Fellowships

Alma is organizing a graduate workshop at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Max Plank Institute of the History of Science: "Knowing through Animals: The Animal Turn in History of Science."

Michelle has been named Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

Chris has accepted a Lapidus Center Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Whitney recently published "Natural History in Two Dimensions," an essay on reconstructing historical specimen preservation techniques in Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life. A version of this essay received Harvard University's Bowdoin Prize in the Natural Sciences.

Abe Gibson's chapter "Invasive Species as Environmental Disaster" is forthcoming in Disaster and Risk in the Gulf South, edited by Cindy Ermus (Louisiana University Press, 2016).

Christopher has recently published "How to Make an Inca Mummy: Andean Embalming, Peruvian Science, and the Collection of Empire," Isis 109, no. 1 (March 2018): 1-27.

Kate has received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a dissertation completion fellowship from the Science History Institute.

James has an article forthcoming: "Seven Flags over the Cooper: James M. Elford and the Quest for a Universal Maritime Signal Code," in South Carolina Historical Magazine.

Daniel has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Indiana Academy, Ball State University. Dan also has an edited volume, Zoo Studies: A New Humanities, under contract with McGill-Queens University Press, as well as an article, "Sectionalism, Animal Symbols, and the Controversy of the National Zoo, 1887-1891," forthcoming in Environmental History. Daniel also delivered an address, “The Historical Ironies of Zoo Conservation, or How to Capture Bighorn Sheep in 1900," to the Centre for Evolutionary Ecology and Ethical Conservation at Laurentian University.

Joe recently published "Prestige Asymmetry in American Physics: Aspirations, Applications, and the Purloined Letter Effect," Science in Context 30, no. 4 (2017): 475-506. His book Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter appears this fall with the University of Pittsburgh Press.