Archive of Department News
New Fellowships and Gifts
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 for the 2005-2006 academic year. We are grateful to Professor Coleman's widow, Louise Coleman, for establishing this Fellowship.
GENERAL FACULTY NEWS (2005-06)
Gregg Mitman has won the 2006 Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award from the American Society for Environmental History for his 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.
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 locally on WERN, at 90.9 FM.
GENERAL FACULTY NEWS (2004-05)
On Oct. 12, 2004, PBS aired a NOVA documentary based on Professor Judith Leavitt's book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. This documentary, "The Most Dangerous Woman in America," features commentary by Leavitt. It's now available on DVD. Get your copy before it's too late!
Warwick Anderson has been made a Professorial Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Health and Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. Professor Anderson will also be spending a month in the summer of 2005 at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio to work on his project, "globalization of medicines," in collaboration with Adele Clarke.
Professor Michael H. Shank has been appointed chair of the new UW Center for Early Modern Studies, effective January 2005.
The Office of International Studies and Programs of the University of Wisconsin has awarded $30,000 to Warwick Anderson and Richard Keller for their project "Globalizing the Unconscious: Cross-Cultural Encounters with Colonial Psychoanalysis." More information is available here.
RECENT PRIZES
Thomas H. Broman receives NEH Fellowship
Associate Professor Thomas H. Broman has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for academic year 2005-2006 for his project, "The Periodical Press and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Germany."
Judith Leavitt wins Hilldale Award
Judith Walzer Leavitt, the Ruth Bleier WARF professor of medical history, history of science and women's studies, has received the 2003-2004 Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities Division from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The prestigious Hilldale Awards, which recognize excellence in teaching, research and service, are awarded annually to one professor in each of the four university divisions: arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and biological sciences. History of Science faculty have now won this award in two consecutive years, an extraordinary achievement!
Warwick Anderson receives W. K. Hancock Prize
Warwick Anderson, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History, Population Health, and History of Science, has received the 2004 W.K. Hancock award, the major book prize of the Australian Historical Association, for the Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia.
Judith Leavitt named Rupple-Bascom Professor
Judith Walzer Leavitt has been named the UW Foundation Chair Rupple-Bascom Professor. These at-large professorships, created with funds from the UW Foundation, recognize faculty for their balanced contributions to the University’s teaching, research, and service.
Gregg Mitman receives two national fellowships
Professor Gregg Mitman has received a National Humanities Center Fellowship for academic year 2004-2005, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005-2006, for his project, "Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America."
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra wins AHA book awards
UW History of Science alumnus Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Assistant Professor in the History department at SUNY-Buffalo, has been awarded two prizes from the American Historical Association for his book How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Jorge, a graduate from the department in 1995, won the Atlantic History Prize for "outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the twentieth century" in addition to winning the first John E. Fagg Prize for the best publication in the history of Spain and Latin America.
Ron Numbers wins Hilldale Award
Professor Ronald L. Numbers received the 2002-2003 Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities Division from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The prestigious Hilldale Awards, which recognize excellence in teaching, research and service, are awarded annually to one professor in each of the four university divisions: arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and biological sciences.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
By recent alumna Louise Robbins
Louise E. Robbins has published Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). From the publisher: "Based on wide-ranging and imaginative research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots stands as a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism."
Latest from Lindberg and Numbers
In October 2003, the University of Chicago Press will be releasing When Science and Christianity Meet, coedited by David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers. Three volumes of their jointly edited eight-volume Cambridge History of Science have now appeared.
New home for History of Medicine Library
In July 2004, the history of medicine collections moved to the Ebling Library, a fantastic new facility in the Health Sciences Learning Center. This building now houses the historical collections previously located at the Middleton Health Sciences Library. Further details can be obtained from Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Curator for History of Medicine - Historical Collections, at the Ebling Library.
NEW MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Warwick Anderson has been appointed Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health and chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics.