Fellowships

Gibson has secured a book contract with Cambridge University Press for a revision of his dissertation, Born to Be Feral: An Evolutionary History of Domestic Animals in the American South. He made presentations at the Southern History of Science and Technology Conference, the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, and the Evolution and Ethics Conference in Tallahassee, Florida. On June 6 he will present on "Counting the Animals: Insights from the 2012 Agricultural Census," at the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky.

Jones's book Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard, 2014) was recently awarded the Edelstein Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, given to the outstanding scholarly book published in the past three years. Jones's research for that book was partially supported with a Consortium fellowship.

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."

Heidi is scheduled to defend her dissertation in mid-May 2016. She'll join the Columbia University Society of Fellows for 2016-2019 and has received the Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine at the Huntington.

Katherine is in her second year as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and is curating the university's very first cross-campus exhibit, "Hopkins and the Great War." Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I, this cross-campus exhibit will explore multiple facets of the relationship between Johns Hopkins University and the global conflict. It will debut in exhibit halls at the School of Medicine, School of Nursing and the Sheridan Libraries this coming fall.

Ben completed his PhD from UT Austin's history department in May 2015 and took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society of Fellows at Columbia University in August. Last spring he was offered a tenure-track position at UC Santa Cruz's Department of History, which he'll join in January of 2017. His dissertation, "Tropical Transplantations," was recently awarded UT Austin's Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2016.

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."

Dora's paper, "Between East and West: Polio Vaccination Across the Iron Curtain in Cold War Hungary," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88 (2) Summer 2014, was awarded the 2016 J. Worth Estes Prize of the American Association for the History of Medicine. The prize is awarded for the best published article in the history of pharmacology. Dora organized a conference in London in late May titled After the End of Disease, for which she received a Wellcome Trust Small Grant.

Risk was recently awarded the John A. and Annie Rice Excellence in Teaching Award by the Department of History of the University of South Carolina. Risk also won a Pam Laird Research Grant from the Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology, a Clyde Ferrell Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Department of History of the University of South Carolina, and a Richard A. Bacas Scholarship from the George Mason University Institute for Humane Studies.

In August 2016, Douglas will take up a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, consulting on the future of the digital humanities at MIT.