Fellowships

Alexandra received the 2019-20 Fulbright-University of Reading Postgraduate Award to study history in the United Kingdom. She recently published an article titled “Situating Standpoint Magazine: Conservative Journalism and Eugenic Ideology” on eugenic discourse in the British publication Standpoint. When she returns from the UK, Alexandra will begin a Ph.D. in African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Ellen was recently awarded the British Society for the History of Mathematics Taylor and Francis Early Career Prize.

Menglu Gao has recently received the 2020 Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies by the Midwest Victorian Studies Association.

Justin Tackett recently published “'I heard his silver Call': Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Telegraphic Acoustics" in the Review of English Studies, 2019 as well as "Hearing Wireless in Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain'" a Tolfree Prize Winner in the Thomas Hardy Journal, 2019. His article "The British Novel of Auscultation" is under contract with Routledge. Tackett has also been named a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick.

In September 2019 Geoff Bil started as a Visiting Assistant Prof in the Department of History at U. Delaware. Additionally, Bil is in contract with Johns Hopkins University Press for his forthcoming book, Indexing the Indigenous: Plants, Peoples and Empire.

Tamara Kneese has recently published a co-edited special issue of Social Text on the subject of Radical Care. 

Vivek published a Bahasa Indonesia translation of his book, Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia.

Teasel Muir-Harmony published Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo (Basic Books, 2020).

Sally Chengji Xing gave a recent invited talk at Nankai University, Tianjin, about Paul Monroe and China. She gave a workshop presentation at Cornell University, about the China Foundation story from 1913 to 1949. She will present her work at Wuhan University in April, and later in Shanghai Normal University perhaps in May. In June, she will present a paper based on her second chapter to the SHAFR annual conference.

Whitney Barlow Robles published “The Rattlesnake and the Hibernaculum: Animals, Ignorance, and Extinction in the Early American Underworld" in the January 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly.