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Holtz Center Newsletter — Fall 2021
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September 27, 2021
Holtz Center provides support to 13 additional graduate students engaged in STS
Each spring, the Holtz Center offers a variety of funding opportunities for its membership, members of the campus STS community and graduate students engaged in the field of science and technology studies. The 2020-21 award …
July 1, 2021
Rubel’s ‘Algorithms & Autonomy’ available on Cambridge Core Open Access
Holtz Center Steering Committee member and Information School Associate Professor Alan Rubel’s new book Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (with Clinton Castro of Florida International University and Adam Pham of California …
June 3, 2021
Four Holtz Center affiliates recognized for research contributions on campus
Four Holtz Center affiliates were recently recognized on campus for their outstanding research contributions. The four members were among the slate of thirty-three UW-Madison faculty who received 2021-22 WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships and Romnes …
May 27, 2021
Holtz Center seeks grad student to support center’s 20th anniversary
The Holtz Center seeks a graduate student hourly employee to assist in planning, coordination, information gathering and creation of materials related to the Center’s 20th anniversary. Hourly duties are expected to be fairly light during the spring semester, with increasing …
April 29, 2021
Holtz Center helps Hutchins collaborate — impact of new technologies & use of science in public policy-making
The Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies is thrilled to have welcomed Assistant Professor, B Ian Hutchins to its roster earlier this academic year. Professor Hutchins is a new faculty member in the Information …
April 15, 2021
iSchool’s Ni joins Holtz Center
iSchool’s Chaoqun Ni recently joined the UW-Madison community last fall, after serving on the faculty at the University of Iowa. Upon her arrival as an Assistant Professor in Madison, she opted to begin networking and …
April 15, 2021
Holtz Center seeks new Associate Director
The Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies (STS) is seeking a new Associate Director. Please consider sharing this information with your colleagues who may be interested in joining our team. The deadline for applications …
March 4, 2021
Submit your STS sock photos!
Holtz Center members and staff are proudly showing off their STS socks, as our center celebrates its 20th anniversary! We’re spotting them online — from home offices, desks and just lounging around. Sandals in February, …
February 2, 2021
Holtz Center announces spring STS lunch seminar series lineup
The Holtz Center announces the lineup for its spring STS lunch seminar series. The center is hosting a total of seven lunchtime seminars via Zoom over the next several months. More details for each of …
January 27, 2021Holtz Center awards 16 STS mini fellowships to UW grad students during pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted our graduate students’ lives in every way possible. Their experience as a UW-Madison graduate student has been turned upside-down as the pandemic, restrictions and schedule changes have interrupted their research …
January 14, 2021
4S 2021 Call for Papers, Closed Panels, Posters & Presentations – open Jan 17-March 8
The purpose of calling for open panel proposals is to stimulate the formation of new networks around topics of interest to the STS community and to facilitate the organization of exciting paper sessions. Open panel …
January 14, 2021
Becoming-Feral – Call for Submissions, extended to Feb 1
becoming-Feral is a creative research publication which aims to investigate the complex relationships between human/other-animals and the shifting categories of wild/feral/domestic, set within landscapes constantly being altered by global transformations of climate and capitalism. We …
January 14, 2021
Popkewitz edits book that explore international mobilizations of sciences related to education after WWII
Holtz Center member, Thomas Popkewitz, along with Daniel Pettersson and Kai-Jun Hsiao, recently edited the newly published, “The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years: Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of …
October 26, 2020
Lewis connects with other feminist STS scholars through Holtz Center
The Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Urology both recently welcomed Kelsey Lewis as a new postdoctoral fellow on the UW-Madison campus. Lewis is the 2020-2022 Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology, with an …
October 20, 2020
Holtz Center allows Jackson to collaborate with & learn from like-minded scholars.
“The Holtz Center allows me to collaborate with and learn from like-minded scholars.”, states one of our newest STS colleagues from the Information School, Corey Jackson. Jackson, who is a 2020-21 Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral …
October 14, 2020
Newman brings his science communication niche to Holtz Center
Earlier this fall, Todd Newman presented over our newly-formatted STS lunch seminar series. His well-received virtual seminar shared original evidence about how the United States public and scientists both view the brand of science and …
October 14, 2020
Johnson joins Holtz roster, intersecting feminist STS & Cultural Studies
Whether working on campus this fall or remotely, the Holtz Center continues to be a natural outlet for STS colleagues to collaborate, share ideas and support research efforts in science and technology studies. The Holtz Center …
October 13, 2020
Former UW STS researchers collaborate on marine biomaterials & ocean governance project
Three recent UW-Madison researchers have begun a three-year project titled “Circulatory Entanglements: Marine Biomaterials and Paradoxes in Ocean Governance”, funded by the UK-based Leverhulme Trust. The project is led by Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, formerly a …
October 9, 2020
Holtz Center supports ‘Dear Pandemic’ translation on all-Spanish mirror site
While we have all been asking a lot of questions during the pandemic, Malia Jones (Community and Environmental Sociology) and her “Nerdy Girl” colleagues, Sandra Albrecht (Columbia University) and Tita Smyth Escobedo have been busy …
September 24, 2020
Morgan Edwards brings interdisciplinary lens to the climate crisis
Morgan Edwards is our newest Holtz Center scholar this semester. This Assistant Professor, joins us from the La Follette School of Public Affairs and is a natural fit with our other science and technology studies …
August 27, 2020
New historian of technology, Williford, connects with Holtz Center
Please join us in welcoming Holtz Center scholar, Daniel Williford to the UW-Madison campus this semester. In addition to his science and technology studies interests, Daniel’s research interests include the history of disaster, infrastructures and …
August 20, 2020
Holtz Center support advances student’s research surrounding female roles in jihadi groups
Nils Peterson is currently studying history at UW-Madison. This past summer he completed some very interesting research, with financial support from the Holtz Center. Peterson researched how technological developments between 1979-2020 influenced the roles women …
August 20, 2020
STS colleague, Kirchgasler examines the historical and comparative qualities of schooling
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 …
August 6, 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 …
August 6, 2020
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 …
August 5, 2020
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. …
August 5, 2020
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 …
July 2, 2020
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 …
June 19, 2020
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 …
June 10, 2020
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 …
June 5, 2020
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 …
May 13, 2020
Interested in studying adolescents/young adults and technology use?
Interested in studying adolescents/young adults and technology use? Authors: Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH and Kole Binger, BS Holtz Center Steering Committee member Dr. Megan Moreno’s research team is the Social Media and Adolescent Health …
May 11, 2020Jeon headed to Tufts University to pursue fellowship
Holtz Center affiliate, June Jeon will be joining Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life as a postdoctoral fellow in Civic Science. The Civic Science Initiative at the Tisch College seeks to repair the disconnection …
May 1, 2020
Religious Studies’ Rock-Singer joins our community of STS scholars
This spring, Cara Rock-Singer is completing her first year as a faculty member in the UW Religious Studies Program. This new assistant professor, specializing in North American Religions, also joined the Holtz Center for Science …
April 14, 2020
Wardrip brings his passion for STEAM education to our STS gathering place
The Holtz Center is thrilled to add Peter Wardrip’s passion for the instruction of science, technology, engineering, the arts and math to its diverse group of experts in science and technology studies. Professor Wardrip’s research …
April 13, 2020
Horowitz pushes boundaries of postcolonial STS research
Dr. Leah Horowitz joined the Holtz Center last fall from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies (School of Human Ecology). She has been an Assistant Professor …
April 10, 2020
Neyrat sheds light on planetary humanities with Holtz Center
The Holtz Center recently welcomed Frédéric Neyrat, a French philosopher to its membership, which is approaching 100 diversified members from various areas of science and technology studies from across the UW-Madison campus. Neyrat has been …
April 8, 2020New ‘My Body, My Chart’ course offered by iSchool’s Arnott Smith
If you are exploring a career in health information or have similar interests in academia, industry and librarianship, students should consider a new online course from Holtz Center member, Professor Catherine Arnott Smith. Arnott Smith, …
March 26, 2020Spring 2020 Travel Award Update
Update on Spring 2020 travel awards If faculty, staff or students hold a current Holtz Center travel award, but your conference or research trip was cancelled, you may roll your award over to another STS-related …
March 20, 2020Join the new STS & HSMT Slack Channel & Contribute to Teach the Virus
Holtz Center member, Nicole Nelson has set up a slack channel for HSMT and STS students to keep folks in touch during this period of cocooning! Please join, and feel free to share. In addition, …
March 20, 2020Lo joins Holtz Center community to encourage knowledge-sharing across disciplines
The Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies recently welcomed its newest member, Adeline Lo (Political Science), to its roster earlier this year. Lo joins the Holtz Center and it’s growing membership – approaching 100 …
March 9, 2020Holtz Center funding helps Ipsen release recent publication
Colorado State University’s Annabel Ipsen, recently released her latest publication, with support from the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. “Repeat Players, the Law, and Social Change: Redefining the Boundaries of Environmental and Labor …
March 9, 2020Nelson listed as Finalist for 2019 Cheiron Prize
Nicole Nelson’s new book, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (University of Chicago Press, 2018) was recently named as a Finalist for the 2019 Cheiron Book Prize. Nicole was one …
February 13, 2020Hennessy speaks on Wisconin Public Radio about “On the Backs of Tortoises”
Holtz Center affiliate, Elizabeth Hennessy, was on Wisconsin Public Radio on February 12. She was talking about her book, “On the Backs of Tortoises”, which was named a Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science …
February 13, 2020
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 & …
February 11, 2020Holtz Center Annual Meeting & Reception, slated for Feb 13
Holtz Center members should please consider joining us for the Holtz Center’s annual meeting and reception. Personal invitations will be sent to membership in late-January. Thursday, February 13, 4-6 pm Steenbock’s on Orchard, 330 North …
January 23, 2020Holtz Center membership offers vibrant discussions for Kirchgasler & STS colleagues
The Holtz Center recently welcomed several new members, including Katie Kirchgasler, from the School of Education. Katie is a new Assistant Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Department, where she also received her Ph.D. Katie …
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