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.
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 (Friday) at Noon Linda Hogle, UW–Madison “Everything you always wanted to know about STS at the UW, but were afraid …
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. Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, expanded edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added …
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; and John Rudolph, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction.
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.”
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 History.” The award is given annually for the best article published in Environmental History.
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.
November 2005 In recognition of his contributions to science, Ronald Numbers was elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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 with host Jean Feraca about this summer’s surprise hit documentary, “March of the Penguins.” “Here on Earth” can be heard …
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 historian of science William Coleman (1938-1988), who taught at UW–Madison from 1978 to 1988. The first fellowship will be awarded …