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  • Minseok Jang

    University at Albany, State University of New York
    - Research Fellow

    Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911

  • Heewon Kim

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    - Research Fellow

    Coding Actions, Making Faces: Understanding the Human Through Faces 1960 – 2000

  • Shirley Kinney

    Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Untangling the Manuscripts and Medicine of the Pseudo-Apuleius Group

  • Alexei Kojevnikov

    Department of History, University of British Columbia
    - Research Fellow

    Knabenphysik: Cultural Crises, Postdoctoral Revolt, and Social Contexts of the Quantum Revolution

  • Oliver Lazarus

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
    - Research Fellow

    Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life

  • Jamie Marsella

    PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University
    - Research Fellow

    "The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930

  • Catherine Mas

    Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida International University
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Sweet Captivity: A Transnational History of Primatology and Culture

  • Kirsten Moore Sheeley

    Assistant Professor, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    - Research Fellow

    Chasing the Magic Bullet: This History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

  • Derek Nelson

    Ph.D., Department of History, University of New Hampshire
    - Emanuel Fellow

    Reexamining Historical Introductions of Marine Wood-Boring Species from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology

  • Donald L Opitz

    Associate Professor, DePaul University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)
    - Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920

  • Bican Polat

    Humanities, New York University Shanghai
    - Research Fellow

    Adjustment, Mental Hygiene, and Child Study: The Advent of the Personality and Culture Perspective in American Social Science

  • Jennifer Reiss

    PhD candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
    - Research Fellow

    Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

  • Chelsea Schields

        Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Charged Currents: Electric Power in the Caribbean

  • Y L Lucy Wang

    PhD candidate in Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
    - Research Fellow

    Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894-1949

  • Jiemin Tina Wei

    PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University
    - Research Fellow

    Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950

  • Angela Xia

    PhD candidate in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
    - Research Fellow

    The Rest of Life: Hospice, Aging, and the Expansion of Palliative Care in America, 1971-2000

  • Che Yeun

    PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University 
    - Research Fellow

    The Finishing Touch: Cleaning and Feeling Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970

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  • Derek Baron

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University
    - Research Fellow

    The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

  • Barrie Blatchford

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
    - Research Fellow

    Unnatural Selection: Animal Acclimatization, Nation-Building, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1865-1970

  • Camilla Cannon

    Ph.D. Student, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
    - Research Fellow

    Standard: The Institutionalization of Transgender Medicine

  • Leo Chu

    Ph.D. Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
    - Research Fellow

    Harvesting Diversity: Ecology, Agriculture, and the Remaking of Development, 1970-2010

  • Nayanika Ghosh

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University
    - Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

    Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science

  • F Eliza Glaze

    Professor, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Medicine in the Making: Reading Hippocrates and Galen in Early Salerno and Monte Cassino

  • Benjamin Goossen

    Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago
    - Research Fellow

    The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

  • Anthony Greco

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
    - Research Fellow

    Engineering Egypt: Science, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Empire

  • Holly Gruntner

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William & Mary
    - Dissertation Fellow

    Fertile Ground: Kitchen Gardens and Knowledge Production in Early America

  • Hiro Hirai

    Research Associate, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Science and Medicine

  • Rana Hogarth

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenic Race-Crossing Studies and the Legacies of Slavery

  • Zsuzsanna Ihar

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
    - Research Fellow

    Arming the Field: The Deployment of Agricultural Science in the Context of War and in its Aftermath (1990-2020)

  • Adam Johnson

    Ph.D., Department of History, University of Michigan
    - NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

    Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest

  • Bethany Johnson

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina
    - Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

    In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922

  • Judith Kaplan

    Ph.D., National Science Foundation Research Scholar
    - Fellow in Residence

    Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research

  • Julia Marino

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
    - Research Fellow

    Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Postindustrial Crusade for Technological and Economic Competitiveness

  • Margaret Maurer

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    - Dissertation Fellow

    Everyday Alchemy

  • Julia Menzel

    Ph.D. Candidate,  Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT
    - Research Fellow

    Enigmatic Nature: Absent Laws and Hidden Objects in Theoretical Physics, 1967-2004

Fellows Updates

Whitney Barlow Robles

Whitney published an article, "On Nonhuman Agency," in the Winter 2024 Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Her book, Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale University Press, 2023), was also featured on the New Books Network podcast.

 

Kurt MacMillan

Kurt was appointed Assistant Professor of Global History at Bard High School Early College.

Derek Nelson

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

Jennifer Eaglin

Jennifer has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Ohio State University.

Heewon Kim

Heewon published “Paul Ekman and the Search for the Isolated Face in the 1960s,” in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The article explores how Ekman’s data practices shifted from analyzing faces in interactions to studying them in isolation from 1961 to 1967 and is part of Heewon's broader project on the history of facial recognition systems. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.22322

Angela Xia

Angela Xia has recently begun a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Cushwa Center postdoctoral fellows dedicate much of their time to their own research and writing projects under the mentorship of Notre Dame faculty. They also actively contribute to the work of the Cushwa Center by supporting event and conference planning and bringing their expertise to bear on other center programming.

Y. L. Lucy Wang

Lucy received the 2024 Carter Manny Writing Award.

Barrie Blatchford

Barrie has been appointed assistant professor of environmental history at University of Northern British Columbia.

Matthew Wisnioski

Matt received a National Science Foundation award for The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of American Science Education.

Cam Cannon

Cam has been named as a 2024-2025 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellow for "Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States."