Fellows News

Consortium Research Fellowships Available

January 25, 2021

Apply by April 15 to become a Consortium Research Fellow.

CFP: Dossier on Science, Knowledge, and Society in Latin America

September 16, 2020

Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2021

Senior & Junior Postdocs, Dissertation Fellowships for 2021-22

August 10, 2020

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.

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

July 16, 2020

Research on the first Chinese woman to obtain a medical degree in the U.S. leads to some valuable archival discoveries on women in the medical professions in Asia.

Consortium Research Fellowships Available

May 19, 2020

Apply by June 15 for Consortium Research Fellowships

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

April 2, 2020

Actors in Southeast Asia influenced local Cold War malaria eradication programs as well as the rise of a broader global health paradigm

Citizenship and Gender in the Correspondence of Technoscience Activists

February 21, 2020

Exploring how the home became a space to express new ecological epistemologies in the late twentieth century

The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1880–1910

February 7, 2020

The history of how medical training came to dematerialize the human body offers lessons for how we understand health and the body today

Jewish Midwives and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe

January 24, 2020

Bridging historical subfields to bring greater insight into the formation and flow of medical knowledge and authority

Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles

January 17, 2020

How African Americans mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism

December 2019 Newsletter

January 7, 2020

Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.

Hope and Human Defect in Progressive America

January 7, 2020

Finding the role of the family in the rise of eugenic institutions

Homo-Musicus: The Early Modern Sciences of the Human Body

December 17, 2019

Early modern philosophers from across western Europe found in music tools to connect the physical and even mechanical processes of the body with the more abstract phenomena of thought, cognition, health, and pleasure.

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

December 5, 2019

What becomes of cranial collections after the decline of cranial race science?

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

November 22, 2019

Investigating the history of computer-generated image-making reveals the materiality of computer modeling.

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

October 31, 2019

Investigating Robert Boyle's role in the development of the life sciences

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

October 10, 2019

Where does science end and ethnoscience begin?

October 2019 Newsletter

October 4, 2019

Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.

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

September 19, 2019

Investigating the history of objects and practices provides new insight into hidden actors in the history of midwifery.

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

August 14, 2019

A materialist examination of tropical plants gives an understanding of the intersection of art and science at the center of modern ways of using and understanding tropical nature.

Cyberdreams of the Information Age: Machines for Learning in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union

August 6, 2019

Examining software and psychological models as a front in the Cold War

Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective

July 31, 2019

The history of a tropical disease, often neglected by researchers and policy makers, suggests global connections of disease and healthcare.

"The People who Need Us Read Between the Lines": Eugenic Ideology in the Post WWII United States

July 17, 2019

How eugenics became "population genetics," and maintained influence into the late twentieth century

Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic

June 27, 2019

Research on the cultural context of the relationship between ideas about climate and race offers new insight into debates over slavery and the development of scientific racism.

Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851-1981

June 18, 2019

Environmental disasters reveal the enduring legacies of settler colonialism and conquest.

Spring 2019 Fellows Update

May 19, 2019

Read about the latest updates from Consortium fellows.

Winter 2018 Fellows Update

December 13, 2018

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.

Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

November 27, 2018

At the turn of the twentieth century, zoological parks became wildly popular in the United States. The rise of the American zoo brought with it a rise in popular zoology, with wide-ranging consequences for for science, technology and medicine.

Phonographs, Flying Machines, and the Animality of Modernity

November 8, 2018

Daniel Vandersommers, Assistant Professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University, and former Consortium NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, will deliver a pub

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

November 6, 2018

New research points to an opiate addiction epidemic from the nineteenth century.

Fall 2018 Fellows Update

October 6, 2018

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.

Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America

September 21, 2018

In the nineteenth century, phrenology transformed the relationship between scientists and the public.

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

August 23, 2018

How changing medical technologies helped change Indian families

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

August 9, 2018

The quest of a Philadelphia lawyer and naturalist to assemble the world's largest collection of hair and wool specimens provides a window into the scientific racial theories of the nineteenth century.

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

July 26, 2018

How did artist-engineers use new technologies to create a sonic register of the avant-garde?

American Women in Physics: Their Higher Education and Sites of Practice, 1870-1940

July 11, 2018

New research reveals the presence of a longstanding community of women in physics.

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

June 28, 2018

How has healthcare united far-flung places across the British Empire?

Characterizing Northern Nature in the Eighteenth Century

June 20, 2018

What does the Arctic reveal about the intersection of science and imperialism?

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

June 7, 2018

In the early twentieth century, Anglo-American collaborations in science and philanthropy brought about new standardized understandings of nutrition.

Custom-Made Machines in an Era of Mass Production

April 26, 2018

Mass production of cotton textiles depended upon preexisting artisanal expertise, demonstrating the significance of local agency in the history of industrial technology.

Spring 2018 Fellows Update

March 22, 2018

See recent publications, awards, and other news from our fellows.

Public Health for African Americans – The First Campaign

January 25, 2018

An examination of the history of U.S. public health initiatives demonstrates how African American communities have challenged social constructions of race.

December 2017 Fellows Update

November 22, 2017

See recent updates on Consortium fellows.

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

November 21, 2017

Multiple copies of a single book provide important clues for understanding the transmission and production of technical knowledge in China during a period of rapid political, social, cultural and epistemic change.

Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, Showmanship & the Reinvention of the Anatomical Image, 1850-1950

November 14, 2017

How did photographic practice transform medical anatomy?

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

November 9, 2017

For generations, Indigenous Peoples and human scientists have forged dynamic relations that have changed both local and scientific communities.

Tracing Links between American Chemical Companies and the Mexican Sulfur Industry

November 3, 2017

Documents at Consortium member archives provide information on the history of a transnational industry.

October 2017 Fellows Update

October 12, 2017

Catch up on Consortium fellows' recent accomplishments.

The Astonishment of Experience: Psychical Research as Citizen Science

August 28, 2017

The social history of ordinary people’s investigations of the mind suggests the development of modern psychology had both academic and popular roots.

Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

August 24, 2017

The history of photography as practice suggests a new geography for the emergence of an art form.

Jessica Linker Begins Bryn Mawr Postdoc on History of Women and Science

August 16, 2017

Congratulations to Jessica Linker (2013-2014 Research Fellow), who has been named CLIR Humanities & Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at Bryn Mawr College, where she will craft a digital

Private Aid, Political Activism: American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936-1949

August 16, 2017

A new book by Aelwen Wetherby (2011-2012 Research Fellow) examines the history of medicine, U.S. foreign relations, and humanitarianism in the mid-twentieth century.

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

August 9, 2017

The 1970s economic crisis had a lasting impact on responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise

July 26, 2017

During the early Cold War, industry and universities often collaborated--to both advance science and protect academic freedom.

Abraham Gibson Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

July 19, 2017

Congratulations to Abraham Gibson (2014-2015 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow), who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Medical Modernity: Rethinking U.S. Colonial Practices in the Philippines and the Health Work of Non-elite Women (1870-1948)

July 13, 2017

In the early twentieth century, Filipino health practitioners played a significant role in shaping U.S. empire and medical knowledge.

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

July 7, 2017

Finding connections between early modern conceptions of disease and natural history.

Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755

June 21, 2017

Act of God or nature? In the early modern era, people thought disasters were both.

David Ceccarelli Completes Ph.D. at University of Rome Tor Vergata

June 15, 2017

Congratulations to David Ceccarelli (2015-2016 Research Fellow), who recently completed his Ph.D. in Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences at University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Carin Berkowitz on the History of Science Museums

June 14, 2017

Congratulations to Carin Berkowitz (2009-2010 Dissertation Writing Fellow), on the publication of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Christopher Willoughby Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 13, 2017

Congratulations to Christopher Willoughby (2014-2015 Research Fellow) who will be postdoctoral fellow at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.

Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys

June 8, 2017

AJ Blandford is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University. In 2016-2017, she was a Consortium Research Fellow.

Michelle Smiley on Clockmaking in Philadelphia

June 6, 2017

Michelle Smiley (2016-2017 Dissertation Fellow) recently published an article on the history of clockmaking in Philadelphia for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.

Rosanna Dent Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship and is Appointed Assistant Professor

May 31, 2017

Rosanna Dent (2016-2017 Fellow in Residence) will be Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies at McGill next year, and will be assuming a position as assistant professor in the Federated D

Carolyn Roberts Appointed Assistant Professor at Yale

May 31, 2017

Carolyn Roberts (2015-2016 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a joint appointment in History/History of Science and Medicine and 

Julia Mansfield Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 31, 2017

Congratulations to Julia Mansfield (2013-2014 Dissertation Writing Fellow and 2014-2017 Fellow in Residence), who will be the Cassius M.

AJ Blandford Receives Huntington Library Research Fellowship

May 31, 2017

Congratulations to AJ Blandford (2016-2017 Research Fellow), who has received a Huntington Library research fellowship.

James Risk Completes Ph.D. at University of South Carolina

May 31, 2017

James Risk (2015-2016 Research Fellow) recently completed his Ph.D. in history of science and technology at University of South Carolina.

“The Science of Prophecy”? The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change

May 31, 2017

Melissa Charenko is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of the History of Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.

Emily Merchant Appointed Assistant Professor at U.C. Davis

May 31, 2017

Emily Merchant (2012-2013 Research Fellow) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the STS program at U.C. Davis.

Tamara Kneese Appointed Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of San Francisco

May 31, 2017

Congratulations to Tamara Kneese (2015-2016 Research Fellow), who has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Media Studies department of University of San Francisco.

Whitney Robles Publishes Two Articles

May 31, 2017

Whitney Barlow Robles (2015-2016 Research Fellow) published an article about a 1755 earthquake that shook Boston in The New England Quarterly, and an essay on flattened scientific specimen

Christopher Jones Receives Tenure and ACLS Fellowship

May 31, 2017

Congratulations to Chris Jones (2008-2009 Research Fellow), who was awarded tenure at Arizona State University as well as an ACLS fellowship for the project, 

Consortium Welcomes 2017-2018 Fellows

April 27, 2017

The Consortium is very pleased to welcome the scholars who will join the Consortium as fellows for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Consortium Wins 2nd NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant

April 18, 2017

The National Endowment for the Humanities has renewed a grant for a postdoctoral fellowship program in history of science, technology and medicine.

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

March 23, 2017

Betsy Frederick-Rothwell is a Ph.D. Student in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.

An Unnatural History of Deep Time

March 16, 2017

Alison Laurence is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.

Congratulations to James Poskett

January 19, 2017

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

November 8, 2016

Dora Vargha is Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. She was a Consortium Research Fellow in 2015-16.

Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains

October 30, 2016

Tamara Kneese received her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. In 2015-2016 she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

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

August 24, 2016

Sarah Sussman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2015-2016 she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

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

August 11, 2016

Lawrence Kessler is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of History at Temple University. In 2015-16, he was a Dissertation Fellow of the Consortium.

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

July 26, 2016

Joseph Malherek received his Ph.D. from George Washington University. In 2015-2016, he was the NEH Postdoctoral Fellow of the Consortium.

Apothecary, Surgeon, Doctress, Slave: African and European Medicine in the British Slave Trade

July 12, 2016

Carolyn Roberts is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University. In 2015-2016, she was a Dissertation Writing Fellow of the Consortium.

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

June 20, 2016

Lisa Ruth Rand is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015-16, she was a Dissertation Fellow of the Consortium.

Douglas O'Reagan takes up Postdoc at MIT

May 9, 2016

The Consortium wishes to congratulate Douglas O’Reagan (2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow) on his new post.

Ruth Rand publishes RAND Corporation document, accepts Mellon Postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison

May 6, 2016

Congratulations to Lisa Ruth Rand (2015-2016 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who recently accepted a 2016-2018 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dora Vargha awarded AAHM's J. Worth Estes Prize

May 1, 2016

Congratulations to Dora Vargha (2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow, 2015-2016 Research Fellow), who has recently been awarded the 2016 J.

Lijing Jiang's papers published in Historical Studies and BioSocieties

April 25, 2016

Congratulations to Lijing Jiang (2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow), two of whose papers have recently been published: “Retouching the Past with Living Things: Indigenous Species, Tradition, a

Susan Hanket Brandt wins OAH's Lerner-Scott Prize

April 21, 2016

Congratulations to Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow ), who was recently awarded the 2016 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians.

Chris Heaney appointed Assistant Professor at Penn State and Fellow at McNeil Center for Early American Studies

April 20, 2016

Congratulations to Chris Heaney (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow).

Heidi Hausse receives fellowship at Huntington, joins Columbia Society of Fellows

April 20, 2016

Congratulations to Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who is scheduled to defend her dissertation in mid-May 2016.

Benjamin Breen wins dissertation award, accepts Assistant Professorship at UC Santa Cruz

April 19, 2016

Benjamin Breen (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow) completed his PhD from UT Austin’s history department in May 2015 and took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society of Fellows at Columbia

Katherine Arner curates exhibition on World War I

April 19, 2016

Katherine Arner (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow) is in her second year as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and is curating the un

Abe Gibson's book in press with Cambridge

April 19, 2016

Congratulations to Abe Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow), whose first book,

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

April 19, 2016

Tess Lanzarotta is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Yale University.

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

January 20, 2016

David Ceccarelli is a PhD student at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. In 2015-2016, he was a Research Fellow of the Consortium. Read more about his research below.

Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce and the State in American Seaports, 1790-1850

December 22, 2015

James Risk is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of the University of South Carolina. In 2015-2016 he was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

Congratulations to James Risk

November 25, 2015

Congratulations to James Risk, University of South Carolina, who was recently awarded the John A.

Emily Klancher Merchant takes postdoc at Dartmouth College

November 25, 2015

Congratulations to Emily Klancher Merchant (2012-2013 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who recently began a postdoc at Dartmouth College, in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Depa

Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects

November 25, 2015

A Forum that Carin Berkowitz edited and in which she has an article,

Christopher Jones wins Edelstein Prize

November 25, 2015

Congratulations to Christopher Jones, whose book Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard, 2014) was recently awarded the Edelstein Prize by the Society for the History of Technol

Donald L. Opitz wins NSF award and lead edits volume on domesticity in modern science

November 2, 2015

Congratulations to past Consortium fellow Donald Opitz, who secured NSF funding to support the conference “Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge” in Prague, Czech Republic, June 5-8,

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

October 21, 2015

Wendy Gonaver (PhD, American Studies, College of William and Mary) was a Research Fellow of the Consortium in 2015-2016.

Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925

October 16, 2015

Amanda Casper is a PhD candidate in the History of Technology and Industrialization at the University of Delaware. In 2014-15, she was a Dissertation Writing Fellow at the Consortium.

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

October 16, 2015

Abe Gibson (PhD, History, Florida State University) was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Consortium in 2014-2015. Read more about his experience below.

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

October 14, 2015

Roberto Chauca Tapia is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Florida. In 2015-2016, he was a dissertation writing fellow of the Consortium.

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

October 7, 2015

Heidi Hausse is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. In 2014-2015, she was a Dissertation Writing Fellow at the Consortium.

Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815

September 16, 2015

Whitney Barlow Robles is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. In summer 2015, she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

Fellowship Selection Process

August 13, 2015

The Consortium has awarded 100 research, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships

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

July 30, 2015

Chris Willoughby is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Tulane University. In 2014-2015 he was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

Revolutions in the Atmosphere: Benjamin Rush’s Universal System of Medicine

July 21, 2015

Sarah Naramore is a PhD student in the History and Philosophy of Science Program at the University of Notre Dame.

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

June 30, 2015

Nicole Belolan is a Ph.D. candidate in History of American Civilization at the University of Delaware.

U.S. Biological Nativism and Japanese Invasions: Constituting Race through Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1950

June 25, 2015

Jeannie N. Shinozuka is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania releases journal issue with contributions from Consortium fellows

May 28, 2015

The spring 2015 issue of Pennsylvania Legacies, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, focuses on the history of science and technology in the Keystone State and includes artic

Congratulations to Douglas O’Reagan

May 28, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Douglas O’Reagan.

Congratulations to Jonson Miller

May 28, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Jonson Miller, who is currently Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University.

Sarah Bridger publishes book with Harvard University Press

May 28, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Sarah Bridger, whose first book, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research, was recently published with Harvard University Press.

Congratulations to Nick Best

May 28, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Nick Best, whose article, “Meta-Incommensurability between Theories of Meaning: Chemical Evidence,” recently appeared in Perspectives on Science.

Congratulations to Nicole Belolan

May 27, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Nicole Belolan, who received fellowship support from four sources for 2015-2016: A University Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Delaware (20

Congratulations to Abe Gibson

May 25, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Abe Gibson, who recently secured a book contract with Cambridge University Press for a revision of his dissertation, Born to Be Feral: An Evolutionary

Congratulations to Roberto Chauca Tapia

May 23, 2015

Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Roberto Chauca Tapia, who has been awareded a Jeannette D.

Heidi Hausse wins Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

May 7, 2015

Congratulations to Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who has won a

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

April 28, 2015

Cara Fallon is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of the History of Science. In 2014-2015, she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South

February 24, 2015

Jonson Miller is Associate Teaching Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Drexel University. In 2014-2015, he was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.

James Poskett Wins Adrian Research Fellowship

February 14, 2015

Congratulations to James Poskett (2013-2014 Research Fellow), who will be taking up the Adrian Research F

Congratulations to Joseph Martin

January 15, 2015

Joseph Martin (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow) began a fixed-term Assistant Professorship at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University this year.

Carin Berkowitz Elected To HSS Governing Council

December 15, 2014

Congratulations to Carin Berkowitz (2009-2010 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who has been elected to t

Congratulations to Susan Hanket Brandt

December 9, 2014

Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Research Fellow) successfully defended her dissertation, “Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740-1830,” and

Congratulations to Abe Gibson

November 21, 2014

Abraham Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow) has had two book chapters accepted for publication: "Beasts of Burden: Feral Burros and the American West," in The Historical Animal, edited by

Congratulations to Benjamin Breen

November 19, 2014

Benjamin Breen (2011-2012 Research Fellow) is now on a Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship to complete his Ph.D.

Christopher Willoughby Awarded 1st Place Prize for Essay

November 19, 2014

Congratulations to Christopher Willoughby (2014-2015 Research Fellow), who was recently

Congratulations to Heidi Hausse

November 18, 2014

Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow) is working on her dissertation this year as a Fellow at the Consortium.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Brideau

November 18, 2014

Jeffrey Brideau (2012-2013 Dissertation Writing Fellow) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Bond Rather Than A Barrier? Constructing the St.

The Unconscious Mind in America, 1880-1917

November 18, 2014

Elizabeth Searcy studies at Brown University and was a Research Fellow in summer 2014.

Lijing Jiang Awarded Postdoc at Nanyang Technological University

November 14, 2014

Congratulations to Lijing Jiang (2012-2013 Research Fellow), who has been appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at

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

October 2, 2014

Erin Corrales-Diaz is a graduate student in the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She was a Research Fellow at the Center in 2013-2014.

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

September 23, 2014

Elizabeth Berry Drago University of Delaware, Department of Art History 2013-2014 Research Fellow

Katherine Arner wins Postdoc at JHU

September 15, 2014

Congratulations to Katherine Arner (2011-2012 Research Fellow), who has just begun a three-year postd

Congratulations to Kurt MacMillan

September 1, 2014

Congratulations to Kurt MacMillan (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who has been appointed full-time lecturer in the Humanities Core Program at the University of California, Irvine for 2014-

Jeannie Shinozuka Awarded Mellon Postdoc at Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

August 15, 2014

Congratulations to Jeannie Shinozuka (2014-2015 Research Fellow), who has recently been granted a

Rebecca Onion Signs Book Contract

August 10, 2014

Rebecca Onion was a postdoctoral fellow during 2012-2014.

Teasel Muir-Harmony Appointed Postdoc at AIP

August 10, 2014

Teasel Muir-Harmony of MIT was a Dissertation Writing Fellow in 2013-2014.

Julia Mansfield Wins Fellowship

August 10, 2014

Julia Mansfield of Stanford University was a Dissertation Writing Fellow for 2013-2014.

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

July 31, 2014

Brandon Zimmerman Independent Scholar 2013-2014 Research Fellow

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

July 31, 2014

Jason Kauffman Department of History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2013-2014 Research Fellow

Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia

July 31, 2014

Emily Holladay Handlin Department of History of Art and Architecture Brown University 2013-2014 Research Fellow

Chymical Medicine, Corpuscularism, and Controversy: A Study of Daniel Sennert’s Works and Letters

June 3, 2014

Joel A. Klein Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University 2013-2014 Research Fellow

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

June 3, 2014

Sarah Chesney Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary 2013-2014 Research Fellow
 

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

June 3, 2014

Matthew A. White Department of History University of Florida 2011-2012 Research Fellow

Christopher Jones publishes book with Harvard University Press

May 1, 2014

Congratulations to Christopher Jones (2008-2009 Research Fellow), who published his first book,

Congratulations to Emily Handlin

April 2, 2014

Emily Handlin (2013-2014 Research Fellow) will be a 2014-2015 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art. She looks forward to completing her dissertation in May 2015.

Morbid Propensities: Suicide, Sympathy, and the Making of American Eugenics

March 4, 2014

Kathleen Brian Department of American Studies George Washington University 2013-2014 Research Fellow
 

"It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers": Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860

February 27, 2014

Jessica Linker Department of History University of Connecticut 2013-2014 Research Fellow

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

January 2, 2014

Donald Opitz Associate Professor School for New Learning DePaul University 2013-2014 Research Fellow

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

October 10, 2013

James Poskett University of Cambridge 2013-2014 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

October 1, 2013

Lijing Jiang Arizona State University 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

October 1, 2013

Kathryn Irving Yale University 2013-2014 Dissertation Research Fellow
 

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

October 1, 2013

Jeremy Blatter Harvard University 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

July 23, 2013

Douglas O'Reagan University of California, Berkeley 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

July 22, 2013

Catherine Bonier University of Pennsylvania 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
 

A Reinterpretation of American Institutions for the Feeble-minded, 1875-1920: the development of a “bureaucracy of care”

July 18, 2013

Katrina Jirik University of Minnesota 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

June 6, 2013

Jenna Tonn Harvard University 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Fellow Update: Christopher Jones

March 28, 2013

Former PACHS Fellow Chris Jones (Ph.D.

PACHS Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Onion receives the 2012 HSS Reingold Prize

December 6, 2012

The History of Science Society (HSS) has awarded the Nathan Reingold Prize to Rebecca Onion, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, for a chapter in her disse

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

December 6, 2012

Simon Thode Johns Hopkins University 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Fellow Update: Susan Hanket Brandt

December 4, 2012

Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Research Fellow) is currently a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fellow Update: Kurt MacMillan, Chris Heaney and Ben Breen

December 3, 2012

Kurt MacMillan (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a fellowship from the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College to participate in the 2013 Humanities Institute, "Tow

The Republic of Fever: Commerce, Warfare and the Making of Warm Climate Medicine in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

November 13, 2012

Katherine Arner Johns Hopkins University 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939

October 31, 2012

Aimee Slaughter University of Minnesota 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939 I am working on my dissertation on American radium therapy and th

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

September 13, 2012

Laura Igoe Tyler School, Art of Temple University 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philade

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

June 12, 2012

Christopher Heaney Harrington Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation

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

May 24, 2012

Kuang-chi Hung History of Science, Harvard University 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North Ame

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

April 3, 2012

Meghan Crnic University of Pennsylvania 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930.

Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-2014

March 8, 2012

The Center now offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship for students of history of science, technology and medicine.

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

February 21, 2012

Susan Brandt Temple University 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830

"Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You": the Social Relations of Health, Healing and Knowledge-Making in Eighteenth-Century Plantation America.

January 19, 2012

Claire Gherini Johns Hopkins University 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow "Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You": the Social Relations of Health, Healing and Knowledge-Making in

Fellow Update: Karin Eckholm

December 8, 2011

Karin Eckholm, 2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow, has sent us an update on her activities since leaving PACHS.

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

November 1, 2011

Aelwen Wetherby University of Oxford 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949 My

Making Museums of Medical History

October 20, 2011

Amanda Bevers University of California, San Diego 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow Of Specimens and Scalpels: Making Medicine in Museums The aim of my research has been to exami

Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation

April 8, 2011

Cameron Strang History, University of Texas at Austin 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the South

Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs

February 22, 2011

Dora Vargha History, Rutgers University 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow Polio outbreaks in Cold War Hungary serve as exceptional events, through which domestic and international healt

Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science

February 15, 2011

Nicholas Best History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University 2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow Antoine Lavoisier is already famous as the star of the chemical revolution, and muc

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

January 13, 2011

Rebecca Miller Graduate School of Education, Harvard University 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow The sciences are unique among the disciplines to the extent in which educators routinel

Visiting Fellow: Terry Christensen

June 10, 2010

Terry wrote to PACHS recently about his post-doctoral work:

The Social Relevance of Studying Domestication in the Early 20th Century

June 2, 2010

Domestication has long been a familiar trope for human social evolution among anthropologists and social scientists.

The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

December 4, 2009

Andrew Berns University of Pennsylvania

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

November 12, 2009

Kara Clevinger Temple University

Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries

October 6, 2009

The library at the College of Physicians is a treasure trove of sixteenth and seventeenth-century volumes pertaining to human and animal reproduction, or “generation,” and provided invaluable resou

Hidden Waters: Groundwater Histories of Iran and the Mediterranean

September 21, 2009

My dissertation in Global History is concerned with traditional technologies of groundwater irrigation associated with arid regions in Iran, the Ancient Near East, and parts of the ancient and medi

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

September 10, 2009

Christopher Jones University of Pennsylvania My dissertation studies the energy history of the American mid-Atlantic, the nation’s first region to use coal, oil, and electricity intensively.

Energy Landscapes: Coal Canals, Oil Pipelines, and Electricity Transmission Wires in the American mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930

September 8, 2009

My dissertation studies the energy history of the American mid-Atlantic, the nation’s first region to use coal, oil, and electricity intensively.

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

June 22, 2009

Tina Kibbe State University of New York at Buffalo My dissertation examines the connections between the eugenics and public health movements in the United States during the first half of the

Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century Natural History

June 11, 2009

Matthew Laubacher Arizona State University My dissertation “Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century Natural History” examines the relationship between understandings of evolutiona

Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894-1944

February 11, 2009

Miranda Paton Cornell University My dissertation, “Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894-1944,” describes the reorganization of modern evolutionary biology during the