Paper Presenters
Visiting Participant
UW Faculty
UW Graduate Students

Paper Presenters
Congratulations to the eight graduate students whose proposals were selected from over 60 applications!

Sarah Besky is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her WHEATS paper is on "Garden Variety Kinship: Shifting Moral Economies and Relationships of Care on Darjeeling Tea Plantations."

Ashley Carse is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His WHEATS paper is entitled "Of Bananas and Boats: Transportation, Agriculture, & Rural Governance in the US Canal Zone, 1921-1932."

Joseph Horan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Florida State University. His WHEATS paper is on "Fibers of Empire: Cotton Cultivation in France and Italy During the Napoleonic Era."

Chang-Hao Pio Kuo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at New York University. His WHEATS paper is on "The Raising of Pigs and the Practice of Eating Pork in Early Modern China."

Todd Meyers is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Southern Methodist University working on a dissertation on "The Chile Triangle: An Environmental History of the Chile Pepper in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." His WHEATS paper is entitled "Getting the Machine into the Garden: the Nature and Technology of Southern New Mexico’s Chile Peppers."

Maya Peterson is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University working on a dissertation on "Technologies of Rule: Empire, Water and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867-1941." Her WHEATS paper is on "Cultures of Cotton: Russian Development Schemes in Central Asia, 1905-1941."

David Singerman is a Ph.D. student in the Program in Science and Technology Studies at MIT. His WHEATS paper is on "Science and Work in Pure Sugar: The Meaning of 'Chemical Control.'"

Anna Zeide is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her WHEATS paper is entitled "From Farm to Can: The Canning Industry and Agricultural Production in the Early Twentieth Century."

Visiting Participant
In addition to those presenting papers, we are also pleased to be hosting the following scholar from outside the UW:

Shane Hamilton, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia

UW Faculty
The following faculty will be on hand over the course of the weekend:

Jess Gilbert, Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology (all events)

Nancy Langston, Professor of Forestry and Wildlife Ecology, Environmental Studies, and History (publishing panel)

Susan Lederer, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics and Chair, Medical History and Bioethics (all events)

Gregg Mitman, William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History and Bioethics, and Science and Technology Studies (kickoff talk)

Eric Schatzberg, Associate Professor of History of Science (all events)

Matt Turner, Professor of Geography, African Studies, Development Studies, and Science and Technology Studies (all events)

UW Graduate Students
Graduate students from the sponsoring departments and centers will also participate in the workshop.

Kellen Backer, History of Science and History

Andrew Case, History

Todd Dresser, History

Megan Raby, History of Science

Amrys Williams, History of Science