Fellowships

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.

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

Katherine, along with colleague Sietske Fransen, guest edited a special issue of Word & Image, "The Practice of Copying in Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" 2019, vol. 35, issue 3, and co-wrote the introduction and one of the articles.

Lever Press will publish Miller's book Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute in May 2020.

Yuan Yi was awarded the 2019 Levinson Prize for her paper "Custom-Made Machines in the Era of Mass Production" by the Society for the History of Technology. She is also organizing a conference entitled "Rethinking Craft in Postindustrial Society," to be held at Columbia University on December 13, 2019.

Carin has started a new position as the Executive Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. You can read more about the appointment here.

Paul recently published "The fault in his seeds: Lost notes to the case of bias in Samuel George Morton’s cranial race science" in PLoS Biology. The article was covered in Ars Technica and the Discover Magazine online blog, and is directly related to figures and collections connected to the University of Pennsylvania, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

Neeraja is now editor of the HSS Newsletter, and has two publications: "Macfarlane Burnet: The Concept of Self" in Interference: International Review of Science 4, no. 4 (July 2019), and Anderson W., Sankaran N. (2019) "Historiography and Immunology" in Dietrich M., Borello M., Harman O. (eds), Handbook of the Historiography of Biology: Historiographies of Science, volume 1 (Springer, 2022). Neeraja will be an International Visiting Fellow at the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Leeds for one semester, beginning January 2020.