Fellowships
2024 to 2025
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Matteo Bortolini
University of Padova, Italy
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
The Effective Look of Things: A Two-Tier Biography of Clifford Geertz
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Kristy Bowers
University of Missouri
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Ordinary or Dangerous Pestilence? Defining New Diseases in Early Modern Spain
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Emma Broder
Harvard University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America
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Tad Brown
University of Cambridge
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Fats from Seed: Chemistry, Peanut Breeding, and Food Science
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Lydia Crafts
Manhattan College
2024 to 2025 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
“Little Empire”: Medicine, Public Health and Human Experimentation in 20th Century Central America
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Charles Davidson
University of Florida
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Battlefields of Mind and Matter: Psychological Warfare and the Cold War Struggle for the Body, Mind, and Soul in Guatemala
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Anna Doel
Independent Scholar
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Friends in Odd Places: U.S.-Soviet Scientific Contacts during the Cold War
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Salem Elzway
University of Southern California, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Race Against the Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in Postwar America
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Alfredo Escudero
Florida International University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
The Land is the Laboratory: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Colonial Andes
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Sam Franz
University of Pennsylvania
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
From Computing Centers to Computer Science: The Political Economy of US Universities and the Rise of Computing, 1930-1990
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Adriana Fraser
University of Pennsylvania
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Making Danger: biological weapons research, biosafety, and the management of microbial life, 1940-1990
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Cory Gatrall
Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at UMass Amherst
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Race, Racism, and Reproduction in Public Health Nursing, 1900-1940
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Robert Hancock
University of Victoria
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Indigenous Anthropologists and the Emergence of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the 1960s and 1970s
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William Krause
Vanderbilt University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
"Scientific Genius: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Idea in Modern America, 1880-1990"
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Jingwen Li
Princeton University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
A Phantom History of Phantom Ocular Impairment (1830-1930)
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Jonathan MacDonald
Brown University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Expert Advice: Mediating Social Science’s Public Aspirations, 1930-1965
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Elizabeth Maher
University of Illinois at Chicago
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Building Mechanical Boys: What Autism History Tells us about Constructions of Race, Disability, Gender and Class in the Mid-20th Century United States
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Samantha Muka
Stevens Institute of Technology
2024 to 2025 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Conservation and Marine Pollution in the New York Bight, 1960-present
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Samm Newton
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2024 to 2025 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Expert Enclosure
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Nidia Olvera Hernández
Radboud University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Traditional Uses of Mexican Psychoactive Plants. From the Creation of a National Pharmacopeia to Ethnographical Collections 1900-1957
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Yovanna Pineda
University of Central Florida
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Spectacular Bodies: Aesthetics of Labor & Technology in Argentina, 20th Century
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Magnus Schaefer
McGill University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
The Early Digital: From Statistical Prediction to Digital Signal Processing, 1951–1969
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Tanya Sheehan
Colby College
2024 to 2025 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art
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Jeannie Shinozuka
Washington State University
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Model Minority Intelligence: Race, Education, & Citizenship, 1910-1965
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Alistair Sponsel
2024 to 2025 Emanuel Fellow
Documenting traditional knowledge of coral reefs in the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago
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Katherine White
University of California, San Diego Department of History, Science Studies Program
2024 to 2025 Research Fellow
Anatomy and the Search for Natural Man
2023 to 2024
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Evan Bonney
Centre for History (CHSP), Sciences Po
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Forests and Power in the United States Empire, 1891-1914
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Peter Braden
Ph.D., Department of History, University of California-San Diego
2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow
Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and the Making of the Life Sciences in China, 1940-1980
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Lu Chen
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Alternative Road to Alma-Ata: Social Medicine and Socialist Medicine Roots of Primary Health Care from the Third World
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Laura Clerx
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Boston College
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850
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Al Coppola
John Jay College, CUNY
2023 to 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
Enlightenment Visibilities
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Julia Cummiskey
Department of History, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Selling Wellness: Marketing Materials, Behaviors, and Services for Improved Health in Modern Africa
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Warren Dennis
PhD candidate in History, Boston University
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
"Politically Inspired Scarcity": Energy and Masculinity in the Post-OAPEC Era
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Isabela Dornelas
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Follow the Thread: a comparative history of absorbable materials in suture
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Suvendu Ghatak
Department of English, University of Florida
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Malaria and the Political Ecology of Development in Twentieth-century South Asia
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Minseok Jang
University at Albany, State University of New York
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911
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Heewon Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Coding Actions, Making Faces: Understanding the Human Through Faces 1960 – 2000
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Shirley Kinney
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Untangling the Manuscripts and Medicine of the Pseudo-Apuleius Group
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Alexei Kojevnikov
Department of History, University of British Columbia
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Knabenphysik: Cultural Crises, Postdoctoral Revolt, and Social Contexts of the Quantum Revolution
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Oliver Lazarus
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life
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Jamie Marsella
PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
"The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930
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Catherine Mas
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida International University
2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Sweet Captivity: A Transnational History of Primatology and Culture
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Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Assistant Professor, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Chasing the Magic Bullet: This History and Consequences of Vaccine Research
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Derek Nelson
Ph.D., Department of History, University of New Hampshire
2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow
Reexamining Historical Introductions of Marine Wood-Boring Species from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology
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Donald L. Opitz
Associate Professor, DePaul University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)
2023 to 2024 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920
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Bican Polat
Humanities, New York University Shanghai
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Adjustment, Mental Hygiene, and Child Study: The Advent of the Personality and Culture Perspective in American Social Science
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Jennifer Reiss
PhD candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
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Chelsea Schields
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Charged Currents: Electric Power in the Caribbean
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Y. L. Lucy Wang
PhD candidate in Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894-1949
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Jiemin Tina Wei
PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950
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Angela Xia
PhD candidate in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
The Rest of Life: Hospice, Aging, and the Expansion of Palliative Care in America, 1971-2000
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Che Yeun
PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University
2023 to 2024 Research Fellow
The Finishing Touch: Cleaning and Feeling Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970
2022 to 2023
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Derek Baron
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America
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Barrie Blatchford
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Unnatural Selection: Animal Acclimatization, Nation-Building, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1865-1970
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Camilla Cannon
Ph.D. Student, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Standard: The Institutionalization of Transgender Medicine
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Leo Chu
Ph.D. Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Harvesting Diversity: Ecology, Agriculture, and the Remaking of Development, 1970-2010
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Nayanika Ghosh
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University
2022 to 2023 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science
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F. Eliza Glaze
Professor, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University
2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Medicine in the Making: Reading Hippocrates and Galen in Early Salerno and Monte Cassino
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Benjamin Goossen
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness
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Anthony Greco
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Engineering Egypt: Science, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Empire
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Holly Gruntner
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William & Mary
2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow
Fertile Ground: Kitchen Gardens and Knowledge Production in Early America
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Hiro Hirai
Research Associate, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University
2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Science and Medicine
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Rana Hogarth
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenic Race-Crossing Studies and the Legacies of Slavery
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Zsuzsanna Ihar
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Arming the Field: The Deployment of Agricultural Science in the Context of War and in its Aftermath (1990-2020)
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Bethany Johnson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina
2022 to 2023 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922
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Adam Johnson
Ph.D., Department of History, University of Michigan
2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest
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Judith Kaplan
Ph.D., National Science Foundation Research Scholar
2022 to 2023 Fellow in Residence
Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research
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Julia Marino
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Postindustrial Crusade for Technological and Economic Competitiveness
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Margaret Maurer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow
Everyday Alchemy
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Julia Menzel
Ph.D. Candidate, Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Enigmatic Nature: Absent Laws and Hidden Objects in Theoretical Physics, 1967-2004
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Sarah Naramore
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwest Missouri State University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930
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Matthew Newsom Kerr
Associate Professor, Department of History, Santa Clara University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Re-Visualizing Vaccination: The British and American “Anti-Anti-Vaccinationist” Movement, 1890-1914.
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Udodiri Okwandu
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Transgressive Motherhood: Diagnostic Privilege, Race, and Maternal Mental Illness in American Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, 1890 - 1970
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Marianne Quijano
Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Florida
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
A Primordial Whiteness: Science, Religion, and Race in Twentieth-Century Panama
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Nicole Rehnberg
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
White Roots, Redwoods: Racializing Conservation in Germany and the US, 1920-1945
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Boyd Ruamcharoen
Ph.D. Candidate, Programn in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Tropical Preservation: Media Technologies and American Power in the Postcolonial Tropics
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Claire Sabel
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Rare Earth: Gemstones Geohistories and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe c. 1600-1750
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Sam Schirvar
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Manufacturing Self-Determination: Cold War Electronics in Tribal Development, Black Empowerment, and Prison Industry
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Aimee Slaughter
Ph.D., Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota
2022 to 2023 Emanuel Fellow
Making Atomic History in New Mexico
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Matthew Soleiman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
The Person in Pain: A Genealogy of Bodily Experience, 1906-1999
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Hannah Srajer
Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Yale University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
The Torture Cure: Behavior Modification and Rehabilitative Logics in the American Carceral State, 1960-1990
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Gina Surita
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970
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Chang Xu
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
2022 to 2023 Research Fellow
Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and Qing Empire, 1640-1800
2021 to 2022
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Charis Boke
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College
2021 to 2022 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
A Dose of Herbalism: Evidence and Efficacy in North American Medical History
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Richard Del Rio
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Behavioral Science and Social Medicine, Florida State University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Dope Town: The Drug Markets of Chicago, 1850-1940
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Jennifer Eaglin
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Going Nuclear: The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry
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Martha Espinosa
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Duke University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
The Science of Family Planning: Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge
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Paul Forman
Curator Emeritus, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence
An Empirico-Critical Examination of “Vienna Indeterminism”
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Michelle Frank
M.A. Student, Biography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
The Daughter Particle: Chien-Shiung Wu and Twentieth Century Physics
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Jean Franzino
Postdoctoral Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Dis-Union: Disability, Narrative, and the American Civil War
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Ryan Hearty
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
The Pollution Experts: Water and Environmental Engineering in the United States, 1948 to 1990
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Kelsey Henry
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Developmental Humanisms: Black Histories of Developmental Science and Biomedicine in the Twentieth-Century U.S.
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Matthew Hoffarth
Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence
The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019
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Melanie Kiechle
Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Desensitizing Health
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Hannah LeBlanc
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Nutrition for National Defense: US Food Science in World War II and the Cold War
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Mia Levenson
Ph.D. Student, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Tufts University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Eugenics and the Politics of Scientific Performance
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Jess Libow
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Emory University
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Marcelo Lima Loreto
Ph.D., History of Science and Technology and Epistemology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Brazilian Genetics and Politics during the Cold War (1940-1950s)
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Katherine McLeod
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence
How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology
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Sara Meloni
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Radical Science Collectives between Italy and the US in the Long 1960s
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Emily Merchant
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Molecular Eugenics
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Kate Mulry
Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Bakersfield
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
“‘it nourisheth the Child in the Womb’: Chocolate, Reproduction, and Colonization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica”
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Nic John Ramos
Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, Drexel University
2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Policing Health: Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986
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Jesse Ritner
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
'White Gold': Weather, Technology, and the Rise of the North American Ski Industry, 1900-Present
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Lauren Ruhrold
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
No Standard Definition: The Medical Device Industry and Its Social and Cultural History
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Leah Samples
Ph.D. Candidate, History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow
Visual Citizenry: The State, Technology, and Blindness in New Deal America and Beyond
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Henry Schmidt
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Social Scientists, Industrial Evolution, and the Study of Artefacts in Progressive Era America
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Heather Vrana
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida
2021 to 2022 Research Fellow
Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America, 1954-1996
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Patrick Walsh
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence
Raised from the Living: Making Therapy from Biology, 1880s-1940s
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Nicole Welk-Joerger
High Meadows Environmental Institute Fellow, Princeton University
2021 to 2022 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
Rumen Nation: An Environmental History of the United States
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Madeline Williams
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow
Challenging the Ableist State: Blind Organizing Through Technology and Welfare in the Era of the American Eugenics Movement, 1865-1940
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Matthew Wisnioski
Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech
2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of Science Education
2020 to 2021
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Maria Paula Andrade Diniz de Araujo
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
The State of the Poor: State Building and Public Health in Modern Brazil, 1834-1920
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Eve Buckley
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Hunger Politics during the Early Cold War: Intellectuals from the Global South Contest the Overpopulation Paradigm, 1948-1973
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Sally Chengji Xing
Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, Columbia University
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
“Pacific Crossings”: Paul Monroe, John Dewey and the Architecture of Modern Chinese Scientific Research and Education, 1913-1949
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Kerri Clement
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Wonderland’s Festering Wound: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, and Brucellosis in Twentieth-Century Yellowstone and Montana Borderlands
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Matthew Foreman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Science and Security: Constructing the Modern Chinese Citizen, 1900-1966
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Betsy Frederick-Rothwell
Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Internal Economies: Air Conditioning, Industrial Environments, and Working Bodies, 1890-1940
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Hongdeng Gao
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow
Migration, Medicine and Power: How Chinese New Yorkers Gained Better Access to Health Care, 1949-1999
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Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Avocado Landscapes: The Rise and Expansion of the U.S.-Mexico Avocado Industry, 1910-2000
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Matthew Hoffarth
Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2020 to 2021 Fellow in Residence
The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019
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Judith Kaplan
Ph.D., Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Body
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David Korostyshevsky
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Disciplining the Drunkard: The Medico-Legal History of Habitual Drunkenness in Nineteenth-Century America
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Justin Linds
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, New York University
2020 to 2021 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Rot Before Microbes: Creating Knowledge and Value in the Early Modern Atlantic
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Michael McGovern
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Princeton University
2020 to 2021 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
Just in Numbers? Statistics and Civil Rights in Postwar America
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Katherine McLeod
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow
How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology
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Joris Mercelis
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
The Long Shadow of Kodak: Corporate Knowledge Empires and the Internationalization of Science
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Hillary Nunn
Professor, Department of English, University of Akron
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Domestic Medicine on the Move: Household Mobility and Early Modern Recipe Collections
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Claire Oliver
Ph.D. Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Everywhere at Once: Meteorology, Communications, and the Construction of Global Climate, 1865-1900
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Kelly O`Donnell
Ph.D., Department of History, Yale University
2020 to 2021 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Hippocratic Vows: How the Doctor's Wife Transformed American Medicine
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Alexander Parry
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Risky Homes: Domestic Accidents from the Progressive Era to the Consumer Movement
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James Rick
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William and Mary
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Cultivating Machines: Capitalism and Technology in Midwestern Agriculture, 1830-1900
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Tillmann Taape
Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambrdige
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Distillation: Craft Knowledge, Medicine, and Chemistry in Early Modern Europe
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Rachel Walker
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hartford
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America
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Arnaud Zimmern
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
2020 to 2021 Research Fellow
Touching Kings, Drinking Gold: Crises of Sovereignty in Jacobean Medicine
2019 to 2020
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Ellen Abrams
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Making Mathematics American: Representation, Labor, and Engagement during the Growth of American Mathematics, 1894-1945
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Hannah Anderson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America
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Ekaterina Babintseva
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence
Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age
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Howard Chiang
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Translators of the Soul: From the First Chinese Psychoanalyst to the Rise of Transcultural Psychiatry
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Marcos Cueto
Professor, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
A History of Global AIDS and Health Activism in Brazil
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Ryan Dahn
Ph.D., Department of Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago
2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence
Nazi Entanglement: Pascual Jordan, Quantum Mechanics, and the Legacy of the Third Reich
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Menglu Gao
Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literary Studies and English, Northwestern University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
The Lacquered Chinese Box: Opium, Addiction, and the Fantasy of Empire in Nineteenth-century British Literature
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Kit Heintzman
Lecturer, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Medicine Unbridled: Veterinarians and Multispecies Statecraft, 1750-1815
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Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Medieval Studies, Brown University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
The Cure Gone Awry: Gender, Dis/ability, and the Ailing Empire in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Johanna Hood
Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Vital Fluid: Evolving Social, Moral and Economic Values of Blood and Cadavers in China
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Lawrence Kessler
Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence
Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi
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Charles Kollmer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbes, Microbiologists, and the Chemical Order of Nature
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Christa Kuljian
Research Associate, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Persistent Biological Myths: Fifty Years of Creating a Feminist Approach to Science and Technology Studies (STS), 1969-2019
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Xiao Li
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Southern Illinois University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
"A New Woman”: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in the U.S. and China, 1864-1934
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Diana Louis
Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the 19th Century
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Zachary Mann
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Literature and Media Studies, University of Southern California
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Computing History
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Patrícia Martins Marcos
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Political Medicine: Science Sovereignty and the Government of Imperial Bodies in the Portuguese Atlantic (1715-1818)
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Cristina Nigro
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow
The Active Brain - A History of the Electrophysiological and Molecular Study of Cognition in the 20th Century
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Megan Piorko
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Georgia State University
2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow
Chymical Collections: Seventeenth-Century Textual Transmutations in the Work of Arthur Dee and Elias Ashmole
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Aditya Ramesh
Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Vital Cities: Public Health, Non-Human Life and Infrastructure in South Asian Cities, 1890-1970
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Katherine Reinhart
Ph.D., History of Art, University of Cambridge
2019 to 2020 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV’s France
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Alexis Rider
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
A Melting Fossil: Ice, Life, and Time in the Cryosphere, 1840-1970
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Emma Schroeder
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maine
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Women's Transnational Technological Activism and the Origins of Ecological Domesticity, 1960-1989
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Dorin Smith
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Brown University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel
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Justin Tackett
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of English, Stanford University
2019 to 2020 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
Poetry and Sound Technology, 1816-1914; Hardy and Radio; Poetics and the Prehistory of Silent Film, c.1880-c.1930
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Rebecca Woods
Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
2019 to 2020 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Body of Animal, Body of Evidence: Paleolithic Remains and the History of Science
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Sarah Xia Yu
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Healthy and Hygienic Publics in Republican China, 1912--1949
2018 to 2019
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Elaine Ayers
Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science, Princeton University
2018 to 2019 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics
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Ekaterina Babintseva
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow
Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age
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Edward Barnet
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Stanford University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Homo Musicus: The Early Modern Musical Science of the Human Being
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Jaime Benchimol
Senior Researcher, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective.
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Geoff Bil
Ph.D. New York Botanical Gardens
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century
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Scottie Hale Buehler
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects
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Chelsea Chamberlain
Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Diagnostic Clinics and the Problem of Human Defect in Progressive America
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Benjamin Cohen
Associate Professor, Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies, Layfayette College
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
The Future of Agriculture: A Technological History
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Jessica Dandona
Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1914
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Theodora Dryer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence
Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961
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Alexandra Fair
M.A. Candidate, Department of History, Miami University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Eugenic Expectations: How the Medical Economy Changed and Sustained Eugenic Ideology in Post-WWII America
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Ellery Foutch
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Middlebury College
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
The Artists' Models: Natural History Specimens and their Illustrations
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Stephen Hausmann
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1850-1992
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Ashley Inglehart
Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University
2018 to 2019 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries
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Jordan Katz
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow
Jewish Midwives, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800
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Lawrence Kessler
Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence
Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi
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Paul Mitchell
Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
2018 to 2019 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Human Remainders: the Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection
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Vivek Neelakantan
Ph.D.
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Southeast Asia and the Beginnings of the Primary Health Paradigm, 1948-1978
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Ayah B Nuriddin
Ph.D Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow
Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles, 1890-1970
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Lisa Ruth Rand
Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence
Space Junk: An Environmental History of Waste in Orbit
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Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Elusive Evidence, Enduring Fluidity: Historical Trajectories of the “Mongolian Spot”as a Marker of Race
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Neeraja Sankaran
Ph.D.
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
A Longue-Durée Microhistory of RSV at the Rockefeller: The Institutional Life of an In-House Discovery.
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Michelle Smiley
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr
2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence
Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium
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Sean M Smith
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rice University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglo-Atlantic
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Alana L Staiti
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995
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Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes
Professor for the History of Science, Department of History, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
The Genetics of the Brazilian Northeastern Population, 1950-1980: Heredity, Race and Culture
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Laurel J Waycott
Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Patterns of Creation: Organic Form in the Science of Life, 1880-1930
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Kazuki Yamada
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Exeter and University of Queensland
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow
Later Life Sexuality and its Genealogies of Knowledge: The Sciences of Sex and Ageing, c. 1870 – 1980.
2017 to 2018
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Kevin Baker
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow
World Processors: Computer Modeling, Global Environmentalism, and the Birth of Sustainable Development
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Joanna Behrman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Higher Education in Physics
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Nicole Belolan
Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861
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Paul Braff
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Enthroning Health: The National Negro Health Movement and the Fight to Control Public Health Policy in the African American Community, 1915-1950
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Theodora Dryer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow
Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961
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Kathrinne Duffy
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Brown University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Antebellum America
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Kate Grauvogel
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones and Blood Clots, 1784 -1963
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Martha Groppo
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939
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Nabeel Hamid
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy
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Alma Igra
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941
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Jonathan Jones
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Binghamton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath
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Lawrence Kessler
Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Planter's Paradise: Environment, Empire, and the Making of Hawaiʻi's Sugarcane Plantation System
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Joseph Martin
National Science Foundation Research Scholar
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University
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Emelin Miller
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Empire of Ice: Arctic Natural History and British Visions of Nature, 1650-1800
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Timothy Minella
Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century
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Taylor Moore
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semicolonial Upper Egypt (1875-1960)
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Lauren Rosati
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
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Michael Sappol
Ph.D., Research Fellow, Uppsala University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, showmanship & the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950
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Aprajita Sarcar
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Queen’s University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
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Adam Shapiro
National Science Foundation Research Scholar
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
An Unfit Darwinist: Disability, Slander and America's First Evolution Trial
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Michelle Smiley
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium
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Daniel Vandersommers
Ph.D., Department of History, The Ohio State University
2017 to 2018 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917
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Yuan Yi
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow
Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Textile Factories in Early Twentieth-Century China
2016 to 2017
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Leah Aronowsky
Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Configuring "Life" in the Biosphere, 1950-2000
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George Aumoithe
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965-2000
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Sarah Basham
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of British Columbia
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow
Rethinking the Ontology of Chinese Encyclopedias: The Life and Times of Treatise on Military Preparedness (1621)
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AJ Blandford
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys
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Nicholas Bonneau
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Notre Dame
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Unspeakable Loss, Distempered Awakenings: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765
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Melissa Charenko
Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
"The Science of Prophecy"? The Role of the Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916-2015
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Rosanna Dent
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence
Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015
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Betsy Frederick-Rothwell
Ph.D. Student School of Architecture University of Texas, Austin
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Inside Out: Office Buildings and the Hybrid Nature of Space, 1870-1930
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Louis Gerdelan
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Calamitous knowledge: understanding disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic worlds, 1666-1755
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Lawrence Kessler
Ph.D. Department of History Temple University
2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence
Planter’s Paradise: Nature and Culture on Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
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Alison Laurence
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
An Unnatural History of Deep Time: Extinct Animals and the Politics of Place in the Modern United States
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Julia Mansfield
Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University
2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence
The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805
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Joseph Martin
National Science Foundation Research Scholar
2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence
Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University
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Christine Peralta
Ph.D. Student Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Labor Pains: Working Class Women's Access to Healthcare in the Philippines, 1898-1950
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Alicia Puglionesi
Ph.D. History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Johns Hopkins University
2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
The Astonishment of Experience: Americans and Psychical Research, 1885-1935
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Tricia Ross
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Duke University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany
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Michelle Smiley
Ph.D. Student History of Art Bryn Mawr
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow
Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium
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Angela Smith
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History Austin Community College Ph.D., History University of Texas, Austin
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
The Romantic Roots of Evolution in Scotland
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Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar
Ph.D. Student Department of History, El Colegio de México
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Miners, Oilmen and Chemists: Globalization and Technology in Mexican Sulphur Industry (1933-1972)
2015 to 2016
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David Ceccarelli
Ph.D. Candidate Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences University of Rome Tor Vergata
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Between Cope and Osborn: the Role of the American Biological Discourse on the Public Debate on Evolution
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Wendy Gonaver
Ph.D. American Studies Program College of William and Mary
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
The Peculiar Institution: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry
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Phillip Honenberger
Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University
2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence
The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages
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Lawrence Kessler
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow
Planter’s Paradise: Agriculture, Ecology, and Science in Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations, 1778-1920
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Tamara Kneese
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains
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Tess Lanzarotta
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska
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Jongmin Lee
Lecturer Engineering and Society University of Virginia
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Rayon: Poisoned History of Empowerment
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Shana Lopes
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History Rutgers University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
“The Fraternity throughout the World”: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890
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Joseph Malherek
Department of American Studies George Washington University
2015 to 2016 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America
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Julia Mansfield
Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University
2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence
The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805
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Alexander Moffett
Ph.D. Candidate CHSS / Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
The Circulation of Medical Knowledge: Collective Investigation, 1860-1920
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Lisa Ruth Rand
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow
Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985
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Miriam Rich
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science Harvard University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Race and Defective Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Science, Medicine, and Law
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James Risk
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of South Carolina
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce, and the State in American Seaports, 1790 - 1860
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Carolyn Roberts
Ph.D. Candidate African and African American Studies Harvard University
2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow
Surgeon, Fetish Woman, Apothecary, Slave: The Medical Culture, Labor, and Economy of the British Slave Trade, 1680-1807
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Whitney Robles
Ph.D. Candidate American Studies Harvard University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815
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Maxwell Rogoski
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Surface and Self: Science and the Social Economy of Skin in the Twentieth Century
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Sarah Sussman
Ph.D. Candidate Department of English University of Texas at Austin
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940
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Dora Vargha
Postdoctoral Research Associate Birbeck College, University of London
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Road to Eradication: Global Polio Vaccine Testing in the Cold War
2014 to 2015
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Nicole Belolan
University of Delaware
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861
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Amanda Casper
University of Delaware
2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow
Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925
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Cara Fallon
Harvard University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
One Hundred Years of Health: Changing Expectations for Aging Well in 20th Century America
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Abraham Gibson
Ph.D., Department of History Florida State University
2014 to 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow
In Search of the Social Impulse: Science and Conciliation during the Interwar Years, 1919-1939
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Abigail Glogower
University of Rochester
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Lives of the Copyists: Replicating Subjects in Antebellum American Print Culture 1820-1860
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Heidi Hausse
Princeton University
2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow
Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany
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Phillip Honenberger
Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University
2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence
The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages
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Julia Mansfield
Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University
2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence
The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805
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Jonson Miller
Associate Teaching Professor Drexel University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South: The Southern Military Schools and the Foundation of the New South
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Sarah Naramore
University of Notre Dame
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
The Last Great System: Benjamin Rush's Physiological Worldview
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Elizabeth Searcy
Brown University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
The Unconscious Mind in America, 1880-1917
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Jeannie Shinozuka
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Biotic Borderlands: Constituting Race in Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1945
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Roberto Chauca Tapia
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida
2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow
Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia
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Christopher Willoughby
Tulane University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Treating the Black Body: Race and Medicine in American Culture, 1800-1861
2013 to 2014
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Kathleen Brian
Ph.D. Candidate Department of American Studies George Washington University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Morbid Propensities: Suicide, Sympathy, and the Making of the Eugenic Public, 1843-1903
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Sarah Chesney
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary
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
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Erin Corrales-Diaz
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915
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Elisabeth Berry Drago
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History University of Delaware
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science and Practice
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Emily Handlin
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Art and Architecture Brown University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia
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Kathryn Irving
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
The American Idiot Schools: Disability and Segregation in the Nineteenth Century
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Jason Kauffman
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Terra Desconhecida: Nature, Knowledge, and Society in the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil and Bolivia
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Joel Klein
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Chymistry, Corpuscularism, and Controversy: The Ideas and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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Jessica Linker
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Connecticut
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
"It is My Wish to Behold Ladies among my Hearers": Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860
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Julia Mansfield
Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University
2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow
The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805
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Teasel Muir-Harmony
Ph.D. Candidate History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow
The Space Race and American Public Diplomacy
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Rebecca Onion
Ph.D. Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin
2013 to 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow
Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s
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Donald Opitz
Associate Professor School for New Learning DePaul University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Cross-Atlantic Fertilizations: Women’s Horticultural Education at Ambler, Pennsylvania
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James Poskett
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Printing skulls: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
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Kristen Ann Woytonik
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of New Hampshire
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
A Healthy Independence: The Politics, Science, and Business of Healthcare in Early Republic Philadelphia
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Brandon Zimmerman
Independent Scholar
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
An Empire of Skulls: The History of The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection and Scientific Collecting Practices in 19th Century Philadelphia.
2012 to 2013
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Jeremy Blatter
Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Film and Visual Studies Harvard University
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920
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Catherine Bonier
Ph.D. Candidate Architecture Department University of Pennsylvania
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium
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Jeffrey Brideau
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Maryland
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow
A Bond Rather than a Barrier: Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway, An Environmental History
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Tisha Hooks
Ph.D. Candidate Department of African American Studies Yale University
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination
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Laura Igoe
Ph.D. Candidate Tyler School of Art Temple University
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia
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Lijing Jiang
Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Arizona State University
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century
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Katrina Jirik
Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
American Institutions for the Feeble-minded from 1875 to 1920: a Reinterpretation
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Emily Merchant
University of Michigan
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century
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Rebecca Onion
Ph.D., Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin
2012 to 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow
Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s
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Douglas O’Reagan
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War
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Ann Robinson
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow
Creating a Symbol of Science: The Standard Periodic Table of the Elements
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Aimee Slaughter
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939
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Simon Thode
Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology The Johns Hopkins University
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820
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Jenna Tonn
Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University
2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Show-Room and the Workshop: The Laboratory within the Natural History Museum and the Development of American Biology, 1850 – 1935
2011 to 2012
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Katherine Arner
Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Johns Hopkins University
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Shaped by Fever, Commerce and War: American Medicine and Public Health in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions
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Amanda Bevers
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, San Diego
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Making Museums of Medical History
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Susan Brandt
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
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Benjamin Breen
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas, Austin
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Tropics and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1760
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Meghan Crnic
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930
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Claire Gherini
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Johns Hopkins University
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of British Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800.
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Christopher Heaney
Ph.D. Candidate (Harrington Doctoral Fellow) Department of History University of Texas at Austin
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948
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Kurt MacMillan
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Irvine
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow
Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965
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Joseph Martin
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow
Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993
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Funke Sangodeyi
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1990s
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Aelwen Wetherby
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Department of History University of Oxford
2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949
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Matthew White
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow
Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855 - 1900
2010 to 2011
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Kuang-chi Hung
Ph.D. Candidate History of Science Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow
Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America
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Andrew McGee
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Virginia
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow
Mainframing America: Computers, Systems, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy and Society, 1940-1985
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Rebecca Miller
Ph.D. Candidate Graduate School of Education Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow
Crafting the Two Cultures: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970
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Joanna Radin
Ph.D. Candidate History & Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow
Life on Ice: Frozen Blood, Human History, and Biodiversity in a Genomic Age
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Madhumita Saha
Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Technology Iowa State University
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow
State Policy, Agricultural Research and Transformation of Indian Agriculture, With Special Reference to Basic Food Crops, 1947-1985
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Paul Shin
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University; Ph.D. Candidate Department of Medicine University of Rochester
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow
Insensible Souls: Mesmerism, Science, and the American Imagination, 1837-1860
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Cameron Strang
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas at Austin
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow
Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763-1840
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Dora Vargha
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University
2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow
Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: The International Governance of Polio in the Cold War from a Hungarian Perspective
2009 to 2010
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Carin Berkowitz
Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow
Making British Medicine: Practice and Pedagogy in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Andrew Berns
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Pennsylvania
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy
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Nicholas Best
Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science
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Nicholas Blanchard
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
Domestication: The Culture of a Science in the 20th Century
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Kara B. Clevinger
Ph.D. Candidate Department of English Temple University
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
Isolating Liberty: The Home, the Prison, and the Asylum in Antebellum Literature
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Ellery Foutch
Ph.D. Candidate History of Art University of Pennsylvania
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale's Butterflies, Heade's Hummingbirds, Blaschka's Flowers, and Sandow's Body
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Anna Geltzer
Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow
Epistemology in Flux: Changing Conceptions of What Counts as Clinical Evidence in 20th and 21st Century Russia
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Abigail Schade
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University
2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
Traditional Qanat Irrigation Technologies in Arid Environments: A Global Environmental History, with Evidence from Iran, the Western Desert of Egypt, and the Balearic Islands of Spain
2008 to 2009
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Karin Ekholm
Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Department Indiana University
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow
Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries
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Christopher Jones
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow
Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930
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Tina Kibbe
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History SUNY Buffalo
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow
Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950
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Matthew Laubacher
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Arizona State University
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow
Assessing the Role of European Thought: The Culture of Collecting in 19th-Century American Natural History
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Nicholas Spicher
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science and Technology Johns Hopkins University
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow
A Study of the 18th-Century Use and Growth of Scientific Demonstrations in the Context of University Instruction
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Theodore Varno
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow
The Nature of Tomorrow: Inbreeding in Practice and Theory in the Anglo-American Context, 1860-1950
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Damon Yarnell
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow
Motor City: Ford, Mass Production and the Industrial Ecology of Detroit, 1908-1927
2007 to 2008
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Sarah Bridger
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University
2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991
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Terry M. Christensen
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University
2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
John Archibald Wheeler: A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of 20th Century Physics
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Melissa J. Grafe
Ph.D. Candidate Institute of the History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
‘To attendance and medicine’: Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820
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Eric S. Hintz
Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950
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Miranda Paton
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University
2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Mary Elizabeth Zundo
Ph.D. Candidate School of Fine and Applied Arts University of Illinois
2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier
Fellows' Updates
Ben has been appointed Assistant Professor of Environmental History and Conflict Resolution in the Department of History and Art History at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University.
Chelsea has been appointed Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Irvine.
Christa presented this year's Annual Steve Biko Bioethics lecture titled: Scientific Racism: Histories, Legacies, and Ethics.
Derek completed his dissertation and has taken a position as Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers.
Dan's first monograph, Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive is now available from University of Kansas Press.
Patrick has published an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education (registration required).
Chris has published Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology with Oxford University Press.
Michelle published an article about Chien-Shiung Wu in the April issue of Scientific American.
Charis has been appointed Lecturer at Dartmouth College.
Megan has accepted a position as Distinctive Collections Librarian at Falvey Memorial Library, Vilanova University, where she will be cataloging new acquisitions and designing special collections exhibits.
Marcos published with Gabriel Lopes, "Braiding Public Health and Human Rights: AIDS, Activism, and International Agencies in Brazil, 1987–1996" Latin American Research Review (2022), 1–17 doi:10.1017/lar.2022.99. Published online: 02 November 2022
The article is available through open access at https://www.doi.org/10.1017/lar.2022.99
Jessica received M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources, from the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, VA.
Jessica also has several forthcoming publications:
"The Fetus in the Museum: Personhood, Pregnancy, and Anatomical Preparations, 1850–1900," in Death in Visual Culture, special journal issue (for Mortality), ed. Jessica Orzulak and Kaylee Alexander (forthcoming 2022).
"Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1880–1900," in The Coming of Age of the Public Fetus: Exploring Pregnant and Fetal Bodies in Visual Culture, ed. Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich (Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, forthcoming 2022).
"Skeletons in the Drawing Room: Popular Consumption of Flap Anatomies, 1880–1900," in Myth and Misinformation: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture, ed. Helen Williams, Allan Ingram, and Clark Lawlor (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2022).
"‘The Lady Anatomist’: Fragmented Bodies, Photographic Assemblage, and the ‘Art’ of Dissection at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1895–98," in Making Sense of Medicine: Materiality and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge, ed. John Nott and Anna Harris (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, forthcoming 2022).
Jeannie's book, Biotic Borders, has been published with the University of Chicago Press (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo131341992.html).
Biotic Borders charts the co-production of race and species over half a century in the human and more-than-human worlds, focusing on Japanese plant, insect, and human immigrants across the Pacific Ocean. Situating plants and insects as important actors in histories of the United States empire and a hemispheric context enables the recentering of more-than-human worlds that have enriched understandings of transpacific racisms in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, Hawai‘i, and Latin America. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials targeted Japanese plant, insect, and human immigrants for fear of San José scale, chestnut blight, citrus canker, the Oriental termite, the Japanese beetle, and other invasions.
Rachel received the John M. Murrin Prize for the best article published in Early American Studies in 2021 for, “Facing Race: Popular Science and Black Intellectual Thought in Antebellum America,” Early American Studies 19, no. 3 (Summer 2021). Additionally, Rachel's first book—Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America—will be coming out with the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2022. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo182756428.html
Charis has been granted a full scholarship to Middlebury College's prestigious summer language institutes, for Abenaki language study. Charis has also been appointed to the new Inclusion Committee in the Town of Springfield, VT, as part of an effort to bring anthropological and historical training to bear on local planning and governance.
Charis's review of Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-based Medicine has been published in the Medical Antrhopology Quarterly.
Mia has two forthcoming publications:
"Exterminating the Phantom: Nativist Constructions of Contagion and Monsters in Nineteenth-Century New York City" will be published in the anthology Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (eds. Michael Chemers and Analola Santana) in June 2022.
Katherine has been appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University.
Julia has been appointed assistant professor of early North American history at Villanova University.
Xiao has been hired as Digital Humanist for University of California Santa Cruz, to provide digital humanities research, instruction, and web consultation, as well as to supervise digital humanities projects of the humanities division and implement IT solutions to meet academic objectives. Previously, as digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover, Xiao built a robust, interactive and searchable website (https://chinesestudents.
Megan will be an American Trust for the British Library (ATBL) Fellow in partnership with the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance at Johns Hopkins University for the 2022-2023 academic year. Megan has also published several articles:
Piorko, Megan, Marieke Hendriksen, and Simon Werrett. “Introduction: Alchemical Practice: Looking Towards the Chemical Humanities.” Special Issue “Alchemical Practice and the Chemical Humanities,” Ambix 69 no. 1 (2022): 1-18.
Piorko, Megan, Sarah Lang, and Richard Bean. “Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher.” In The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/
Dan's edited volume, with Tracy McDonald, Zoo Studies: A New Humanities won the Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" award for the "Flora and Fauna" category in January 2021. He also published "The Sectionalism of the National Zoo: Animals, Language, Politics, Laughter" in Animal Histories of the Civil War Era, ed. Earl J. Hess (Louisiana State University Press, 2022).
Alicia has published a new book, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner, 2022). In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Alicia has also published an article, “'Pajamas from Spirit Land': Searching for William James," in Public Domain Review.
The Organization of American Historians awarded Emily Merchant the 2022 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, which is given annually for the best book in American intellectual history. Merchant’s book, Building the Population Bomb (Oxford University Press), is a concise and memorable volume exploring the history of population science in its sociopolitical, economic, ideological, and ethical dimensions offering a comprehensive interrogation of the data and assumptions at the heart of twentieth-century demographic work, which fueled popular concerns about overpopulation.
Joe's book, Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968 is to be released later this year.
James recently published a new book, Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science. Horizons recasts the history of science, uncovering the vital contributions that scientists in Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific have made to this global story.
The Consortium offers multiple fellowship opportunities each year for scholars in the history of science, technology or medicine:
- Due December 15
- Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars
- Four-month NEH Fellowships
- Nine-month NEH Fellowships
- Research Fellowships
- Due April 15
- Research Fellowships
NEH Fellows have offices in the Consortium’s facility in Center City Philadelphia and have ready access to events and activities throughout Philadelphia’s vibrant academic and cultural communities. Research Fellows receive funding for reseach travel to Consortium member institutions and participate in Consortium activities online.
Emanuel Fellows are expected to participate in the Consortium online fellows' activities, and are welcome to be in residence at the Consortium but are not required to do so. Emanuel Fellows are not required to conduct research at Consortium collections.
When evaluating applications, the Consortium considers two primary criteria:
- All Fellowships: The potential to make significant contributions to scholarship: The significance of the project with respect to existing literature should be clearly explained.
- NEH and Research Fellowships: The appropriateness of the project to the collections of member institutions: The application form requires listing materials to be accessed in the collections of member institutions. If the requested items are available elsewhere or online, the application should explain why access to physical materials or variants at member institutions is required for the project. The best way to address this criterion is to contact the library and archive staff at the institutions you would like to visit for your research. Successful applications will demonstrate strong familiarity with member collections and make a compelling argument for the importance of those collections to the proposed project.
For further information, see How Fellows Are Selected.
The Consortium’s fellowships may be held sequentially with fellowships offered separately by Consortium member institutions but may not be held concurrently.
For any questions regarding Consortium fellowships, please email info@chstm.org.
Fellowship Opportunities
Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars (Application deadline, December 15)
Emanuel Fellows will be awarded a stipend between $10,000 to $30,000 to be used for research in archives, oral history, or other research methods, travel for research, or time to write up research findings for an article, book, or other scholarly contributions in various formats or media. The stipend can also be used as income and salary support to provide time to conduct scholarship. Applicants must have received a Ph.D. or equivalent degree at least two years before the time of application, and may NOT be in a tenured or tenure track faculty position at a university or college nor enrolled as a student in any program of higher education. Scholars are eligible if they are independent or alternative academic scholars, meaning they have positions that do not have research expectations or offer institutional support for research in their area of expertise. They can be adjunct faculty, lecturers (if there is no research expectation), or unaffiliated with an educational institution. Applicants must be permanent residents or citizens of the United States. The Emanuel Fellowship may not be held concurrently with any position that would violate eligibility for applying as described above.
NEH Fellowships (Application deadline on December 15)
The Consortium’s NEH Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $5,000 ($45,000 for nine months and $20,000 for four months). Fellows are expected to spend their fellowship months at the Consortium facilities in Philadelphia, participate in our events and conduct research at two or more Consortium member institutions. The Consortium’s NEH Fellowships are available to scholars who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Applicants must have a Ph.D., or have completed by the application deadline all requirements for a Ph.D. except for the actual conferral of the degree. Additional funding is available for research travel to the collections of Consortium member institutions.
Research Fellowships (Application deadline on April 15 and December 15)
Research Fellowships are for scholars who would like to conduct research in the collections of two or more Consortium member institutions. Research Fellows will be awarded a stipend of $1,000 plus $750 for use of each collection, $425 if the collection is less than 100 miles from another collection for which a stipend has already been awarded. Fellows typically receive between $2,500 and $5,000 depending on number and locations of collections used.
How to Apply
Late applications will not normally be accepted.
All Fellowships: Applications must include
- an abstract limited to 150 words
- a single PDF file, single-spaced, in Times New Roman font, no smaller than 11 pt type with at least 1” margins:
- Curriculum Vitae, limited to 3 pages
- project description explaining the research project and how it will advance scholarship in the history of science, technology or medicine, limited to 6 pages
- references cited in the project description, limited to 2 pages - contact information for two recognized scholars who will be asked to submit letters of recommendation. We will send instructions to these scholars upon receipt of an application, but applicants should let their recommenders know to have a letter ready for submission. Letters are due 15 days after the application deadline
Emanuel Fellowships: The project description must include
- the amount requested and a description of how the stipend will be used
- the dates during which the fellowship will be undertaken
- a description of the product or outcome of the fellowship
NEH and Research Fellowships: These fellowships require use of at least two Consortium member institutions' collections
- must include the specific collections they wish to use, and are strongly encouraged to determine relevance of collections to their projects before applying by searching online catalogs and contacting librarians and archivists at member institutions. Applicants can search most members collections through a single interface on the Consortium's website.
Please contact info@chstm.org with any questions regarding fellowships.
Other Fellowships at Member Institutions
Some of the Consortium member institutions offer their own fellowships and grants, for research in their collections only; click on the list below for further information about these programs. Note that Consortium fellowships may be held sequentially with fellowships offered separately by our member institutions but may not be held concurrently.
How did lab animals become "sentient drug factories" with significant influence over the history of health and medicine in China? Read about Peter Braden's research examining the multispecies history of science in modern China.
Consortium Fellow Leo Chu examines the tensions between development and sustainability in Taiwan's Green Revolution.
Read about Gina Surita's research into the history of molecular biology and the influence of metaphors of "economy" on our understanding of cellular functions.
Read about Charis Boke's work on plant humanities, medical knowledge and interspecies relationships.
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow Bethany Johnson explores the social legacies of the 1918 influenza epidemic in Philadelphia.
Read about Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow Nicole Welk-Joerger's research into the history of ruminology, and how a niche corner of animal science helped shape agribusiness and the role of beef and cattle in American food culture.
Albert M. Greenfield 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.
An investigation into the Early Modern panacea of potable gold reveals a cultural debate over medical knowledge and progress.
Xiao Li, Southern Illinois University
2019 to 2020 Research Fellow
Vivek Neelakantan, Consortium Research Fellow
2018 to 2019 Research Fellow