Fellowships

Julia published Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global (Ohio University Press). The book presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936. It analyzes the strategies and conditions that allowed the institute to endure and thrive through successive political and scientific regimes of the interwar period, the postwar period, the transition to independence, the conflicts of the 1970s and 1980s, and the Museveni presidency. Virus Research in Twentieth Century Uganda combines methods and themes from the history of medicine and public health, science and technology studies, and African studies to show that the story of the UVRI and the people who worked there transforms our understanding of the nature of local and international expertise and the evolution of global health research over the course of the twentieth century.

Derek received the 2024 Edward Gerjuoy/John Michell Award from the History of Science Society.

Hannah was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Michelle received an NEH Public Scholar award for 2024-2025 to support her research on Chien-Shiung Wu and the history of physics. Michelle also co-edited with Daniela Monaldi, Margriet van der Heijden and Patrick Charbonneau, Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik (in press with Cambridge University Press and expected to arrive mid-2025).

Tina published two articles:
“Amazon Mechanical Turk: Social Science’s Labor Problem,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 21, no. 3 (2024): 6–34, https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-11199970.
“Prescribing Information: Elizabeth B. Connell, the Pill, and the (Woman) Patient’s Peace of Mind” The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrae032.

Sam discussed "Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations" on the Hagley Museum and Library's History Hangouts podcast.

Eve published “Unequal Encounters: Debating Resource Scarcity, Population, and Hunger in the early Cold War,” in Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodríguez, and Stephen Casper, eds., Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
 

Sam published "Interaction as Training: Computing Center Misuse at the University of Michigan" in the Charles Babbage Institute's publication, Interfaces.

In 2024, Joe assumed the chair of the editorial board of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. With Michael Barton and Greg Radick, he co-edited The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13 (Pittsburgh, 2024), covering the period of Tyndall’s lecture tour of the United States in 1872–73. Funded by a Royal Society APEX Award, he is currently conducting a project on the history of soft matter physics.

Heewon published "Paul Ekman and the Search For the Isolated Face in the 1960s" in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.22322?af=R
The essay examines the detailed process of isolated facial data from the context of its emergence through the works of psychologist Paul Ekman in the 1960s. It explores how Ekman's data practices have been developed, criticized, and compromised within the political and intellectual landscape during his early career. The article was made possible through Heewon's visits to the Consortium institutions, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society Library and the University of Pennsylania.