Fellows

2024 to 2025

  • Matteo Bortolini

    University of Padova, Italy

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    The Effective Look of Things: A Two-Tier Biography of Clifford Geertz

  • Kristy Bowers

    University of Missouri

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Ordinary or Dangerous Pestilence? Defining New Diseases in Early Modern Spain

  • Emma Broder

    Harvard University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America

  • Tad Brown

    University of Cambridge

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Fats from Seed: Chemistry, Peanut Breeding, and Food Science

  • Lydia Crafts

    Manhattan College

    2024 to 2025 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    “Little Empire”: Medicine, Public Health and Human Experimentation in 20th Century Central America

  • Charles Davidson

    University of Florida

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Battlefields of Mind and Matter: Psychological Warfare and the Cold War Struggle for the Body, Mind, and Soul in Guatemala

  • Anna Doel

    Independent Scholar

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Friends in Odd Places: U.S.-Soviet Scientific Contacts during the Cold War

  • Salem Elzway

    University of Southern California, Society of Fellows in the Humanities

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Race Against the Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in Postwar America

  • Alfredo Escudero

    Florida International University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    The Land is the Laboratory: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Colonial Andes

  • Sam Franz

    University of Pennsylvania

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    From Computing Centers to Computer Science: The Political Economy of US Universities and the Rise of Computing, 1930-1990

  • Adriana Fraser

    University of Pennsylvania

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Making Danger: biological weapons research, biosafety, and the management of microbial life, 1940-1990

  • Cory Gatrall

    Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at UMass Amherst

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Race, Racism, and Reproduction in Public Health Nursing, 1900-1940

  • Robert Hancock

    University of Victoria

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Indigenous Anthropologists and the Emergence of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the 1960s and 1970s

  • William Krause

    Vanderbilt University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    "Scientific Genius: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Idea in Modern America, 1880-1990"

  • Jingwen Li

    Princeton University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    A Phantom History of Phantom Ocular Impairment (1830-1930)

  • Jonathan MacDonald

    Brown University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Expert Advice: Mediating Social Science’s Public Aspirations, 1930-1965

  • Elizabeth Maher

    University of Illinois at Chicago

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Building Mechanical Boys: What Autism History Tells us about Constructions of Race, Disability, Gender and Class in the Mid-20th Century United States

  • Samantha Muka

    Stevens Institute of Technology

    2024 to 2025 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Conservation and Marine Pollution in the New York Bight, 1960-present

  • Samm Newton

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    2024 to 2025 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Expert Enclosure

  • Nidia Olvera Hernández

    Radboud University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Traditional Uses of Mexican Psychoactive Plants. From the Creation of a National Pharmacopeia to Ethnographical Collections 1900-1957

  • Yovanna Pineda

    University of Central Florida

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Spectacular Bodies: Aesthetics of Labor & Technology in Argentina, 20th Century

  • Magnus Schaefer

    McGill University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    The Early Digital: From Statistical Prediction to Digital Signal Processing, 1951–1969

  • Tanya Sheehan

    Colby College

    2024 to 2025 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art

  • Jeannie Shinozuka

    Washington State University

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Model Minority Intelligence: Race, Education, & Citizenship, 1910-1965

  • Alistair Sponsel

    2024 to 2025 Emanuel Fellow

    Documenting traditional knowledge of coral reefs in the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago

  • Katherine White

    University of California, San Diego Department of History, Science Studies Program

    2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

    Anatomy and the Search for Natural Man

2023 to 2024

  • Evan Bonney

    Centre for History (CHSP), Sciences Po

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Forests and Power in the United States Empire, 1891-1914

  • Peter Braden

    Ph.D., Department of History, University of California-San Diego

    2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow

    Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and the Making of the Life Sciences in China, 1940-1980

  • Lu Chen

    Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Alternative Road to Alma-Ata: Social Medicine and Socialist Medicine Roots of Primary Health Care from the Third World

  • Laura Clerx

    Ph.D. Candidate, History, Boston College

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850

  • Al Coppola

    John Jay College, CUNY

    2023 to 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    Enlightenment Visibilities

  • Julia Cummiskey

    Department of History, University of Tennessee Chattanooga

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Selling Wellness: Marketing Materials, Behaviors, and Services for Improved Health in Modern Africa

  • Warren Dennis

    PhD candidate in History, Boston University

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    "Politically Inspired Scarcity": Energy and Masculinity in the Post-OAPEC Era

  • Isabela Dornelas

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Follow the Thread: a comparative history of absorbable materials in suture

  • Suvendu Ghatak

    Department of English, University of Florida

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Malaria and the Political Ecology of Development in Twentieth-century South Asia

  • Minseok Jang

    University at Albany, State University of New York

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911

  • Heewon Kim

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Coding Actions, Making Faces: Understanding the Human Through Faces 1960 – 2000

  • Shirley Kinney

    Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

    2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Untangling the Manuscripts and Medicine of the Pseudo-Apuleius Group

  • Alexei Kojevnikov

    Department of History, University of British Columbia

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Knabenphysik: Cultural Crises, Postdoctoral Revolt, and Social Contexts of the Quantum Revolution

  • Oliver Lazarus

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life

  • Jamie Marsella

    PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    "The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930

  • Catherine Mas

    Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida International University

    2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Sweet Captivity: A Transnational History of Primatology and Culture

  • Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

    Assistant Professor, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Chasing the Magic Bullet: This History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

  • Derek Nelson

    Ph.D., Department of History, University of New Hampshire

    2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow

    Reexamining Historical Introductions of Marine Wood-Boring Species from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology

  • Donald L. Opitz

    Associate Professor, DePaul University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)

    2023 to 2024 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920

  • Bican Polat

    Humanities, New York University Shanghai

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Adjustment, Mental Hygiene, and Child Study: The Advent of the Personality and Culture Perspective in American Social Science

  • Jennifer Reiss

    PhD candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

  • Chelsea Schields

        Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine

    2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Charged Currents: Electric Power in the Caribbean

  • Y. L. Lucy Wang

    PhD candidate in Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894-1949

  • Jiemin Tina Wei

    PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950

  • Angela Xia

    PhD candidate in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    The Rest of Life: Hospice, Aging, and the Expansion of Palliative Care in America, 1971-2000

  • Che Yeun

    PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University 

    2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

    The Finishing Touch: Cleaning and Feeling Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970

2022 to 2023

  • Derek Baron

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

  • Barrie Blatchford

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Unnatural Selection: Animal Acclimatization, Nation-Building, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1865-1970

  • Camilla Cannon

    Ph.D. Student, Department of American Studies, George Washington University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Standard: The Institutionalization of Transgender Medicine

  • Leo Chu

    Ph.D. Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Harvesting Diversity: Ecology, Agriculture, and the Remaking of Development, 1970-2010

  • Nayanika Ghosh

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

    2022 to 2023 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science

  • F. Eliza Glaze

    Professor, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University

    2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Medicine in the Making: Reading Hippocrates and Galen in Early Salerno and Monte Cassino

  • Benjamin Goossen

    Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

  • Anthony Greco

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Engineering Egypt: Science, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Empire

  • Holly Gruntner

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William & Mary

    2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow

    Fertile Ground: Kitchen Gardens and Knowledge Production in Early America

  • Hiro Hirai

    Research Associate, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University

    2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Science and Medicine

  • Rana Hogarth

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenic Race-Crossing Studies and the Legacies of Slavery

  • Zsuzsanna Ihar

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Arming the Field: The Deployment of Agricultural Science in the Context of War and in its Aftermath (1990-2020)

  • Adam Johnson

    Ph.D., Department of History, University of Michigan

    2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest

  • Bethany Johnson

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina

    2022 to 2023 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922

  • Judith Kaplan

    Ph.D., National Science Foundation Research Scholar

    2022 to 2023 Fellow in Residence

    Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research

  • Julia Marino

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Postindustrial Crusade for Technological and Economic Competitiveness

  • Margaret Maurer

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow

    Everyday Alchemy

  • Julia Menzel

    Ph.D. Candidate,  Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Enigmatic Nature: Absent Laws and Hidden Objects in Theoretical Physics, 1967-2004

  • Sarah Naramore

    Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwest Missouri State University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930

  • Matthew Newsom Kerr

    Associate Professor, Department of History, Santa Clara University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Re-Visualizing Vaccination: The British and American “Anti-Anti-Vaccinationist” Movement, 1890-1914.

  • Udodiri Okwandu

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Transgressive Motherhood: Diagnostic Privilege, Race, and Maternal Mental Illness in American Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, 1890 - 1970

  • Marianne Quijano

    Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Florida

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    A Primordial Whiteness: Science, Religion, and Race in Twentieth-Century Panama

  • Nicole Rehnberg

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    White Roots, Redwoods: Racializing Conservation in Germany and the US, 1920-1945

  • Boyd Ruamcharoen

    Ph.D. Candidate, Programn in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Tropical Preservation: Media Technologies and American Power in the Postcolonial Tropics

  • Claire Sabel

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Rare Earth: Gemstones Geohistories and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe c. 1600-1750

  • Sam Schirvar

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Manufacturing Self-Determination: Cold War Electronics in Tribal Development, Black Empowerment, and Prison Industry

  • Aimee Slaughter

    Ph.D., Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota

    2022 to 2023 Emanuel Fellow

    Making Atomic History in New Mexico

  • Matthew Soleiman

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, San Diego

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    The Person in Pain: A Genealogy of Bodily Experience, 1906-1999

  • Hannah Srajer

    Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Yale University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    The Torture Cure: Behavior Modification and Rehabilitative Logics in the American Carceral State, 1960-1990

  • Gina Surita

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970

  • Chang Xu

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis

    2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

    Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and Qing Empire, 1640-1800

2021 to 2022

  • Charis Boke

    Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College

    2021 to 2022 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    A Dose of Herbalism: Evidence and Efficacy in North American Medical History

  • Richard Del Rio

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Behavioral Science and Social Medicine, Florida State University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Dope Town: The Drug Markets of Chicago, 1850-1940

  • Jennifer Eaglin

    Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Going Nuclear: The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry

  • Martha Espinosa

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Duke University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    The Science of Family Planning: Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge

  • Paul Forman

    Curator Emeritus, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

    2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

    An Empirico-Critical Examination of “Vienna Indeterminism”

  • Michelle Frank

    M.A. Student, Biography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    The Daughter Particle: Chien-Shiung Wu and Twentieth Century Physics  

  • Jean Franzino

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Dis-Union: Disability, Narrative, and the American Civil War

  • Ryan Hearty

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    The Pollution Experts: Water and Environmental Engineering in the United States, 1948 to 1990

  • Kelsey Henry

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Developmental Humanisms: Black Histories of Developmental Science and Biomedicine in the Twentieth-Century U.S.

  • Matthew Hoffarth

    Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

    The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019

  • Melanie Kiechle

    Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Desensitizing Health

  • Hannah LeBlanc

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Nutrition for National Defense: US Food Science in World War II and the Cold War

  • Mia Levenson

    Ph.D. Student, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Tufts University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Eugenics and the Politics of Scientific Performance

  • Jess Libow

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Emory University

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century United States

  • Marcelo Lima Loreto

    Ph.D., History of Science and Technology and Epistemology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Brazilian Genetics and Politics during the Cold War (1940-1950s)

  • Katherine McLeod

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University

    2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

    How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology

  • Sara Meloni

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Radical Science Collectives between Italy and the US in the Long 1960s

  • Emily Merchant

    Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Molecular Eugenics

  • Kate Mulry

    Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Bakersfield

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    “‘it nourisheth the Child in the Womb’: Chocolate, Reproduction, and Colonization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica”

  • Nic John Ramos

    Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, Drexel University

    2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Policing Health: Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986

  • Jesse Ritner

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    'White Gold': Weather, Technology, and the Rise of the North American Ski Industry, 1900-Present

  • Lauren Ruhrold

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    No Standard Definition: The Medical Device Industry and Its Social and Cultural History

  • Leah Samples

    Ph.D. Candidate, History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

    2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow

    Visual Citizenry: The State, Technology, and Blindness in New Deal America and Beyond

  • Henry Schmidt

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Social Scientists, Industrial Evolution, and the Study of Artefacts in Progressive Era America

  • Heather Vrana

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

    2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

    Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America, 1954-1996

  • Patrick Walsh

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

    Raised from the Living: Making Therapy from Biology, 1880s-1940s

  • Nicole Welk-Joerger

    High Meadows Environmental Institute Fellow, Princeton University

    2021 to 2022 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    Rumen Nation: An Environmental History of the United States

  • Madeline Williams

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

    2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow

     Challenging the Ableist State: Blind Organizing Through Technology and Welfare in the Era of the American Eugenics Movement, 1865-1940

  • Matthew Wisnioski

    Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech

    2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of Science Education

2020 to 2021

  • Maria Paula Andrade Diniz de Araujo

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    The State of the Poor: State Building and Public Health in Modern Brazil, 1834-1920

  • Eve Buckley

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Hunger Politics during the Early Cold War: Intellectuals from the Global South Contest the Overpopulation Paradigm, 1948-1973

  • Sally Chengji Xing

    Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, Columbia University

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    “Pacific Crossings”: Paul Monroe, John Dewey and the Architecture of Modern Chinese Scientific Research and Education, 1913-1949

  • Kerri Clement

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Wonderland’s Festering Wound: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, and Brucellosis in Twentieth-Century Yellowstone and Montana Borderlands

  • Matthew Foreman

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Science and Security: Constructing the Modern Chinese Citizen, 1900-1966

  • Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

    Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Internal Economies: Air Conditioning, Industrial Environments, and Working Bodies, 1890-1940

  • Hongdeng Gao

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

    2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow

     Migration, Medicine and Power: How Chinese New Yorkers Gained Better Access to Health Care, 1949-1999

  • Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Avocado Landscapes: The Rise and Expansion of the U.S.-Mexico Avocado Industry, 1910-2000

  • Matthew Hoffarth

    Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine 

    2020 to 2021 Fellow in Residence

    The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019

  • Judith Kaplan

    Ph.D., Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Body

  • David Korostyshevsky

    Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Disciplining the Drunkard: The Medico-Legal History of Habitual Drunkenness in Nineteenth-Century America

  • Justin Linds

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, New York University

    2020 to 2021 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Rot Before Microbes: Creating Knowledge and Value in the Early Modern Atlantic

  • Michael McGovern

    Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Princeton University

    2020 to 2021 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    Just in Numbers? Statistics and Civil Rights in Postwar America

  • Katherine McLeod

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University

    2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow

    How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology

  • Joris Mercelis

    Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    The Long Shadow of Kodak: Corporate Knowledge Empires and the Internationalization of Science

  • Hillary Nunn

    Professor, Department of English, University of Akron

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Domestic Medicine on the Move: Household Mobility and Early Modern Recipe Collections

  • Claire Oliver

    Ph.D. Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Everywhere at Once: Meteorology, Communications, and the Construction of Global Climate, 1865-1900

  • Kelly O`Donnell

    Ph.D., Department of History, Yale University

    2020 to 2021 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Hippocratic Vows: How the Doctor's Wife Transformed American Medicine

  • Alexander Parry

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Risky Homes: Domestic Accidents from the Progressive Era to the Consumer Movement

  • James Rick

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William and Mary

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Cultivating Machines: Capitalism and Technology in Midwestern Agriculture, 1830-1900

  • Tillmann Taape

    Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambrdige

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Distillation: Craft Knowledge, Medicine, and Chemistry in Early Modern Europe

  • Rachel Walker

    Assistant Professor,  Department of History, University of Hartford

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America

  • Arnaud Zimmern

    Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame

    2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

    Touching Kings, Drinking Gold: Crises of Sovereignty in Jacobean Medicine

2019 to 2020

  • Ellen Abrams

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Making Mathematics American: Representation, Labor, and Engagement during the Growth of American Mathematics, 1894-1945

  • Hannah Anderson

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America

  • Ekaterina Babintseva

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

    2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

    Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age

  • Howard Chiang

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Translators of the Soul: From the First Chinese Psychoanalyst to the Rise of Transcultural Psychiatry

  • Marcos Cueto

    Professor, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    A History of Global AIDS and Health Activism in Brazil

  • Ryan Dahn

    Ph.D., Department of Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago

    2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

    Nazi Entanglement: Pascual Jordan, Quantum Mechanics, and the Legacy of the Third Reich

  • Menglu Gao

    Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literary Studies and English, Northwestern University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    The Lacquered Chinese Box: Opium, Addiction, and the Fantasy of Empire in Nineteenth-century British Literature

  • Kit Heintzman

    Lecturer, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Medicine Unbridled: Veterinarians and Multispecies Statecraft, 1750-1815

  • Alani Hicks-Bartlett

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Medieval Studies, Brown University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    The Cure Gone Awry: Gender, Dis/ability, and the Ailing Empire in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

  • Johanna Hood

    Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Vital Fluid: Evolving Social, Moral and Economic Values of Blood and Cadavers in China

  • Lawrence Kessler

    Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

    Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi

  • Charles Kollmer

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbes, Microbiologists, and the Chemical Order of Nature

  • Christa Kuljian

    Research Associate, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Persistent Biological Myths: Fifty Years of Creating a Feminist Approach to Science and Technology Studies (STS), 1969-2019

  • Xiao Li

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Southern Illinois University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    "A New Woman”: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in the U.S. and China, 1864-1934

  • Diana Louis

    Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the 19th Century

  • Zachary Mann

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Literature and Media Studies, University of Southern California

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Computing History

  • Patrícia Martins Marcos

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Political Medicine: Science Sovereignty and the Government of Imperial Bodies in the Portuguese Atlantic (1715-1818)

  • Cristina Nigro

    PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

    2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow

    The Active Brain - A History of the Electrophysiological and Molecular Study of Cognition in the 20th Century

  • Megan Piorko

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Georgia State University 

    2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow

    Chymical Collections: Seventeenth-Century Textual Transmutations in the Work of Arthur Dee and Elias Ashmole

  • Aditya Ramesh

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Vital Cities: Public Health, Non-Human Life and Infrastructure in South Asian Cities, 1890-1970

  • Katherine Reinhart

    Ph.D., History of Art, University of Cambridge

    2019 to 2020 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV’s France

  • Alexis Rider

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    A Melting Fossil: Ice, Life, and Time in the Cryosphere, 1840-1970

  • Emma Schroeder

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maine

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Women's Transnational Technological Activism and the Origins of Ecological Domesticity, 1960-1989

  • Dorin Smith

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Brown University

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel

  • Justin Tackett

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of English, Stanford University

    2019 to 2020 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    Poetry and Sound Technology, 1816-1914; Hardy and Radio; Poetics and the Prehistory of Silent Film, c.1880-c.1930

  • Rebecca Woods

    Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

    2019 to 2020 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Body of Animal, Body of Evidence: Paleolithic Remains and the History of Science

  • Sarah Xia Yu

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

    2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

    Healthy and Hygienic Publics in Republican China, 1912--1949

2018 to 2019

  • Elaine Ayers

    Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science, Princeton University

    2018 to 2019 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics

  • Ekaterina Babintseva

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

    2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

    Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age

  • Edward Barnet

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Stanford University

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Homo Musicus: The Early Modern Musical Science of the Human Being

  • Jaime Benchimol

    Senior Researcher, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective.

  • Geoff Bil

    Ph.D. New York Botanical Gardens

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

  • Scottie Hale Buehler

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects

  • Chelsea Chamberlain

    Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Diagnostic Clinics and the Problem of Human Defect in Progressive America

  • Benjamin Cohen

    Associate Professor, Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies, Layfayette College 

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    The Future of Agriculture: A Technological History

  • Jessica Dandona

    Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1914

  • Theodora Dryer

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

    2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

    Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961

  • Alexandra Fair

    M.A. Candidate, Department of History, Miami University

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Eugenic Expectations: How the Medical Economy Changed and Sustained Eugenic Ideology in Post-WWII America

  • Ellery Foutch

    Assistant Professor, American Studies, Middlebury College

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    The Artists' Models: Natural History Specimens and their Illustrations

  • Stephen Hausmann

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1850-1992

  • Ashley Inglehart

    Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University

    2018 to 2019 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries

  • Jordan Katz

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

    2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

    Jewish Midwives, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800

  • Lawrence Kessler

    Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University   Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

    Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi

  • Paul Mitchell

    Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

    2018 to 2019 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Human Remainders: the Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection

  • Vivek Neelakantan

    Ph.D. 

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Southeast Asia and the Beginnings of the Primary Health Paradigm, 1948-1978

  • Ayah B Nuriddin

    Ph.D Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

    2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

    Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles, 1890-1970 

  • Lisa Ruth Rand

    Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

    Space Junk: An Environmental History of Waste in Orbit

  • Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Elusive Evidence, Enduring Fluidity: Historical Trajectories of the “Mongolian Spot”as a Marker of Race

  • Neeraja Sankaran

    Ph.D.

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    A Longue-Durée Microhistory of RSV at the Rockefeller: The Institutional Life of an In-House Discovery.

  • Michelle Smiley

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr

    2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

    Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

  • Sean M Smith

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rice University

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglo-Atlantic

  • Alana L Staiti

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995

  • Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes

    Professor for the History of Science, Department of History, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    The Genetics of the Brazilian Northeastern Population, 1950-1980: Heredity, Race and Culture

  • Laurel J Waycott

    Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Patterns of Creation: Organic Form in the Science of Life, 1880-1930

  • Kazuki Yamada

    Ph.D. Candidate, University of Exeter and University of Queensland

    2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

    Later Life Sexuality and its Genealogies of Knowledge: The Sciences of Sex and Ageing, c. 1870 – 1980.

2017 to 2018

  • Kevin Baker

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

    2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow

    World Processors: Computer Modeling, Global Environmentalism, and the Birth of Sustainable Development

  • Joanna Behrman

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Higher Education in Physics

  • Nicole Belolan

    Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861

  • Paul Braff

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Enthroning Health: The National Negro Health Movement and the Fight to Control Public Health Policy in the African American Community, 1915-1950

  • Theodora Dryer

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

    2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow

     Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961

  • Kathrinne Duffy

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Brown University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Antebellum America

  • Kate Grauvogel

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones and Blood Clots, 1784 -1963

  • Martha Groppo

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939

  • Nabeel Hamid

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy

  • Alma Igra

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

     Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941

  • Jonathan Jones

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Binghamton University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    “A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

  • Lawrence Kessler

    Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    Planter's Paradise: Environment, Empire, and the Making of Hawaiʻi's Sugarcane Plantation System

  • Joseph Martin

    National Science Foundation Research Scholar

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University

  • Emelin Miller

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Empire of Ice: Arctic Natural History and British Visions of Nature, 1650-1800

  • Timothy Minella

    Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century

  • Taylor Moore

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semicolonial Upper Egypt (1875-1960)

  • Lauren Rosati

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933

  • Michael Sappol

    Ph.D., Research Fellow, Uppsala University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, showmanship & the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950

  • Aprajita Sarcar

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Queen’s University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77

  • Adam Shapiro

    National Science Foundation Research Scholar

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    An Unfit Darwinist: Disability, Slander and America's First Evolution Trial

  • Michelle Smiley

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr

    2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

    Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

  • Daniel Vandersommers

    Ph.D., Department of History, The Ohio State University

    2017 to 2018 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

  • Yuan Yi

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

    2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

    Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Textile Factories in Early Twentieth-Century China

2016 to 2017

  • Leah Aronowsky

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Configuring "Life" in the Biosphere, 1950-2000

  • George Aumoithe

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965-2000

  • Sarah Basham

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of British Columbia

    2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

    Rethinking the Ontology of Chinese Encyclopedias: The Life and Times of Treatise on Military Preparedness (1621)

  • AJ Blandford

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys

  • Nicholas Bonneau

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Notre Dame

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Unspeakable Loss, Distempered Awakenings: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765

  • Melissa Charenko

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science University of Wisconsin-Madison

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    "The Science of Prophecy"? The Role of the Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916-2015

  • Rosanna Dent

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

    Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015

  • Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

    Ph.D. Student School of Architecture University of Texas, Austin

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Inside Out: Office Buildings and the Hybrid Nature of Space, 1870-1930

  • Louis Gerdelan

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Calamitous knowledge: understanding disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic worlds, 1666-1755

  • Lawrence Kessler

    Ph.D. Department of History Temple University

    2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

    Planter’s Paradise: Nature and Culture on Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations

  • Alison Laurence

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    An Unnatural History of Deep Time: Extinct Animals and the Politics of Place in the Modern United States

  • Julia Mansfield

    Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

    2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

    The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

  • Joseph Martin

    National Science Foundation Research Scholar

    2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

    Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University

  • Christine Peralta

    Ph.D. Student Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Labor Pains: Working Class Women's Access to Healthcare in the Philippines, 1898-1950

  • Alicia Puglionesi

    Ph.D. History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Johns Hopkins University

    2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    The Astonishment of Experience: Americans and Psychical Research, 1885-1935

  • Tricia Ross

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Duke University

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany

  • Michelle Smiley

    Ph.D. Student History of Art Bryn Mawr

    2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

    Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

  • Angela Smith

    Adjunct Assistant Professor of History Austin Community College Ph.D., History University of Texas, Austin

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    The Romantic Roots of Evolution in Scotland

  • Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar

    Ph.D. Student Department of History, El Colegio de México

    2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

    Miners, Oilmen and Chemists: Globalization and Technology in Mexican Sulphur Industry (1933-1972)

2015 to 2016

  • David Ceccarelli

    Ph.D. Candidate Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences University of Rome Tor Vergata

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Between Cope and Osborn: the Role of the American Biological Discourse on the Public Debate on Evolution

  • Wendy Gonaver

    Ph.D. American Studies Program College of William and Mary

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    The Peculiar Institution: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry

  • Phillip Honenberger

    Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University

    2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence

    The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages

  • Lawrence Kessler

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University

    2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

    Planter’s Paradise: Agriculture, Ecology, and Science in Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations, 1778-1920

  • Tamara Kneese

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains

  • Tess Lanzarotta

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska

  • Jongmin Lee

    Lecturer Engineering and Society University of Virginia

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Rayon: Poisoned History of Empowerment

  • Shana Lopes

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History Rutgers University

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    “The Fraternity throughout the World”: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890

  • Joseph Malherek

    Department of American Studies George Washington University

    2015 to 2016 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America

  • Julia Mansfield

    Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

    2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence

    The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

  • Alexander Moffett

    Ph.D. Candidate CHSS / Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    The Circulation of Medical Knowledge: Collective Investigation, 1860-1920

  • Lisa Ruth Rand

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

    Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985

  • Miriam Rich

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science Harvard University

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Race and Defective Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Science, Medicine, and Law

  • James Risk

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of South Carolina

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce, and the State in American Seaports, 1790 - 1860

  • Carolyn Roberts

    Ph.D. Candidate African and African American Studies Harvard University

    2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

    Surgeon, Fetish Woman, Apothecary, Slave: The Medical Culture, Labor, and Economy of the British Slave Trade, 1680-1807

  • Whitney Robles

    Ph.D. Candidate American Studies Harvard University

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815

  • Maxwell Rogoski

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Surface and Self: Science and the Social Economy of Skin in the Twentieth Century

  • Sarah Sussman

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of English University of Texas at Austin

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940

  • Dora Vargha

    Postdoctoral Research Associate Birbeck College, University of London

    2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

    Road to Eradication: Global Polio Vaccine Testing in the Cold War

2014 to 2015

  • Nicole Belolan

    University of Delaware

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861

  • Amanda Casper

    University of Delaware

    2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

    Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925

  • Cara Fallon

    Harvard University

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    One Hundred Years of Health: Changing Expectations for Aging Well in 20th Century America

  • Abraham Gibson

    Ph.D., Department of History Florida State University

    2014 to 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow

    In Search of the Social Impulse: Science and Conciliation during the Interwar Years, 1919-1939

  • Abigail Glogower

    University of Rochester

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    Lives of the Copyists: Replicating Subjects in Antebellum American Print Culture 1820-1860

  • Heidi Hausse

    Princeton University

    2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

    Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany

  • Phillip Honenberger

    Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University

    2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence

    The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages

  • Julia Mansfield

    Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

    2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence

    The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

  • Jonson Miller

    Associate Teaching Professor Drexel University

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South: The Southern Military Schools and the Foundation of the New South

  • Sarah Naramore

    University of Notre Dame

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    The Last Great System: Benjamin Rush's Physiological Worldview

  • Elizabeth Searcy

    Brown University

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    The Unconscious Mind in America, 1880-1917

  • Jeannie Shinozuka

    Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    Biotic Borderlands: Constituting Race in Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1945

  • Roberto Chauca Tapia

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida

    2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

    Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia

  • Christopher Willoughby

    Tulane University

    2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

    Treating the Black Body: Race and Medicine in American Culture, 1800-1861

2013 to 2014

  • Kathleen Brian

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of American Studies George Washington University

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Morbid Propensities: Suicide, Sympathy, and the Making of the Eugenic Public, 1843-1903

  • Sarah Chesney

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    The Fruit of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex and the Rise of American Botany in Early Federal Philadelphia

  • Erin Corrales-Diaz

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915

  • Elisabeth Berry Drago

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History University of Delaware

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science and Practice

  • Emily Handlin

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Art and Architecture Brown University

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia

  • Kathryn Irving

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    The American Idiot Schools: Disability and Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

  • Jason Kauffman

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Terra Desconhecida: Nature, Knowledge, and Society in the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil and Bolivia

  • Joel Klein

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Chymistry, Corpuscularism, and Controversy: The Ideas and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)

  • Jessica Linker

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Connecticut

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    "It is My Wish to Behold Ladies among my Hearers": Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860

  • Julia Mansfield

    Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

    2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow

    The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

  • Teasel Muir-Harmony

    Ph.D. Candidate History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow

    The Space Race and American Public Diplomacy

  • Rebecca Onion

    Ph.D. Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin

    2013 to 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow

    Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s

  • Donald Opitz

    Associate Professor School for New Learning DePaul University

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Cross-Atlantic Fertilizations: Women’s Horticultural Education at Ambler, Pennsylvania

  • James Poskett

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    Printing skulls: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)

  • Kristen Ann Woytonik

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of New Hampshire

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    A Healthy Independence: The Politics, Science, and Business of Healthcare in Early Republic Philadelphia

  • Brandon Zimmerman

    Independent Scholar

    2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

    An Empire of Skulls: The History of The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection and Scientific Collecting Practices in 19th Century Philadelphia.

2012 to 2013

  • Jeremy Blatter

    Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Film and Visual Studies Harvard University

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920

  • Catherine Bonier

    Ph.D. Candidate Architecture Department University of Pennsylvania

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium

  • Jeffrey Brideau

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Maryland

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow

    A Bond Rather than a Barrier: Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway, An Environmental History

  • Tisha Hooks

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of African American Studies Yale University

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination

  • Laura Igoe

    Ph.D. Candidate Tyler School of Art Temple University

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia

  • Lijing Jiang

    Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Arizona State University

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century

  • Katrina Jirik

    Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    American Institutions for the Feeble-minded from 1875 to 1920: a Reinterpretation

  • Emily Merchant

    University of Michigan

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century

  • Rebecca Onion

    Ph.D., Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin

    2012 to 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow

    Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s

  • Douglas O’Reagan

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War

  • Ann Robinson

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow

    Creating a Symbol of Science: The Standard Periodic Table of the Elements

  • Aimee Slaughter

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939

  • Simon Thode

    Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology The Johns Hopkins University

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820

  • Jenna Tonn

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University

    2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Show-Room and the Workshop: The Laboratory within the Natural History Museum and the Development of American Biology, 1850 – 1935

2011 to 2012

  • Katherine Arner

    Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Johns Hopkins University

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Shaped by Fever, Commerce and War: American Medicine and Public Health in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

  • Amanda Bevers

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, San Diego

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Making Museums of Medical History

  • Susan Brandt

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830

  • Benjamin Breen

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas, Austin

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Tropics and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1760

  • Meghan Crnic

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930

  • Claire Gherini

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Johns Hopkins University

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of British Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800.

  • Christopher Heaney

    Ph.D. Candidate (Harrington Doctoral Fellow) Department of History University of Texas at Austin

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948

  • Kurt MacMillan

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Irvine

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow

    Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965

  • Joseph Martin

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow

    Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993

  • Funke Sangodeyi

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1990s

  • Aelwen Wetherby

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Department of History University of Oxford

    2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949

  • Matthew White

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida

    2011 to 2012 Research Fellow

    Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855 - 1900

2010 to 2011

  • Kuang-chi Hung

    Ph.D. Candidate History of Science Harvard University

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America

  • Andrew McGee

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Virginia

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Mainframing America: Computers, Systems, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy and Society, 1940-1985

  • Rebecca Miller

    Ph.D. Candidate Graduate School of Education Harvard University

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Crafting the Two Cultures: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970

  • Joanna Radin

    Ph.D. Candidate History & Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow

    Life on Ice: Frozen Blood, Human History, and Biodiversity in a Genomic Age

  • Madhumita Saha

    Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Technology Iowa State University

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow

    State Policy, Agricultural Research and Transformation of Indian Agriculture, With Special Reference to Basic Food Crops, 1947-1985

  • Paul Shin

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University; Ph.D. Candidate Department of Medicine University of Rochester

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Insensible Souls: Mesmerism, Science, and the American Imagination, 1837-1860

  • Cameron Strang

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas at Austin

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763-1840

  • Dora Vargha

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University

    2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: The International Governance of Polio in the Cold War from a Hungarian Perspective

2009 to 2010

  • Carin Berkowitz

    Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow

    Making British Medicine: Practice and Pedagogy in the Early Nineteenth Century

  • Andrew Berns

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Pennsylvania

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

  • Nicholas Best

    Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science

  • Nicholas Blanchard

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Domestication: The Culture of a Science in the 20th Century

  • Kara B. Clevinger

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of English Temple University

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Isolating Liberty: The Home, the Prison, and the Asylum in Antebellum Literature

  • Ellery Foutch

    Ph.D. Candidate History of Art University of Pennsylvania

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale's Butterflies, Heade's Hummingbirds, Blaschka's Flowers, and Sandow's Body

  • Anna Geltzer

    Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow

    Epistemology in Flux: Changing Conceptions of What Counts as Clinical Evidence in 20th and 21st Century Russia

  • Abigail Schade

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

    2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Traditional Qanat Irrigation Technologies in Arid Environments: A Global Environmental History, with Evidence from Iran, the Western Desert of Egypt, and the Balearic Islands of Spain

2008 to 2009

  • Karin Ekholm

    Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Department Indiana University

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries

  • Christopher Jones

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930

  • Tina Kibbe

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History SUNY Buffalo

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950

  • Matthew Laubacher

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Arizona State University

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Assessing the Role of European Thought: The Culture of Collecting in 19th-Century American Natural History

  • Nicholas Spicher

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science and Technology Johns Hopkins University

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

    A Study of the 18th-Century Use and Growth of Scientific Demonstrations in the Context of University Instruction

  • Theodore Varno

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow

    The Nature of Tomorrow: Inbreeding in Practice and Theory in the Anglo-American Context, 1860-1950

  • Damon Yarnell

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow

    Motor City: Ford, Mass Production and the Industrial Ecology of Detroit, 1908-1927

2007 to 2008

  • Sarah Bridger

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

    2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991

  • Terry M. Christensen

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University

    2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

    John Archibald Wheeler: A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of 20th Century Physics

  • Melissa J. Grafe

    Ph.D. Candidate Institute of the History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University

    2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

    ‘To attendance and medicine’: Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820

  • Eric S. Hintz

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

    2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

    The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950

  • Miranda Paton

    Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

    2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis

  • Mary Elizabeth Zundo

    Ph.D. Candidate School of Fine and Applied Arts University of Illinois

    2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

    Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier