Fellowships

Muir-Harmony has been appointed to a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.

Onion's book, tentatively titled Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Public Science in the United States, is now under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.

Mansfield has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2014-15 from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She will be spending this fellowship at the Center.

recently submitted her dissertation which focuses on American medical relief in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1949). She has also completed a historical documentary (www.warisbeautifuldocumentary.com) which she directed and produced. Aelwyn is currently a Historian for the Joint POW/MIA Accountability Command working with a team of historians and forensic anthropologists who are trying to identify the remains of missing or unidentified servicemen from WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

is working on her dissertation this year at the Center. She also presented a paper, "Selling Space Capsules, Moon Rocks, and America: Project Apollo and the Evolution of Public Diplomacy, 1961-1973" at a conference in Oslo Norway as well as "The Apollo Program, Public Diplomacy, and the Role of Technology in Foreign Relations" at Colby College in Maine.

just finished her dissertation in August, "Degeneration in Miniature: History of Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century". She is currently at Princeton University as a D. Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, co-affiliated with the East Asian Studies Department and History of Science Program.

has returned back to New Zealand after receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins in June 2013. His dissertation was entitled "The Practices of Observational Science and the Development of the American Nation in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1763-1814". He is currently working as a research analyst in the government Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment, where he is involved in research on science innovation systems and policy.

Ph.D. at the University of Texas in August 2013. He is currently the Margaret Henry Dabney Penick resident scholar at the Smithsonian Institution. His recent article, "Indian Storytelling, Scientific Knowledge, and Poser in the Florida Borderlands" was published in the October 2013 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly.

graduated from the University of Pennsylvania History and Sociology of Science Department in August 2013 having successfully defended her dissertation, "Seeking the Salubrious Sea: The Health and Environments of Urban American Families, 1870-1930."

successfully defended his dissertation, "Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993" at the University of Minnesota this past May. He is now a Faculty Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College.