Fellowships

The Organization of American Historians awarded Emily Merchant the 2022 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, which is given annually for the best book in American intellectual history. Merchant’s book, Building the Population Bomb (Oxford University Press), is a concise and memorable volume exploring the history of population science in its sociopolitical, economic, ideological, and ethical dimensions offering a comprehensive interrogation of the data and assumptions at the heart of twentieth-century demographic work, which fueled popular concerns about overpopulation.

James recently published a new book, Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science. Horizons recasts the history of science, uncovering the vital contributions that scientists in Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific have made to this global story.

Joe's book, Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968 is to be released later this year.

Vivek's new book, The Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia: Perspectives from the Cold War to COVID-19 is under contract for publication with Routledge.

Adam recently published a new book, Science and Religion, A Very Short Introduction. The book examines landmark episodes in science and religion history, including the Galileo affair, the Scopes “Monkey” trial, and the Covid-19 pandemic, and explains the historical roots of current debates between science and religion.

Ben was awarded a Fellowship at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton for Spring 2023 for his project, "How Not to Feed the World."

Michelle has been appointed Assistant Curator of photography at the Library of Congress.

Alexander Parry received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the NSF for additional archival work at the New York Public Library and New York Historical Society on insurance markets and consumer product safety this fall. Alex is also delivering an invited talk at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the JHU School of Public Health this March.

Justin Tackett is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the English Department at the University of Warwick. His article on Emily Dickinson and the telegraph ("'I heard his silver Call': Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Telegraphic Acoustics" (Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Emerging Scholars Award winner, Review of English Studies, 2019) ) won the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Emerging Scholars Award. His article on Paul Laurence Dunbar ("Fidelity and Paul Laurence Dunbar's Voice(s)" (Victorian Review, 2020)) was published last fall. His students in Stanford's "Stories Everywhere" course won the Creative Project Award for their animatic last fall.

In 2020, Joe Martin published Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Materials Research, co-edited with Cyrus Mody; his article “The Simple and Courageous Course: Industrial Patronage of Basic Research at the University of Chicago, 1945–1953” appeared in the December issue of Isis; and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.