The Consortium is very pleased to announce its 2017-2018 fellowship recipients:
Kevin T. Baker, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Northwestern University
Dissertation Fellow
World Processors: Computer Modeling, Global Environmentalism, and the Birth of Sustainable Development
Visiting Archives: Rockefeller Archive Center; Smithsonian Institution
Joanna F. Behrman, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
Research Fellow
A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Higher Education in Physics
Visiting Archives: American Institute of Physics; Columbia University
Paul A. Braff, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Temple University
Research Fellow
Enthroning Health: The National Negro Health Movement and the Fight to Control Public Health Policy in the African American Community, 1915-1950
Visiting Archives: College of Physicians of Philadelphia; New York Academy of Medicine; University of Pennsylvania
Theodora J. Dryer, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation Fellow
Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961
Visiting Archives: American Philosophical Society; Hagley Museum and Library; Princeton University; Rockefeller Archive Center
Kathrinne V. W. Duffy, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of American Studies, Brown University
Research Fellow
Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Antebellum America
Visiting Archives: Smithsonian Institution; American Philosophical Society; University of Toronto
Kate A. Grauvogel, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University
Research Fellow
A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones and Blood Clots, 1784 -1963
Visiting Archives: American Philosophical Society; College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Library Company of Philadelphia; Rockefeller Archive Center; Smithsonian Institution; University of Pennsylvania
Martha J. Groppo, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Princeton University
Research Fellow
Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939
Visiting Archives: Rockefeller Archive Center; Yale University; University of Pennsylvania
Nabeel Hamid, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow
Fellow in Residence
Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy
Alma B. Igra, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Columbia University
Research Fellow
Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941
Visiting Archives: Columbia University; Yale University; New York Academy of Medicine
Jonathan S. Jones, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Binghamton University
Research Fellow
“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath
Visiting Archives: American Philosophical Society; College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Yale University
Lawrence H. Kessler, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence
Planter’s Paradise: Environment, Empire, and Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
Visiting Archives: Newberry Library
Adrianna H. Link, Ph.D.
Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
Research Fellow
Urgent Anthropology: Salvaging Humankind in Crisis
Visiting Archives: American Philosophical Society; Smithsonian Institution; Yale University; University of Pennsylvania
Joseph D. Martin, Ph.D.
National Science Foundation Research Scholar
Fellow in Residence
Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University
Emelin E. Miller, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Research Fellow
Empire of Ice: Arctic Natural History and British Visions of Nature, 1650-1800
Visiting Archives: Linda Hall Library; Newberry Library
Timothy K. Minella, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century
Visiting Archives: University of Pennsylvania; Library Company of Philadelphia; Hagley Museum and Library; Drexel University
Taylor M. Moore, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Rutgers University
Fellow in Residence and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow
Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semicolonial Upper Egypt (1875-1960)
Lauren Rosati, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Research Fellow
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
Visiting Archives: Hagley Museum and Library; Yale University; Linda Hall Library; University of Pennsylvania
Michael Sappol, Ph.D.
Uppsala University
Research Fellow
Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, showmanship & the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950
Visiting Archives: Yale University; New York Academy of Medicine; Columbia University
Aprajita Sarcar, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History, Queen’s University
Research Fellow
Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
Visiting Archives: New York Academy of Medicine; Princeton University; Rockefeller Archive Center
Adam Shapiro, Ph.D.
National Science Foundation Research Scholar
Fellow in Residence
An Unfit Darwinist: Disability, Slander and America's First Evolution Trial
Michelle Smiley, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr
Fellow in Residence
Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium
Daniel A. Vandersommers, Ph.D.
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
The National Zoological Park and the Transformation of Humanism in Nineteenth-Century America
Visiting Archives: Library Company of Philadelphia; Smithsonian Institution
Yuan Yi, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Research Fellow
Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Textile Factories in Early Twentieth-Century China
Visiting Archives: Hagley Museum and Library; Smithsonian Institution