Fellows Updates

Rosanna Dent

Rosanna's Consortium research report, Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences 1958–2015 is now available.

Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar

Oscar's Consortium research report, Tracing Links between American Chemical Companies and the Mexican Sulfur Industry is now available.

Dora Vargha

has been named co-editor of the journal Social History of Medicine.

Jonathan Jones

published "The 'Right' and 'Wrong' Kind of Addict: Iatrogenic Opioid Addiction in Historical Context," Nursing Clio, July 25, 2017. He has also received fellowships from the Huntington Library and Binghamton University.

Nicole Belolan

has been selected by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities to participate in their Public Scholars Project. New Jersey non-profits will be able to apply to have her present her workshop on site called "Disabilities Then, Disabilities Now."

Carin Berkowitz

has been elected to a three-year term on the American Historical Association's Nominating Committee.

Timothy Minella

has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University.

Kathrinne Duffy

served as a curatorial research fellow for the exhibition Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist, which is opening on Oct. 4 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Katherine contributed essays to an exhibition book co-published with Yale University Press. Katherine also received dissertation research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society; the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium; and Brown University's Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Hazeltine Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship program.

Joseph Martin

has accepted a position as a teaching associate in the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. His book, Solid State Insurrection, based on research he conducted as a Consortium predoctoral fellow, has been accepted for publication with the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Jeffrey Brideau

is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Water Policy Collaborative, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. His project, funded through a grant administered by USGS, and in collaboration with the Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project focuses on strategic water resources planning and development in the U.S. during the middle decades of the 20th century.