Fellows at the Center and Member Institutions 2011-2012

The Center offers both short- and long-term fellowships, as do several members of our consortium. Here is a partial list of scholars—most of whom are graduate students—who have received fellowships from the Center and its consortium partners to study history of science, technology or medicine during the current academic year, 2011-2012.

Rima Apple
University of Pennsylvania (School of Nursing) Lillian Sholtis Brunner Fellowship
Negotiating Public Health: A Study of the Lives of Public Health Nurses.

Kelly Brennan Arehart
College of William and Mary
Hagley H.B. du Pont Fellow
Give Up Your Dead: How Business, Technology and Culture Separated Americans from their Dearly Departed

Katherine Arner
Johns Hopkins University
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Shaped by Fever, Commerce and War: American Medicine and Public Health in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

Kelly Bezio
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Communicable Disease in the American Literary Imagination

Amanda Bevers
University of California, San Diego
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Making Museums of Medical History

Susan E. Brandt
Temple University
American Philosophical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Gifted women and skilled practioners: Gender and healing authority in the Mid-Atlantic region, 1740-1830

Susan Branson
Syracuse University
American Philosophical Society
Animal magnetism in Nineteenth-Century America

Benjamin Breen
University of Texas, Austin
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Tropics and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1760

Augustin Cerveaux
University of Strasbourg, France
Chemical Heritage Foundation Cain Fellow
From an art to a science: changes in paint chemistry and technology in Progressive Era America and the Great Depression

Nancy Cervetti
Avila University
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Writing a modern biography of S. Weir Mitchell

Sarah Jane Chesney
College of William and Mary
American Philosophical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia
The flowering web: Tracing William Hamilton's botanical network in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Megan J. Coyer
University of Glasgow
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Parallels between the Scottish and American phrenological movements.

Meghan Crnic
University of Pennsylvania, Department of History and Sociology of Science
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930

Helen Anne Curry
Yale University
Chemical Heritage Foundation ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow
Accelerating Evolution, Engineering Life: Science, Agriculture, and Technologies of Genetic Modification, 1925–1955

Sarah Everts
Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical Heritage Foundation Ullyot Scholar
Sweat Science: The science, culture, history and commercialization of perspiration, the chemical cocktail that humanity produces in abundant amounts

Andrew J. B. Fagal
Binghamton University
American Philosophical Society
To Provide for the Common Defense: The political economy of war in the Early American Republic, 1789-1818

Michelle Francl
Bryn Mawr College
Chemical Heritage Foundation Herdegen Fellow
Sideline Science: Critical Commentaries in 19th Century Journals and 21st Century Blogs

Nathaniel Freiburger
University of California, Davis
Chemical Heritage Foundation Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow
Cultures of Engineering and the Engineering of Politics: The Making of Lithium as an Object of Techno-Scientific Knowledge and Politics in Bolivia

Colin S. Gale
Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Playfair/Mitchell patient photographs

Apostolos Gerontas
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Chemical Heritage Foundation Doan Fellow
Writing the history of High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Claire Gherini
Johns Hopkins University
American Philosophical Society, PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of British Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800

Benjamin Goldberg
Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
History of pain without lesions in mid-to-late 19th c. America by examining a cache of papers in the S. Weir Mitchell Collection.

Frances Gouda
University of Amsterdam
American Philosophical Society
Colonial governance and public health, 1913-1942: A transnational study of Rockefeller Foundation initiatives in the Dutch East Indies, U.S. Philippines and Travancore (British India)

Christopher Heaney
University of Texas at Austin
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Grave Expectations: Peruvian Skulls, Museums and the Law, 1824-1948

Jenny Heil
Emory University
American Philosophical Society
The American Columbus: Chronology, geography, and the historical imagination in Nineteenth-Century literature

Catherine Jackson
University College London, UK
Chemical Heritage Foundation Cain Fellow
Material World: Analysis, Synthesis and the Making of Modern Chemistry

Benjamin A. Kahan
Louisiana State University
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Sexual Emergencies: A History of acquired Sexuality, 1870-1930

Lindsay M. Keiter
College of William and Mary
American Philosophical Society
From alliance to affection: Region, religion, and republicanism in American marriages, 1750-1860

Joshua A. Kercsmar
University of Notre Dame
American Philosophical Society
Living emblems: How animals shaped religious and political identity in America, 1630-1800

Melanie Kiechle
Rutgers University
Chemical Heritage Foundation ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow
The Air We Breathe: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air

Jamie Lapeyre
University of Pennsylvania (School of Nursing) Alice Fisher Fellowship
Foundations and International Training Programs

Rebecca Laroche
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Chemical Heritage Foundation Allington Fellow
Placing Robert Boyle’s Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours in Dialogue with the Recipe Arch

Jongmin Lee
Virginia Tech
Chemical Heritage Foundation Edelstein Fellow
Regulatory Engineering in the EPA: Chemical Monitoring, Catalytic Converters, and the Controlled Environment

Beth Linker
University of Pennsylvania (School of Nursing) Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Fellowship
Slouch: The Rise and Fall of American Posture

Kurt MacMillan
University of California, Irvine
PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965

Joseph Martin
University of Minnesota
PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993

Maureen Matthews
Linacre College, University of Oxford
American Philosophical Society
Hallowell Collection: Photographs and memories

Brendan Matz
Yale University
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Haas Fellow
The Science of Nutrition in Germany and the United States, 1870-1920

Sarah McCaslin
University of Edinburgh
American Philosophical Society
Performing Scottishness: Scottish clubs and societies in Scotland and America, 1750-1850

Keith Mikos
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
American Philosophical Society
Magnification: Meaning, metaphysics, and the microscope

Christine Nawa
University of Regensburg, Germany
Chemical Heritage Foundation Price Fellow
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s research style and his teaching

Anne E. Parsons
University of Illinois
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Our Brothers' Keepers: Mental Asylums, Prisons, and the Institutionalization of Twentieth Century America.

Christopher R. Pearl
Binghamton University
American Philosophical Society
For the Good Order of Government: The American Revolution and the creation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Erik Piil
New York University
Hagley H.B. du Pont Fellow
Du Pont Motion Picture Film: A History of Manufacture and Physical Characteristics as Aids to Identification

J. Emmanuel Raymundo
Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Edelstein Fellow
National Skin: Contact, Conflict and the Culion Leper Colony in the US Occupied Philippines, 1902-1941

Ashley T. Rubin
University of California, Berkeley
American Philosophical Society
Penal cycles: American punishment since the Revolution

Pedro Ruiz-Castell
University of Valencia, Spain
Chemical Heritage Foundation Allington Fellow
New identities from the invisible: The early days of electron microscopy

Funke Sangodeyi
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania (School of Nursing) Alice Fisher Fellowship, Hagley Grant-in-aid recipient, PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow, College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1990s

Ulf Schmidt
University of Kent, UK
Chemical Heritage Foundation Doan Fellow
Secret Science: Human Experimentation in Biological and Chemical Warfare Research during the Cold War

Sarah C. Schuetze
University of Kentucky
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
More Than Death: The Fear of Illness in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Elena Serrano
CEHIC-UAB, Spain
Chemical Heritage Foundation CHF Fellow
Women and chemistry in late eighteenth-century Spain: the chemico-charitable activities of the Junta de Damas

David J. Silverman
George Washington
American Philosophical Society
Thundersticks: firearms and the transformation of Native America

David Singerman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Philosophical Society
An empire of purity: Making the modern sugar economy, 1875-1925

Alistair Sponsel
Harvard University
American Philosophical Society
Darwin, Lyell, and British geology in the mid-nineteenth century

Anne Stiles
Washington State University
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
Resisting the Rest Cure: Women Writers and Alternative Therapies, 1870-1920.

Etienne Stockland
Columbia University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Allington Fellow
Trust, Credit and Expertise: The Alchemical Practitioners of Elizabethan London

Lisa Temple-Crox
University of Essex/Colchester Institute School of Art in England
College of Physicians Wood Institute Travel Grant Recipient
To explore ideas of identity, dislocation and consciousness inspired by Freudian psychoanalysis…

Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen
University of Rome
Hagley H.B. du Pont Fellow
Redrawing as an Investigating Instrument for Empirical Knowledge and Technological Changes in Architectural Works&mdashCase Study: Seagram Building (1954-58)

Jef Van Der Aa
University of Jvaskyla, Finland
American Philosophical Society
Language issues at the socialist scholars conferences: Dell Hymes' early engagement

Changming Wang
Guangxi University for Nationalities, P.R. China
Chemical Heritage Foundation Allington Fellow
The Lives and Studies of Outstanding Chinese Chemistry Students in the United States during the Republic of China (1911-1949): A Comprehensive Investigation on Chemical Dissemination and Cultural Exchange

Aelwen Wetherby
University of Oxford
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949

Ashli White
University of Miami
American Philosophical Society
Object lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Matthew White
University of Florida
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855 - 1900

Isaiah Wilner
Yale University
American Philosophical Society
Franz Boas and the transformation of race in America, 1858-1942

Laura Wright
Johns Hopkins University
American Philosophical Society
The role of the Bible in the archaeological method of William F. Albright

Doogab Yi
National Institutes of Health
Chemical Heritage Foundation Haas Fellow
The Organized Search for the Oncogene: 'Proto' Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, and the History of the War on Cancer, 1964-1980