
- helena@uwm.edu
- Holton Hall 318
Helena Pycior
- Professor Emerita, History
Education
- PhD, History, Cornell University
- MA, Mathematics, Cornell University
Courses Taught
- Hist 192 - Freshman Seminar - "Best Friends" - History of Human-Animal Relations
- Hist 229 - History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States
- Hist 398 - Darwin and Darwinism
- Hist 448 (900) - Seminar on American History: History of Human-Animal Relationships
- Hist 600 - Seminar in History - History of Human-Animal Relations
- Hist 940 - Seminar on Global History - Gender, Race, Science, and Medicine, the 19th and 20th Centuries
Teaching Interests
- Race, gender, science, and medicine
- History of human-animal relations
- Darwin and Darwinism
Research Interests
- History of human-animal relations
- History of race, gender, and science in the United States
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Intellectual and cultural history
Selected Publications
Pycior, Helena M.“"Animal-Human Relations"” Encyclopedia of MilwaukeeEd. Seligman, Amanda I., and Anderson, Margo J.Northern Illinois University Press. (): approximately 3,000 words of text.
Pycior, Helena M.“"Mathematics and Humor"” Alice in Wonderland, A Norton Critical Edition3rd edition. Ed. Gray, Donald J.New York: W. W. Norton. (2013): 378-383.
Pycior, Helena M.“"Beyond the Symbol of the Woman Scientist: Marie Sklodowska Curie from the Standpoints of Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover"” Polish Review57.2 (2012): 69-104.
Pycior, Helena M.“"Hunde in Weissen Haus: Warren G. Hardings Laddie Boy und Franklin D. Roosevelts Fala"” Tierische Geschichte: Die Beziehung von Mensch und Tier in der Kultur der ModerneEd. Brantz, Dorothee, and Mauch, Christof. Schöningh. (2010): 79-102.
Pycior, Helena M.“"Public and Private Lives of ‘First Dogs’: Warren G. Harding’s Laddie Boy and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fala"” Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of HistoryEd. Brantz, Dorothee. University of Virginia Press. (2010): 176-203.