April 2011 Amrys Williams is the recipient of the 2011 Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics from the Cornell College of Human Ecology. This fellowship includes a $6,000 stipend to support a six-week summer residency to use the unique resources available from the College and the Cornell University Library System in pursuit of …
April 2011 Professor Lynn K. Nyhart has received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship Award in recognition of her many prior achievements and exceptional future promise. She was chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants and was one of the two UW–Madison faculty to receive the award this year. This fellowship will support Nyhart’s current research …
April 2011 History of Science faculty associate John L Rudolph will be the next editor of the journal Science Education. During the summer of 2011 the editorial office and operation of the journal will move to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Rudolph is professor of science education in the Curriculum and Instruction department where his research …
April 2011 For her many distinguished academic contributions, Professor Emerita Judith W. Leavitt was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) at their recent 2011 annual meeting in Philadelphia. This award is presented “to a member of the Association who has retired from regular institutional affiliation …
“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 Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Thursday, April …
March 2011 Recent graduate Shannon Withycombe has been named a New Faculty Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and will join the History department at Duke University for the academic years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. This fellowship program allows recent Ph.D.s in the humanities to take up two-year positions with an American university …
January 2011 Professor Richard Staley has joined the Editorial Board of the journal Isis as an Advisory Editor for 2011-2013. Published on behalf of the History of Science Society by the University of Chicago Press, Isis is the official publication of the society. Well done Richard!
January 2011 Jeffrey M. Jentzen (Ph.D. 2007) talks about his recently published dissertation (now book) concerning death investigation in America on the February 1, 2011, episode of PBS/Frontline titled “Post Mortem.”
January 2011 Department alumnus Michael F. Robinson (Ph.D. 2002), assistant professor of history at the University of Hartford, will appear in the American Experience documentary “The Greely Expedition” to be broadcast on PBS January 31, 2011.