About

Bridget D. Collins is a PhD candidate in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.A. (History) from the University of Vermont in 1998, her M.A. (History) from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2000, and completed a second M.A. (History of Science) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. She is currently working on her dissertation, "From the Cradle to the Grave: Infectious Disease in the Twentieth Century American Home," under the direction of Professors Judith Walzer Leavitt and Susan E. Lederer. 

Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Fellowship, the Robert F. & Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the Graduate Student Collaborative, the Maurice L. Richardson Fellowship, the Charles Donald O'Malley Fellowship for Research in the History of Medicine and Allied Fields at UCLA, and the John Neu Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship. In 2010 she received the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Wide Teaching Assistant Award recognizing Early Excellence in Teaching and in 2013 the Capstone Ph.D. teaching award for outstanding teaching throughout University of Wisconsin-Madison tenure.

She is currently finishing writing her dissertation while working full time at the Dewey Graduate Library at the University at Albany in Albany, NY. 

She also serves on the board of the Albany Ultimate Disc Association.

And she has hiked 20 of the 46 High Peaks of the Adirondacks.