Fellows Updates

George Aumoithe

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.

Lisa Ruth Rand

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

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 Martin

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 Hausmann

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

Taylor Moore

Taylor was awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year, during which she will be writing and researching in Cairo and at the American Research Institute in Turkey.

Jessica Dandona

Jessica has had papers related to her current book project, supported by her Consortium fellowship, accepted to IV International Conference on Medical Humanities, the Association for Art History Annual Conference and the 10th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization.

Vivek Neelakantan

Vivek is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, where he designed and teaches a course on business history. His monograph, Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia, will soon be translated into Bahasa Indonesian (mid-2019) by the KOMPAS Group.

Katherinne Duffy

Kathrinne is in the midst of a nine-month fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI.

Alana Staiti

Alana has been named Curator of the History of Computers and Information Sciences at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.