Tamara Kneese, New York University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Sarah Sussman, University of Texas at Austin
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Lawrence Kessler, Temple University
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

Joseph Malherek, George Washington University
2015 to 2016 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Carolyn Roberts, Harvard University
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

Lisa Ruth Rand, University of Pennsylvania
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

The Consortium wishes to congratulate Douglas O’Reagan (2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow) on his new post. In August 2016, O’Reagan will take up a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, consulting on the future of the digital humanities at MIT. O'Reagan holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Washington – Tri Cities.

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.

September 30 - October 1, 2016 Columbia University, Princeton University, and The New York Academy of Medicine, are pleased to host the 14th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine on September 30 - October 1, 2016 in New York City. This year's conference will take place at the New York Academy of Medicine. JASMed is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health.

Congratulations to Dora Vargha (2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow, 2015-2016 Research Fellow), who has recently been awarded the 2016 J. Worth Estes Prize of the American Association for the History of Medicine for her paper, "Between East and West: Polio Vaccination Across the Iron Curtain in Cold War Hungary," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88 (2) Summer 2014. The J. Worth Estes Prize is awarded for the best published article in the history of pharmacology.

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Preparing high altitude cosmic ray experiment, W.F.G. Swann (1884-1962)Image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society