Fellowships

has received an Albert M. Greenfield Dissertation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Sarah will be working on a project titled "Correspondence Networks and the Construction of American Medicine."

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

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

Congratulations to Carin Berkowitz on the publication of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (University of Pittsburgh Press), which she co-edited with Bernard Lightman.

Michelle Smiley recently published an article on the history of clockmaking in Philadelphia for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.

Emily Merchant has been appointed Assistant Professor in the STS program at U.C. Davis. Emily has also published several articles: "A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915-1984," Population and Development Review 43, no 1 (2017): 83-117; "IDS Transposer: A Users Guide," Historical Life Course Studies 4 (2017): 59-96; "Historical Demography in the United States," pp. 655-670 in A Global History of Historical Demography, ed. Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, S. Sogner, and I. Bolovan. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016; and "La Raza: Mexicans in the United States Census," Journal of Policy History 28, no. 4 (2016): 537-567, awarded the James Madison prize by the Society for History in the Federal Government.

Rosanna Dent will be a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies at McGill next year, and will be assuming a position as assistant professor in the Federated Department of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology beginning in the 2018-19 academic year.

Congratulations to Julia Mansfield, who will be the Cassius M. Clay Fellow in the History Department, Yale University for 2017-2019.

Carolyn Roberts has received a joint appointment in History/History of Science and Medicine and African American Studies at Yale University.

Congratulations to Tamara Kneese, who has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Media Studies department of University of San Francisco.