News and Notes
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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 -
The Consortium Welcomes New Member Institutions!
October 2, 2015
We welcome today five new member institutions. The Consortium, which was founded by 11 Philadelphia institutions in 2007, now has 24 members from across the United States and Canada.
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2015-2016 Working Groups
September 22, 2015
The Consortium invites scholars to participate in topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of works-in-progress and important publications.
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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