Fellowships

Alicia has a contract with Stanford University Press for her monograph, Republic of Experience: Citizen Science at the Limits of the Mind.

George Consortium will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton.

Taylor recently delivered a talk, "Living Fossils: Pelviic Bones and Fertile Wombs as Objects of Natural History in Semicolonial Egypt," to Stanford's History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium.

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).

Lauren has accepted a position as Assistant Curator in the Modern & Contemporary Art department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Daniel recently published “Narrating Animal History from the Crags: A Turn-of-the-Century Tale about Mountain Sheep, Resistance, and a Nation,” Journal of American Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3 (August 2017): 751-777.

Nicole recently published “‘Confined to Crutches’: James Logan and the Material Culture of Disability in Early America,” Pennsylvania Legacies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 2017): 6-11.

Heidi has accepted a position as assistant professor in early modern Europe in the History Department at Auburn University, to begin in August 2018.

Jonathan has recently published “Then and Now: How Civil War-Era Doctors Responded to Their Own Opiate Epidemic,” The Civil War Monitor, November 3, 2017, and was interviewed for a segment on NPR’s Boston affiliate WBUR: “As The Opium Trade Boomed In The 1800s, Boston Doctors Raised Addiction Concerns,” by Martha Bebinger, CommonHealth, August 1, 2017.