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 British Academy You can also find his directory listing on the British Academy’s website.
June 2011 Congratulations to Walt Schalick, MD, PhD, who has accepted a clinical position with the Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled, effective June 20, 2011.
June 2011 Wrestling With Nature: A Mini-Conference in Honor of David Lindberg took place on June 4, 2011, at the Pyle Center on the UW–Madison campus. Eight talks appeared on the day’s schedule – seven presented by PhD students guided by Lindberg – followed by five speakers who each described “The Lives of David Lindberg.” …
June 2011 Doctoral candidate Kathleen Robinson received a UW Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies travel grant in support of her planned research work at the Dodd Research Center in Storrs, CT, and the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, MA, to examine archival materials in the Mayer Collection of Fat Liberation. Congrats Katie!
On June 24th, 2011, three alumni of the University of Wisconsin–Madison History Department, Catherine Lynch (PhD 1989), Robert B. Marks (PhD 1978), and Paul G. Pickowicz (PhD 1973), gathered at the Madison home of Maurice Meisner, Harvey Goldberg Professor Emeritus of History, to present him with a copy of their newly published book, Radicalism, Revolution, …
May 2011 Amrys Williams received a 2011 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship in connection to her dissertation titled “Cultivating Modern America: 4-H Clubs and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century.” Congrats Amrys.
May 2011 Congratulations to Gregg Mitman who has been elected President of the American Society for Environmental History for a two-year term starting in 2013. Mitman will be the third UW–Madison professor to lead the ASEH since the society’s founding in 1977. Mitman is William Coleman Professor of History of Science and Professor of Medical …
January 18 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Kellen Backer, University of Wisconsin–Madison Title: “Feeding the Army: The Quartermaster Corps and the Creation of a Global Food System in World War II.” Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm. January 21 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag A discussion on …