Chris Kirchgasler applied to become a member of the Holtz Center during his first year with the UW School of Education, because his scholarship draws significantly on STS work. This assistant professor works in the …
Year: 2020
Join new Holtz Center member, Lauren Schmitz for lunch seminar presentation
Professor Lauren Schmitz joined the Holtz Center last year, during her initial year on the UW-Madison campus. This assistant professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs joined the Holtz Center to connect with …
Statman joins Holtz Center – a “natural way” to expand intellectual community
While becoming a member of the UW-Madison community as an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities from 2019-21, Alexander Statman opted to join the Holtz Center’s community of STS experts shortly after …
Devin Kennedy joins Holtz Center and History department this fall
This fall, the Holtz Center will be welcoming historian, Devin Kennedy as a scholar within our center, which serves as a gathering place for scholars with an interest in science and technology studies across campus. …
HSMT Student Critiques Australia’s Plan to Cut the Humanities
Patrick Walsh, an HSMT student with the Holtz Center, recently had an article published in Crikey’s Inquiry Journalism, Inq, an independent, Australian digital news journal and commentary publication. Walsh’s article is a response to the …
Holtz Center Funds Thematic Research Cluster to Investigate the Implementation of Clean Energy in Wisconsin Communities
Holtz Center allocates $15,000 to support STS undergraduate researchers
The Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies (STS) offered a unique opportunity to its members and their undergraduate researchers during these challenging times, with many unknowns still existing over the summer months. After hearing …
Jeon receives best paper award from SSSP
June Jeon, a Holtz Center affiliate from the Department of Sociology recently received the 2020 George W. Smith Best Paper Award from the Society for Studies of Social Problem (SSSP) Institutional Ethnography division, one of …
2020 STS undergrad essay contest winners announced
Each spring, the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies releases two calls for funding opportunities for undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Along with an undergraduate research opportunity, the Holtz Center seeks papers …
Nyhart & Brossard among this year’s WARF and Kellett award recipients
Earlier this week, University of Wisconsin-Madison released the names of thirty-two faculty who have been awarded faculty fellowships for the upcoming academic year, 2020-21. These thirty-two awards include WARF Named Professorships, H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships …