Tess Lanzarotta, Yale University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

imageShana Lopes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History of Rutgers University. In 2015-16, she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium. Read more about her research during her fellowship here. Histories of early photography have routinely focused on technological developments in France, England, and the United States, seldom mentioning the geographic area we call “Germany” today.

David Ceccarelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

James Risk, University of South Carolina
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

The Consortium started awarding research fellowships in 2007. Dissertation fellowships were added in 2008, and postdoctoral fellowships in 2012. We have kept applicant statistics beginning in 2011. Those stats are summarized on this page. Applicants' demographics have no influence in the application review process. See How Fellows are Selected for a detailed description of the process.

Through a new collaboration with Temple University, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is proud to announce an online graduate course for educators beginning in 2016: Preserving American Freedom: A Primary Source Approach to Teaching American History.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for the History of Physics is pleased to host a third international conference for graduate students and early career scholars, to be held April 6-10, 2016 in Annapolis, MD.

Congratulations to James Risk, University of South Carolina, who was recently awarded the John A. and Annie Rice Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of South Carolina Department of History. Risk also won a Pam Laird Research Grant from the Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology; a Clyde Ferrell Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship from the University of South Carolina Department of History; and a Richard A. Bacas Scholarship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.

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 Department of History. Merchant completed her PhD in History at the University of Michigan earlier this year.

A Forum that Carin Berkowitz edited and in which she has an article, "Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects," was recently published by the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and featured on Johns Hopkins University Press's blog. Berkowitz was a Dissertation Writing Fellow at the Consortium in 2009-2010, and the Forum was based on a workshop hosted by the Consortium in fall of 2012.

Andrew W. Mellon
Image of Andrew W. Mellon. Mellon, who served as the Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, was a patron of the arts and sciences. Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.