Department News for 2006-07
Arrivals and Departures
Warwick Anderson is leaving UW-Madison for University of Sydney, where he will be University Research Professor in the History Department and the Centre on Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine. We will miss Warwick's creative intellect.
Three UW-Madison faculty who have joined the department as affiliates: Rima Apple, professor emeritus, School of Human Ecology; Greg Downey, associate professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications and of Library and Information Studies; and John Rudolph, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction.
Faculty in the News
Gregg Mitman was profiled in the Madison Capital Times on June 11, 2007.
Awards and Honors
Warwick Anderson has won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for his project, "The science of race mixing in the twentieth century."
Ronald Numbers was elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 2005.
Books
Lynn Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, early 2008).
Ronald L. Numbers, Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming August 2007).
Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). Recently reviewed in the Seattle Times.
Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added nearly 150 new pages to the revised edition of his classic work. The Financial Times selected the revised edition as a pick of the year.
Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
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 (forthcoming in 2007).
Gregg Mitman, "Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature" Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
Eric Schatzberg, "Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology Before 1930," Technology and Culture 47 (July 2006): 486-512.
Walton O. Schalick, "Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician," in J. Duffin, ed. Clio in the Clinic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 27-45.
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.