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 to use this grant toward her dissertation which explores the history of the Fat Acceptance Movement and its struggles with …
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.
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 the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press). The Douglass Prize was jointly created by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center …
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 promise. The individual must have contributed significantly to the research mission of the University and be widely recognized both nationally …
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 America” in the Department for the Study of Religion from January 31 – February 3, 2012 and February 28 – …