University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Wang, Yu-Hsuan “Jade”

Biography Biography My research focuses on the history of dairy, technology, and public health in Cold War Taiwan. By examining U.S.-supported dairy development in postwar Taiwan, I analyze how quality control infrastructures transformed cows and fresh milk into a calculable foundation of nutritional governance. Building on my earlier work on Japanese colonial Taiwan, where my …

Wathen, Emma

Biography Biography I study disability and reproduction in the twentieth-century United States, drawing from the fields of disability studies, U.S. history, history of medicine, and gender and sexuality studies. My dissertation explores parenting with a disability in the postwar United States amid the expansion of family policing systems and the growth of the disability rights …

Xu, Yuji

Biography Biography I am pursuing a Ph.D. in East Asian History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a minor in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (HSMT). My research and teaching interests include the history of computing, algorithms, and AI, trans-Pacific technological exchange, Hong Kong studies, and critical theory. Titled “From Computing Cosmopolitanism to …