Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

Daniel Vandersommers, The Ohio State University
2017 to 2018 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

Jonathan Jones, Binghamton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America

Kathrinne Duffy, Brown University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77

Aprajita Sarcar, Queen’s University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century

Timothy Minella, Villanova University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933

Lauren Rosati, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

American Women in Physics: Their Higher Education and Sites of Practice, 1870-1940

Joanna Behrman, Johns Hopkins University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939

Martha Groppo, Princeton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Characterizing Northern Nature in the Eighteenth Century

Emelin Miller, University of Minnesota
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941

Alma Igra, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Custom-Made Machines in an Era of Mass Production

Yuan Yi, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Public Health for African Americans – The First Campaign

Paul Braff, Temple University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Rethinking the Ontology of Chinese Encyclopedias: The Life and Times of Treatise on Military Preparedness (1621)

Sarah Basham, University of British Columbia
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, Showmanship & the Reinvention of the Anatomical Image, 1850-1950

Michael Sappol, Uppsala University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences 1958–2015

Rosanna Dent, University of Pennsylvania
2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

Tracing Links between American Chemical Companies and the Mexican Sulfur Industry

Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar, El Colegio de México
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

The Astonishment of Experience: Psychical Research as Citizen Science

Alicia Puglionesi, Johns Hopkins University
2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

Michelle Smiley, Bryn Mawr
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare in the United States, 1965-2000

George Aumoithe, Columbia University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise

Joseph Martin, National Science Foundation Research Scholar
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence