honors and accolades
STS Minor, Stepha Velednitsky, receives TA award for Exceptional Service
Stepha Velednitsky (UW-Madison Department of Geography) is one of fifteen UW-Madison graduate students to receive a 2019 teaching assistant award. Stepha’s award is for Exceptional Service. Stepha’s research focus is on Israel/Palestine, post-Soviet migration & …
Gaeta publishes STS article on targeted advertising & disabilities
Holtz Center graduate student affiliate, Amy Gaeta, recently published a science and technology studies-related article on targeted advertising online and on social media. Amy’s article, “Do Algorithms Know Your Body Better Than You?“, reviews online …
Tai explores “meat labeling” in Loyola Law Journal
Holtz Center member, Steph Tai (Law School), recently wrote an article on “meal labeling”, which was released in Loyola University Chicago Law Journal earlier this month. Legalizing the Meaning of Meat explores the history of …
Dr. Shiyanbola’s Project Receives Contemporary Social Problems Initiative Award
Olayinka Shiyanbola, a new member of the Holtz Center, and an Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative Sciences in the School of Pharmacy, recently received a UW-Madison Contemporary Social Problems Initiative grant. The team received …
New Holtz Center Member, Richert, authors book on legitimate and illegitimate, legal and illegal drugs
Recent Holtz Center Member, Associate Professor Lucas Richert, recently authored his latest book, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (2019), available on Amazon. Dr Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the …
Holtz Center’s Michelle Kelly quoted in Washington Post
Dr. Michelle Kelly, Associate Professor (CHS) of Pediatrics, was quoted in a recent Washington Post article about how tablet-based bedside patient portals, like those offered at American Family Children’s Hospital, can help parents of hospitalized …
Cooper publishes essay: “Figures for ‘Gretter Knowing’: Forms in the Treatise on the Astrolabe”
In the spring of 2018, Holtz Center Member, Lisa Cooper published her essay, “Figures for ‘Gretter Knowing’: Forms in the Treatise on the Astrolabe”, Chapter 5 of Chaucer and the Subversion of Form, ed. Thomas …
Popkewitz Organizes International Conference in Sweden
Thomas Popkewitz, a new member of the Holtz Center this spring, is currently organizing a three day conference at the University of Uppsalla, Sweden, Sweden’s first University. The conference is called, The International Emergence of …
Nelson Awarded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship
Holtz Center member, Nicole Nelson was awarded a one-year residential fellowship (2018-19) at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University to begin a new project on the “reproducibility crisis” in biomedicine. This is a recent phenomenon …