Introduction
The UW-Madison Program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the largest, broadest, and most prestigious academic programs of its kind in the United States, offering an undergraduate major as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. The program is housed in the Department of the History of Science and staffed by faculty from that department and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics.
The program's fourteen tenured and tenure-track faculty members and affiliated scholars provide broad coverage of the field, with expertise in the physical, biological and social sciences from the Middle Ages to the present; medicine from the Middle Ages to the present; and technology from the nineteenth century to the present. The department has strong geographic coverage of Europe and the United States, with growing expertise in non-Western areas.
Administrative Structure and Ties to Other Programs
The undergraduate and graduate degree programs in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology are taught by faculty members whose appointments are primarily in the Department of History of Science (in the college of Letters and Sciences) and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics (in the Medical School). All members of Medical History and Bioethics who participate in the Program are also appointed as full members of the Department of History of Science, and the program is administered through the Department of History of Science. We also benefit from our close association with the Program in Science and Technology Studies, which brings together faculty in a variety of disciplines across the university who study science, medicine and technology as human institutions. Faculty members are also active in a wide range of interdisciplinary programs across campus, including Integrated Liberal Studies, Women's Studies, and the Center for Culture, History and the Environment, part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.