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Helena Pycior, Professor

Office: Holton Hall Room 318
Phone: (414) 229-3966
E-mail: helena@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1976

Current Research Interests:
Race, gender, science, and medicine in the United States
Canine biography of the 19th and 20th centuries
Gender, disability, and rehabilitation in the 20th century
Scholarship of teaching and learning applied to large lecture courses

Current Teaching Interests:
Race, gender, science, and medicine in the United States
History of human-animal relations
Darwin and Darwinism

Publications:
"The Making of the 'First Dog': President Warren G. Harding and Laddie Boy," Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies 13, no. 2 (2005): 109-138.

Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's "Universal Arithmetick" (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Creative Couples in the Sciences, coedited with Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996)

"Pierre Curie and 'His Eminent Collaborator, Mme Curie': Complementary Partners," in Creative Couples in the Sciences, ed. Helena M. Pycior, Nancy G. Slack, and Pnina G. Abir-Am (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996), 39-56, 298-302

"The Philosophy of Algebra" and "Mathematics and Prose Literature," in Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, ed. Ivor Grattan-Guinness (London: Routledge, 1994), 1, 794-805 and 2, 1633-1643

"Reaping the Benefits of Collaboration While Avoiding Its Pitfalls: Marie Curie's Rise to Scientific Prominence," Social Studies of Science 23 (1993): 301-323

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