Fellowships

Ryan published "Big Science, Nazified? Pascual Jordan, Adolf Meyer-Abich, and the Abortive Scientific Journal Physis" in Isis 110, no. 1 (March 2019).

Theodora defended her dissertation and received the Dean's Fellowship Award for Humanistic Studies from University of San Diego. She has been named Postdoctoral Associate at the AI Now Institute at New York University.

Dora received the 2019 Book Award from the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) for Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic.

Roberto published "El 'imperio fluvial' franciscano en la Amazonia occidental entre los siglos XVII y XVIII" ["The Franciscan 'River Empire' in Western Amazonia between the 17th and 18th Centuries"], in Historia Critica 73 (2019): 95-116.

Abe recently co-edited a Focus Section on "Computational History and Philosophy of Science" and co-authored an article, "The History of Science and the Science of History: Computational Methods, Algorithms, and the Future of the Field," both in the same issue of Isis (September 2019). Abe also published an article, "Moonshine Capital of the World: A Visual History of Untaxed Whiskey in Franklin County, Virginia," in Environmental History (July 2019).

George has been awarded a Career Enhancement Adjunct Faculty Fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, as well as a Hurst Fellowship for the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute, and has been selected to participate in the 2019 Law & Society Association Junior Scholars Workshop. George organized a conference titled "Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism in Medico-Legal History" at Princeton University. For more on this conference, see https://sites.google.com/view/law-difference-healthcare/home.

Ruth was awarded the Perry World House's Inaugural Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prize for original essays intended for a policy audience that draw on original academic research. She also published an article titled "Falling Cosmos: Nuclear Reentry and the Environmental History of Earth Orbit" in Environmental History. In fall 2019 she will begin a Haas Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Science History Institute.

Yuan Yi has been awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year by the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia. Her dissertation project “Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Chinese Cotton Factories, 1889-1949" examines the industrialization of Chinese cotton spinning in the early twentieth century from a technological perspective.

Joseph has accepted an Assistant Professorship in the Department of History, Durham University. His paper “When Condensed Matter Physics became Kingâ€_x009d_ appeared in Physics Today. He and his collaborator Agnes Bolinska were awarded the 2019 IUHPST Essay Prize for their paper “Negotiating History: Contingency, Canonicity, and Case Studies

Stephen has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas.