Fellowships

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 James Poskett, who has been appointed Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, starting September 2017.

Joseph has returned to the Consortium in 2016-17 as an NSF Research Scholar. In February 2016 he published an article in Physics Today, "The Peaceful Atom Comes to Campus," about the Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project, a post-World War II nuclear research program at the University of Michigan that doubled as a war memorial. A special issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences on new directions for history of the physical sciences, which Joseph co-edited with Amy Fisher, also appeared in June of this year.

As of summer 2016, Chris will begin as assistant professor of Modern Latin American History at Penn State, and as a Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christopher is now Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American History at Penn State and the 2016-2018 Barra Post-Doctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anna is now the Assistant Director for Education at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame, where she directs the undergraduate programs and serves as an executive director of the graduate programs. Anna also published "Stagnant Science: Planning and Coordination of Biomedical Research in the Brezhnev Era" in Artemy Kalinovsky and Dina Fineberg, eds. Reconsidering Stagnation (Lexington Books, 2015).

Starting in fall of 2015, O'Reagan will take up a post as Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Lead Archivist of the Hanford History Project at Washington State University - Tri Cities. O'Reagan is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California - Berkeley. In 2014-15, he was awarded a 3-month Seidel Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation for his project "Industrial Espionage, Tech Transfer, and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century."