Andrew Ruis

Position title: Researcher, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and Fellow, Department of Surgery

Phone: (608) 263-1208

Address:
Room 489, Educational Sciences Building

Andrew R. Ruis is Associate Director for Research in the Epistemic Analytics lab at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and a fellow in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States, as well as numerous articles on the history of food, nutrition, and health; quantitative ethnography and digital humanities; and STEM and medical education. Dr. Ruis also edits the book series RE:Past—Studies in the History of Nutrition, which is published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and he is a co-founder and editor of H-Nutrition.

Interests

Public health nutrition, children’s health, medical education, medical decision-making.

Curriculum Vitae

Andrew Ruis’s C.V.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, 2011

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, 2004

B.A. & B.S., University of California, Davis, Comparative Literature & Microbiology, 2002

Books

Andrew R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2017).

Selected Book Sections

“Nutrition Classes and Clinics” section in Andrew F. Smith, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Selected Articles

Andrew Ruis, “Annals and Analytics: The Practice of History in the Age of Big Data,” Medical History 61:2 (2017), in press.

A. R. Ruis, D. Williamson Shaffer, D. K. Shirley, & N. Safdar, “Training Clinicians to Adopt a Systems Perspective for Improved Control and Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections,” American Journal of Infection Control 44:11 (2016), 1360–1364.

Andrew Ruis, “‘Children with Half-Starved Bodies’ and the Assessment of Malnutrition in the United States, 1890-1950,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87:3 (2013), 380-408.

Andrew Ruis and Robert N. Golden, “The Schism Between Medical and Public Health Education: A Historical Perspective,” Academic Medicine 83:12 (2008), 1153-1157.

Website: www.andrewruis.com