Department News for the Current Year
Awards and Honors
Brad Moore has received a Fulbright-IIE grant in support of a dissertation on public health in the former Czechoslovakia (tentatively titled "Healthy Comrades: The Stalinization of Public Health in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1948-1956"). He plans to begin this overseas research in the summer of 2009.
Michael Shank was named a Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor in Integrated Liberal Studies for 2008-2010. The professorship honors contributions Evelyn Howe, emerita lecturer in ILS, and Herbert Howe, professor emeritus of classics and ILS, made to the Ford Scholars program in the 1950s, to ILS, and to undergraduate education at UW-Madison. ILS gives the award every other year to individuals who make ongoing contributions to ILS and who have enhanced student learning.
Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science, received The Sarton Medal at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Pittsburg. It is the highest honor conferred by the society and given in recognition of a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar, selected from the international community.
For the second time, Eric Schatzberg has won The Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, a prize given to the author of the best scholarly work published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society. It was awarded for his article "Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology Before 1930," published in Technology and Culture in July 2006.
Walt Schalick and Monica Green (Arizona State University) have received a grant from the NEH for "Disease in the Middle Ages," a seminar planned for Summer 2009 at the Wellcome Centre in London.
Books
Lynn K. Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Richard Staley, Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Selected Articles and Essays
Richard C. Keller, "Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2007): 823-841.