Fellows News
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Justice in Numbers? Statistics and Civil Rights in Postwar America
January 20, 2023
Consortium fellow Michael McGovern weaves together history of science and the history of civil rights in his examination of the rise of data-driven litigation surrounding issues of racial equality.
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Apply for NEH Fellowships for 2022-2023
September 18, 2022
The Consortium invites applications for 4- month or 9-month NEH Fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
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Welcome to 2022-2023 Consortium Research Fellows
August 29, 2022
We are delighted to welcome a new cohort of fellows conducting research in history of science, technology and medicine.
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Announcing the 2022-2023 Emanuel Fellow
July 6, 2022
The Consortium awards Aimee Slaughter the inaugural Emanuel Fellowship for her work on Making Atomic History in New Mexico.
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Announcing 2022-2023 Dissertation Fellows
May 17, 2022
Two Dissertation Fellows join the Consortium.
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CFP: Dossier on Science, Knowledge, and Society in Latin America
September 16, 2020
Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2021
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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.
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Consortium Research Fellowships Available
May 19, 2020
Apply by June 15 for Consortium Research Fellowships
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Southeast Asia and the Beginnings of the Primary Health Paradigm, 1948-1978
April 2, 2020
Vivek Neelakantan, Consortium Research Fellow
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Citizenship and Gender in the Correspondence of Technoscience Activists
February 21, 2020
Emma Schroeder, University of Maine
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow -
The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1880–1910
February 7, 2020
Jessica Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Jewish Midwives and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe
January 24, 2020
Jordan Katz, Columbia University
2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow -
Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles
January 17, 2020
Ayah B Nuriddin, Johns Hopkins University
2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow -
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.
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Hope and Human Defect in Progressive America
January 7, 2020
Chelsea Chamberlain, University of Pennsylvania
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Homo-Musicus: The Early Modern Sciences of the Human Body
December 17, 2019
Edward Barnet, Stanford University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
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Human Remainders: The Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection
December 5, 2019
Paul Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania
2018 to 2019 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow -
Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995
November 22, 2019
Alana L Staiti, Cornell University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries
October 31, 2019
Ashley Inglehart, Indiana University
2018 to 2019 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow -
Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century
October 10, 2019
Geoff Bil, New York Botanical Gardens
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
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.
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Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects
September 19, 2019
Scottie Hale Buehler, University of California at Los Angeles
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics
August 14, 2019
Elaine Ayers, Princeton University
2018 to 2019 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow -
Cyberdreams of the Information Age: Machines for Learning in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union
August 6, 2019
Ekaterina Babintseva, University of Pennsylvania
2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow -
Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective
July 31, 2019
Jaime Benchimol, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
"The People who Need Us Read Between the Lines": Eugenic Ideology in the Post WWII United States
July 17, 2019
Alexandra Fair, Miami University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic
June 27, 2019
Sean M Smith, Rice University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851-1981
June 18, 2019
Stephen Hausmann, Temple University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow -
Spring 2019 Fellows Update
May 19, 2019
Read about the latest updates from Consortium fellows.
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Winter 2018 Fellows Update
December 13, 2018
See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
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Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917
November 27, 2018
Daniel Vandersommers, The Ohio State University
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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
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“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath
November 6, 2018
Jonathan Jones, Binghamton University
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Fall 2018 Fellows Update
October 6, 2018
See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
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Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America
September 21, 2018
Kathrinne Duffy, Brown University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
August 23, 2018
Aprajita Sarcar, Queen’s University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century
August 9, 2018
Timothy Minella, Villanova University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
July 26, 2018
Lauren Rosati, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
American Women in Physics: Their Higher Education and Sites of Practice, 1870-1940
July 11, 2018
Joanna Behrman, Johns Hopkins University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939
June 28, 2018
Martha Groppo, Princeton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Characterizing Northern Nature in the Eighteenth Century
June 20, 2018
Emelin Miller, University of Minnesota
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941
June 7, 2018
Alma Igra, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Custom-Made Machines in an Era of Mass Production
April 26, 2018
Yuan Yi, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Spring 2018 Fellows Update
March 22, 2018
See recent publications, awards, and other news from our fellows.
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Public Health for African Americans – The First Campaign
January 25, 2018
Paul Braff, Temple University
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December 2017 Fellows Update
November 22, 2017
See recent updates on Consortium fellows.
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Rethinking the Ontology of Chinese Encyclopedias: The Life and Times of Treatise on Military Preparedness (1621)
November 21, 2017
Sarah Basham, University of British Columbia
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow -
Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, Showmanship & the Reinvention of the Anatomical Image, 1850-1950
November 14, 2017
Michael Sappol, Uppsala University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences 1958–2015
November 9, 2017
Rosanna Dent, University of Pennsylvania
2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence -
Tracing Links between American Chemical Companies and the Mexican Sulfur Industry
November 3, 2017
Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar, El Colegio de México
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
October 2017 Fellows Update
October 12, 2017
Catch up on Consortium fellows' recent accomplishments.
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The Astonishment of Experience: Psychical Research as Citizen Science
August 28, 2017
Alicia Puglionesi, Johns Hopkins University
2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow -
Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium
August 24, 2017
Michelle Smiley, Bryn Mawr
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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
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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.
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Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare in the United States, 1965-2000
August 9, 2017
George Aumoithe, Columbia University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise
July 26, 2017
Joseph Martin, National Science Foundation Research Scholar
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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.
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Medical Modernity: Rethinking U.S. Colonial Practices in the Philippines and the Health Work of Non-elite Women (1870-1948)
July 13, 2017
Christine Peralta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany
July 7, 2017
Tricia Ross, Duke University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755
June 21, 2017
Louis Gerdelan, Harvard University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
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.
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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
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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.
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Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys
June 8, 2017
AJ Blandford, Rutgers University
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“The Science of Prophecy”? The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change
May 31, 2017
Melissa Charenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016 to 2017 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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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Inside Out: Office Buildings and the Hybrid Nature of Space, 1870-1930
March 23, 2017
Betsy Frederick-Rothwell, University of Texas, Austin
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
An Unnatural History of Deep Time
March 16, 2017
Alison Laurence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow -
Congratulations to James Poskett
January 19, 2017
Congratulations to 2013-2014 Consortium Research Fellow James Poskett, who has been appointed Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, starting S -
Road to Eradication: Global Polio Vaccine Testing in the Cold War
November 8, 2016
Dora Vargha, Birbeck College, University of London
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains
October 30, 2016
Tamara Kneese, New York University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940
August 24, 2016
Sarah Sussman, University of Texas at Austin
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Planter’s Paradise: Nature and Culture on Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
August 11, 2016
Lawrence Kessler, Temple University
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow -
From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America
July 26, 2016
Joseph Malherek, George Washington University
2015 to 2016 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow -
Apothecary, Surgeon, Doctress, Slave: African and European Medicine in the British Slave Trade
July 12, 2016
Carolyn Roberts, Harvard University
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow -
Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985
June 20, 2016
Lisa Ruth Rand, University of Pennsylvania
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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
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Abe Gibson's book in press with Cambridge
April 19, 2016
Congratulations to Abe Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow), whose first book,
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A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska
April 19, 2016
Tess Lanzarotta, Yale University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Between Cope and Osborn: the Role of the American Biological Discourse on the Public Debate on Evolution
January 20, 2016
David Ceccarelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce and the State in American Seaports, 1790-1850
December 22, 2015
James Risk, University of South Carolina
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Congratulations to James Risk
November 25, 2015
Congratulations to James Risk, University of South Carolina, who was recently awarded the John A.
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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
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Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects
November 25, 2015
A Forum that Carin Berkowitz edited and in which she has an article,
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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
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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,
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The Peculiar Institution: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry
October 21, 2015
Wendy Gonaver, College of William and Mary
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925
October 16, 2015
Amanda Casper, University of Delaware
2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow -
In Search of the Social Impulse: Science and Conciliation during the Interwar Years, 1919-1939
October 16, 2015
Abraham Gibson, Florida State University
2014 to 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow -
Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia
October 14, 2015
Roberto Chauca Tapia, University of Florida
2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow -
Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany
October 7, 2015
Heidi Hausse, Princeton University
2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow -
Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815
September 16, 2015
Whitney Robles, Harvard University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow -
Fellowship Selection Process
August 13, 2015
The Consortium has awarded 100 research, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships
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Treating the Black Body: Race and Medicine in American Culture, 1800-1861
July 30, 2015
Christopher Willoughby, Tulane University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
Revolutions in the Atmosphere: Benjamin Rush’s Universal System of Medicine
July 21, 2015
Sarah Naramore, University of Notre Dame
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861
June 30, 2015
Nicole Belolan, University of Delaware
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
U.S. Biological Nativism and Japanese Invasions: Constituting Race through Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1950
June 25, 2015
Jeannie Shinozuka, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
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
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Congratulations to Douglas O’Reagan
May 28, 2015
Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Douglas O’Reagan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Congratulations to Roberto Chauca Tapia
May 23, 2015
Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Roberto Chauca Tapia, who has been awareded a Jeannette D.
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Heidi Hausse wins Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
May 7, 2015
Congratulations to Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who has won a
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One Hundred Years of Health: Changing Expectations for Aging Well in 20th Century America
April 28, 2015
Cara Fallon, Harvard University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South
February 24, 2015
Jonson Miller, Drexel University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Christopher Willoughby Awarded 1st Place Prize for Essay
November 19, 2014
Congratulations to Christopher Willoughby (2014-2015 Research Fellow), who was recently
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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.
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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.
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The Unconscious Mind in America, 1880-1917
November 18, 2014
Elizabeth Searcy, Brown University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow -
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
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Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915
October 2, 2014
Erin Corrales-Diaz, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science and Practice
September 23, 2014
Elisabeth Berry Drago, University of Delaware
2013 to 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
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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-
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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
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Rebecca Onion Signs Book Contract
August 10, 2014
Rebecca Onion was a postdoctoral fellow during 2012-2014.
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Teasel Muir-Harmony Appointed Postdoc at AIP
August 10, 2014
Teasel Muir-Harmony of MIT was a Dissertation Writing Fellow in 2013-2014.
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Julia Mansfield Wins Fellowship
August 10, 2014
Julia Mansfield of Stanford University was a Dissertation Writing Fellow for 2013-2014.
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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 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Terra Desconhecida: Nature, Knowledge, and Society in the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil and Bolivia
July 31, 2014
Jason Kauffman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia
July 31, 2014
Emily Handlin, Brown University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Chymical Medicine, Corpuscularism, and Controversy: A Study of Daniel Sennert’s Works and Letters
June 3, 2014
Joel Klein, Indiana University
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
June 3, 2014
Sarah Chesney, College of William and Mary
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855-1900
June 3, 2014
Matthew White, University of Florida
2011 to 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, <
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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.
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Morbid Propensities: Suicide, Sympathy, and the Making of American Eugenics
March 4, 2014
Kathleen Brian, George Washington University
2013 to 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, University of Connecticut
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Cross-Atlantic Fertilizations: Women’s Horticultural Education at Ambler, Pennsylvania
January 2, 2014
Donald Opitz, DePaul University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Printing skulls: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
October 10, 2013
James Poskett, University of Cambridge
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century
October 1, 2013
Lijing Jiang, Arizona State University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
The American Idiot Schools: Disability and Segregation in the Nineteenth Century
October 1, 2013
Kathryn Irving, Yale University
2013 to 2014 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 to 2013 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 to 2013 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 to 2013 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 to 2013 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 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Fellow Update: Christopher Jones
March 28, 2013
Former PACHS Fellow Chris Jones (Ph.D.
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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
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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 to 2013 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.
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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
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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 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939
October 31, 2012
Aimee Slaughter, University of Minnesota
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia
September 13, 2012
Laura Igoe, Temple University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948
June 12, 2012
Christopher Heaney, University of Texas at Austin
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America
May 24, 2012
Kuang-chi Hung, Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow -
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 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-2014
March 8, 2012
The Center now offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship for students of history of science, technology and medicine.
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Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
February 21, 2012
Susan Brandt, Temple University
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
"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 to 2012 Research Fellow -
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.
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Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949
November 1, 2011
Aelwen Wetherby, University of Oxford
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Making Museums of Medical History
October 20, 2011
Amanda Bevers, University of California, San Diego
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation
April 8, 2011
Cameron Strang, University of Texas at Austin
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow -
Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs
February 22, 2011
Dora Vargha, Rutgers University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow -
Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science
February 15, 2011
Nicholas Best, Indiana University
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow -
Crafting the Two Cultures: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970
January 13, 2011
Rebecca Miller, Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow -
Visiting Fellow: Terry Christensen
June 10, 2010
Terry wrote to PACHS recently about his post-doctoral work:
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The Social Relevance of Studying Domestication in the Early 20th Century
June 2, 2010
Nicholas Blanchard, Oregon State University
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow -
The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy
December 4, 2009
Andrew Berns, University of Pennsylvania
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow -
Isolating Liberty: The Home, the Prison, and the Asylum in Antebellum Literature
November 12, 2009
Kara Clevinger, Temple University
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow -
Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries
October 6, 2009
Karin Ekholm, Indiana University
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Hidden Waters: Groundwater Histories of Iran and the Mediterranean
September 21, 2009
Abigail Schade, Columbia University
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow -
Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930
September 10, 2009
Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Energy Landscapes: Coal Canals, Oil Pipelines, and Electricity Transmission Wires in the American mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930
September 8, 2009
Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
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
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century Natural History
June 11, 2009
Matthew Laubacher, Arizona State University
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894-1944
February 11, 2009
Miranda Paton, Cornell University
2007 to 2008 Research Fellow