Department of History

Cameron Daddis

Position title: TA: Hist Sci 213 with Professor Richard Keller

Email: daddis@wisc.edu

Address:
Advisor: Richard C. Keller
Mailbox: 4047 Mosse Humanities Building

Cameron Daddis headshot

Biography

I am interested in histories of geologic knowledge and environmental change in the nineteenth-century British empire. My current work examines peat bogs as sites of deep time, colonial policymaking, and labor.

Education

B.A., History, Vassar College, 2019

Field

  • History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

MA Title

  • “What Lies Beneath: Soil, Landscape, and the Geologic Imagination of the Deccan”

Courses Taught as TA

  •  History of Science 201: The Origins of Scientific Thought