Fellows Updates

Teasel Muir-Harmony

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.

Lijing Jiang

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.

Simon Thode

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.

Cameron Strang

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.

Meghan Crinic

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."

Susan Hanket Brandt

is currently a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written several forthcoming pieces including an entry for The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History, part of a new twelve-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American History, and a book review for The Historian.

Benjamin Breen

are starting an online journal of archival and narrative history, The Appendix.

Joanna Radin

is Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and of History at Yale University. Publication news includes a forthcoming article in a special issue of Social Studies of Science for which she is a guest editor.

Christopher Heaney

are starting an online journal of archival and narrative history, The Appendix.

Kurt MacMillan

has received a fellowship from the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College to participate in the 2013 Humanities Institute, "Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950."