AHA

“History as a Crime Scene” a discussion with Errol Morris (video)

Doug Kiel received prestigious SARS fellowship and residency in Sante Fe

Collins Receives UCLA Research Fellowship

August 2010 History of Science doctoral candidate Bridget Collins has received a 2010-2011 Charles Donald O’Malley Short-Term Research Fellowship from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and History and Special Collections for the …

Colloquium Series – Appropriations: Collecting for Science

September 2010 In association with this year’s “Go Big Read” book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the History of Science Department Colloquium Series will examine diverse perspectives on the nature and …

Bud Selig endows history chair at UW-Madison

Congratulations to our recent PhD Recipients – 2009-2010

Asaka, Ikuko – Dissertation title: “Race Across Empire and Republic: Black Migration to Canada and Racial, National, and Gender Formations in Atlantic Context”; post-doc., Penn State. Advisor: Steve Kantrowitz Bradley, Francis R. – Dissertation title: …

All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2010

January 22 (Friday) at Noon Friday Brown Bag Town Hall Meeting January 29 (Friday) at Noon Tom Broman, UW-Madison “Narratives of Modernity: History of Science in a Post-European World.” February 5 (Friday) at Noon Anna …

Anne Enke awarded Feminist Scholars Fellowship

Judith Leavitt Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

April 2010 The Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards has honored Professor Judith Leavitt for teaching excellence with a Chancellor’s Award. She will receive this award along with nine of her faculty colleagues at a ceremony …

Michael B. Petrovich Lecture

“Stalin and His Team: A New Look at Stalinist High Politics” presented by Dr. Sheila Fitzpatrick Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Department of History The University of Chicago Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:00 – …

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 …

Harvey Goldberg, The Bootleg Lectures, Madison, Wis., 1974-76 – CDs For Sale

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 …

Professor John M. Cooper, New York Times op-ed contributor, writes column “Obama’s Prize, Wilson’s legacy” (pdf)

George L. Mosse Exchange Faculty Exchange Fellow – 2009-2010

Diego Olstein Areas of Research and Teaching Medieval Iberia My first field of research is Medieval Iberia. To date, my contributions to this field are contained in my book La Era Mozarabe. Los mozárabes de …

Professor Colleen Dunlavy in On Wisconsin, Summer 2009 Issue (pdf)

New Faculty – Dayle B. DeLancey

August 2009 The department welcomes Dayle B. DeLancey to the department. Her interests and research include 19th- and 20th-c. history and ethics of African-American health experiences, U.S. public health (esp. vaccination and disaster relief campaigns), …

Two History Students become IRE Graduate Scholar Associates (pdf)

UW-Madison History Ph.D. Alumnus, Thomas G. Andrews, Wins 2009 Bancroft Prize

Thomas G. Andrews has been named one of three recipients of the 2009 Bancroft Prize for his book Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), a study of the 1914 massacre …

UW-Madison makes an unlikely ally: The military (pdf)

Brad Moore Receives Fulbright-IIE Grant

April 2009 History/History of Science doctoral candidate Brad Moore has received a Fulbright-IIE grant in support of a dissertation on public health in the former Czechoslovakia (tentatively titled “Healthy Comrades: The Stalinization of Public Health …

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 …

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!

Warwick Anderson wins Guggenheim Fellowship

April 2007 Warwick Anderson has won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for his project, “The Science of Race Mixing in the Twentieth Century,” which looks at the transnational network of research on race mixing, or miscegenation.

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 …

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.