Fellowships

Poskett has won the Adrian Research Fellowship in "Darwin and the Humanities" at Darwin College, UK, starting in October 2015. Poskett's article on the transatlantic publication and reception of "Crania Americana" (1839) was recently accepted for publication with History of Science.

Bridger is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Cal Poly. Bridger recently published her first book, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research, with Harvard University Press.

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.

Gibson has had two book chapters accepted for publication: "Beasts of Burden: Feral Burros and the American West," in The Historical Animal, edited by Susan Nance (Syracuse University Press, 2015), and "Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology" (co-written with Michael Ruse) in A Companion to the History of American Science, edited by Mark Largent (Wiley, 2015). He will make a presentation at the American Society for Environmental History annual meeting in March 2015, entitled "Feral Burros in the American West: The Environmental Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Mining Booms."

Willoughby is currently writing his dissertation at Tulane University. In April 2014, he was awarded a Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation's Program in Science, Technology, and Society for the project, "A History of Pathological Anatomy and Racial Science in America." This fall he was awarded the Waring Historical Library's W. Curtis Worthington Jr. Prize for the best graduate student essay in the history of the health sciences for his paper, "Running Away from Drapetomania: Rethinking Samuel Cartwright."

In 2015, Jiang became a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her recent publications include "Retouching the Past with Living Things: Indigenous Species, Tradition, and Biological Research in Republican China, 1918-1937," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46, no. 2 (April 2016): 154–206, and (with Hallam Stevens) "Chinese Biotech versus International Ethics? Accounting for the China–America CRISPR Ethical Divide," BioSocieties 10 (December 2015): 483-488.

Martin began a fixed-term Assistant Professorship at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University this year. His paper, "Is the Contingentist/Inevitabilist Debate a Matter of Degrees?" appeared in the December 2013 issue of Philosophy of Science. Three additional articles are slated to appear in 2015: "Evaluating Hidden Costs of Technological Change: Scaffolding, Agency, and Entrenchment" in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology; "What's in a Name Change? Solid State Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Materials Science," in Physics in Perspective; and "Fundamental Disputations: How Philosophical Debates Structured Solid State Physics" in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. Along with Michael Gordin of Princeton University, Joe is now co-convener of the Consortium's working group on the history of the physical sciences.

Breen is the editor-in-chief of The Appendix (which he co-founded with former Consortium fellow Christopher Heaney). He is finishing a Ph.D. at UT Austin on a Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and is also a 2014-2016 Mellon-Rare Book School Fellow in Critical Bibliography. Last year he published "No Man Is an Island: Knowledge Networks, Early Modern Globalization, and George Psalmanazar's Formosa," in The Journal of Early Modern History and "'The Elks Are Our Horses': Animals and Domestication in the New French Borderlands" in the Journal of Early American History.

Jiang has been appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, starting in December 2014. Her recent publications include "IVF the Chinese Way: Zhang Lizhu and Post-Mao Human in vitro Fertilization Research," in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (forthcoming); "Causes of Aging Are Likely to be Many: Robin Holliday and Changing Molecular Approaches to Cell Aging, 1963-1988," in the Journal of the History of Biology; and "Viktor Hamburger," in the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.

Brideau successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Bond Rather Than A Barrier? Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway," at the University of Maryland in May 2014. He now holds a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Water Resources, at the United States Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. He will also be teaching in the STS program at Virginia Tech for spring 2015.