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.
Johns Hopkins University Special Collections and Archives recently made the following acquisitions: MS.0718: David P. Stern archives, 1973-2010 Born in Czechoslovakia, David Stern grew up in Israel, studying physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on an underground experiment on cosmic rays.
The Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia recently began to sort and catalog medical trade ephemera, reprints, and government documents that were collected in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. This collection consists of 700 boxes equating to approximately 70,000 uncatalogued items.
This spring, the New York Academy of Medicine Library acquired a German manuscript cookbook from ca. 1700, compiling several hundred recipes. The cookbook offers instructions for making dishes using game, various types of sausage, and many kinds of fish, including pike, eel, and crayfish. Sweet dishes include marzipan, ginger bread, and desserts made from almond, apple, pear, rum and dates. Also included are notes on the preparation of various waters. A charming watercolor in the Biedermeier style at the beginning of the cookbook depicts an elegantly dressed couple facing each other.
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, and Biological Research in Republican China, 1918-1937,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46, no. 2 (April 2016): 154–206, and (with Hallam Stevens) “Chinese Biotech versus International Ethics? Accounting for the China-America CRISPR Ethical Divide,” BioSocieties 10 (December 2015): 483-488.
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. The OAH Lerner-Scott Prize is given annually for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history.
Congratulations to Chris Heaney (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow). In summer 2016, Chris will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American History at Penn State University, as well as Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.
