Fellowships

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. 

Charles Kollmer has accepted a position as Postdoctoral Instructor in History of Modern Biology at Caltech.

Susan published a book chapter titled, “Marketing Medicine: Apothecary Elizabeth Weed’s Economic Independence during the American Revolution” in Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World, edited by Barbara B. Oberg and published by the University of Virginia Press in May 2019. She is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press to publish her book, Women Healers: Gender and Medical Authority in Early Philadelphia. Susan teaches history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

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

Matthew White recently took a position as Museum Liaison with the Capitol Museum Services, an exhibition design and fabrication company in Manassas, VA. CMS has been creating meaningful exhibits covering history, science, anthropology, natural sciences, sports and children’s discovery for government, corporate and private museums

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.