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Rima Apple, Ph.D.Professor Emerita |
Professor Rima Apple held joint appointments in the School of Human Ecology Departments of Consumer Science and Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Ecology, Women’s Studies Program, Science and Technology Studies Program, and holds the position of Affiliate in the Department of the History of Medicine. She received her B.A. from New York University; her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Positions at other institutions include Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, spring 2001, Visiting Researcher, University of Auckland, New Zealand, summer 1999, Visiting Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, summer 1998 and Co-editor, Advancing the Consumer Interest, 1994-1998.
Her current research, focusing on “scientific motherhood,” is an analysis of the development and influence of the late nineteenth- and twentieth century ideology promoting the belief that mothers require scientific and medical experts in order to successfully raise their children. She also studies the history of consumerism, especially the role of vitamins in American culture, and the history of home economics as a profession for women. She prepared a history of the School of Human Ecology in celebration of its centennial in 2003 entitled “From home economics to human ecology: A one hundred year history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,” web site mounted September 2002, http:www.sohe.wisc.edu/depts/history/ . She has frequently lectured on these topics both here and abroad.
