Biography Biography I am a historian of science and technology, interested broadly in the politics and practices of scientific data sharing in the 21st century. I am writing a dissertation on genomic data and data infrastructures in the social sciences in the U.S. and Europe after the Human Genome Project. Education M.A., UW–Madison (2022) M.S., …
Biography Biography My dissertation project follows from a simple question: when did affirmative action begin in the United States? Origin stories abound within a voluminous and multi-disciplinary academic literature. That said, by the end of the 20th century, a rough scholarly consensus emerged around the idea that policies that granted preferential race- and gender-based access …
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Biography I am a historian of childhood, incarceration, and medicine in the US Progressive Era and interwar period. I am especially interested in how social panics are enacted through efforts to manage children’s behavior, particularly girls’ behavior. My dissertation interrogates impact of World War I on girls’ carceral institutions, tracing efforts to police and manage …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the Nixonian origins of conservative television news; seeking to uncover the role that the administration (and its intellectual-political milieu) occupied as a laboratory for image-conscious conservatives in a broader struggle to stem the cultural liberalism unleashed by the “long Sixties”. My other research interests include the intersection of populism …
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. student in the African History Program, with a minor concentration in African Cultural Studies. I specialize in 19th and 20th-century West Africa, and my research interests include migration, urbanization, urban popular culture, and gender in Africa. My current research maps the social lives of migrants in Ghana’s largest migrant …
Biography Biography As a joint Ph.D. student in Educational Policy Studies and History, I am broadly interested in gender, women, and sexuality in the late 20th century United States. My current research focuses on the political history of girlhood from the 1960s to the 1990s, examining girls’ culture and activism in the American high school. …
Biography Biography I study the history of science and technology in the United States. My research interests include human-nonhuman interactions, the built environment, and material culture. Education M.A., University of Utah B.S., Georgia Tech Field
Biography Biography My research concentrates on the Indo-Burmese relationships in the 19th-20th century. I am also interested in learning Burma’s democratic authoritarian political historical dynamics, the way the country was separated from India, and how, in and through the process of independence, its different ethnic and religious groups were set against each other. Education M.phil., …
Biography Biography My name is Brand D. Nakashima and I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the UW–Madison History program. My research interests focus on the impact that transnational relationships and geopolitics have on diasporic communities and migratory flows in the 20th century. My dissertation concentrates on the displacement and immigration of Japanese Latin Americans (with …