Fellows Updates

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."

Andrew Berns

is the Melville J. Kahn fellow this year at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Following his fellowship he will take up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina.

Christopher F. Jones

is a Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow at UC Berkeley. Two of his articles that draw heavily on materials in the collections of consortium institutions have recently been recognized—one winning the 2011 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Prize for best article published in the previous eighteen months in the relationships between technology and environment in history, and one receiving an honorable mention for the 2012 Oxford Journals Article Prize for best article published in the journal Enterprise and Society in the previous year.

Alexander Moffett

In summer 2016, Alex will begin a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Joseph Malherek

Three of Malherek's papers were recently accepted for publication and are slated to appear in 2016: "Shopping Malls and Social Democracy: Victor Gruen's Postwar Campaign for Conscientious Consumption in American Suburbia" in Consumer Engineering: Marketing between Planning Euphoria and the Limits of Growth, 1930s to 1970s, eds. Gary Cross, Ingo Köhler, and Jan Logemann; "Victor Gruen's Retail Therapy: Exiled Jewish Communities and the Invention of the American Shopping Mall as a Postwar Ideal," Leo Baeck Institute Year Book; and "From the Ringstraße to Madison Avenue: Commercial Market Research and the Viennese Origins of the Mass Culture Debate, 1941-1961," Canadian Review of American Studies.

Phillip Honenberger

Honenberger's article "Grene and Hull on Types and Typological Thinking in Biology" appeared in the May 2015 issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. A collection of new essays of which he is the editor, entitled Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, was published by Palgrave Macmillan press in October 2015. He also completed two encyclopedia articles on David Lee Hull (1935-2010) and Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-), which are forthcoming in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 2nd edition, ed. John Shook (Bloomsbury), and a review essay that is forthcoming in Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

Nicole Belolan

2014-15 Research Fellow, 2017-18 Fellow in Residence

Sarah Bridger

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.

Kathryn Irving

Irving submitted her dissertation, “Happy and Useful: Educating Children with Disabilities in Nineteenth-Century America,â€_x009d_ for December 2016 graduation. In January 2016 she returned to Australia with her partner and toddler, to return to full-time clinical practice in pediatrics.

Joanna Radin

Joanna received the 2017 John C. Burnham Early Career Award from the Forum for History of Human Science at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting for her article, “Rescaling Colonial Life From the Indigenous to the Alien: The Late 20th Century Search for Human Biological Futures.”