Fellowships

Hausse won a 2015-16 Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project, Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700.

Hausse was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2015-16. Her article "Bones of Contention: The Decision to Amputate in Early Modern Germany," is forthcoming in the Sixteenth Century Journal. She recently presented a paper, "Setting the Record Straight: The Invention of Mechanical Limbs in Sixteenth-Century Europe," at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and was awarded Honorable Mention (runner-up) for the Robinson Prize.

Martin is currently in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science unit at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University. Together with Michel Janssen, he co-edited a special issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, titled "Making the History of Physics Dirtier: Solid State Physics in the Twentieth Century," which appears in November 2015. He and Richard Bellon recently assumed the co-editorship of Endeavour and encourage submissions from friends of the Consortium.

Opitz secured NSF funding to support the conference "Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge" in Prague, Czech Republic, June 5-8, 2015. Opitz also lead-edited a volume of fourteen new essays on domesticity in modern science: Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science, ed. Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Tapia is now a Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow at John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

Belolan has won fellowship support from four sources for 2015-16: A University Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Delaware; a Winterthur Library Dissertation Fellowship; a Center for Historic American Visual Culture Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society; and a Caesar Rodney Fellowship from the General Society of Colonial Wars.

Tapia is now a Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow at John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

Hausse won a 2015-16 Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project, Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700.

Best's article, "Meta-Incommensurability between Theories of Meaning: Chemical Evidence," recently appeared in Perspectives on Science. His translation of an important paper by Lavoisier will soon be published in two parts in Foundations of Chemistry: "Lavoisier's 'Reflections on phlogiston' I: against phlogiston theory," and "'Reflections on phlogiston' II: on the nature of heat."

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.