The Center has awarded six fellowships for dissertation research in area archives and libraries as well as two dissertation writing fellowships. Dissertation Research Fellows will spend one or two months conducting research in the Philadelphia area, and give a talk about their work here. Dissertation Writing Fellows will spend nine months in residence at the Center and speak in the Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
The 2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellows:
SARAH BRIDGER
Columbia University, Department of History
Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991
KARIN EKHOLM
Indiana University, History and Philosophy of Science Department
Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and their Contemporaries
CHRISTOPHER JONES
University of Pennsylvania, Department of History & Sociology of Science
Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930
TINA KIBBE
SUNY Buffalo, Department of History
Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950
MATTHEW LAUBACHER
Arizona State University, Department of History
Assessing the Role of European Thought: The Culture of Collecting in 19th-Century American Natural History
NICHOLAS SPICHER
Johns Hopkins University, Department of the History of Science & Technology
A Study of the 18th-Century Use and Growth of Scientific Demonstrations in the Context of University Instruction
The 2008-2009 Dissertation Writing Fellows:
THEODORE VARNO
University of California, Berkeley, Department of History
The History of Research into Artificial Selection, 1850-1950: How Biologists and Agriculturalists Experimented On and Wrote About Animal and Plant Inbreeding
DAMON YARNELL
University of Pennsylvania, Department of History & Sociology of Science
Motor City: Ford, Mass Production and the Urban Ecology of Detroit, 1908-1957