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, 2012-2013.
Susan Armstrong-Reid
Lillian Sholtis Brunner Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
The experiences of the Friends’ Ambulance Unit (FAU) nurses in the China Convoy from 1941-1951 to deepen our understanding of the contested and dynamic frontiers of international nursing within war torn China.
Megan Bayles
University of California, Davis
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Gross Anatomy: Knowledge, Wonder & Bodies on Display
Ian Beamish
Johns Hopkins University
Haas Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Saving the South: Printing Agricultural Improvement in the American South, 1820-1865
Jeremy Blatter
Harvard University
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920
Catherine Bonier
University of Pennsylvania
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Instrument and Emblem of Democratic Equilibrium
Susan Hanket Brandt
Temple University
Consortium Fellow, MCEAS
Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740–1830
Jeffrey Brideau
University of Maryland
Dissertatation Writing Fellow, PACHS
A Bond Rather than a Barrier: Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway, An Environmental History
Andrew Butrica
Independent Scholar
Doan Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Jean-Baptiste Dumas: Promoter of Chemical Industry
Dillon J. Carroll
University of Georgia
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Sarah Jane Chesney
College of William and Mary
Barra Material Culture Dissertation Fellow, MCEAS
The Fruit of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton’s Greenhouse and the Rise of American Botany in Early Federal Philadelphia
Deanna Day
University of Pennsylvania
Price Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
98.6: Fevers, Fertility, and the Patient Labor of American Medicine
Claire Gherini
Johns Hopkins University
Library Company of Philadelphia
“Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You”: Managing Health and Sickness in the Plantation Enlightenment, 1730-1800
Daniel S. Goldberg
East Carolina University
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Jan Golinski
University of New Hampshire
Cain Distinguished Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Susan Grant
University College Dublin and University of Toronto
Alice Fisher Society Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
Analysis of the place of nursing under the Bolshevik regime.
Benjamin Gross
Cain Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Engineer’s Toolkit: Passive Components and the American Electronics Industry
Ari Gross
University of Toronto, Canada
Allington Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Structure and Spatiality: Chemical Diagrams and Models and the Birth of Stereochemistry
Anthony Hazard
Santa Clara University
American Philosophical Society
Boasians at War: Anthropology, "Race" and World War II
Tisha Hooks
Yale University
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination
Laura Igoe
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia
Lijing Jiang
Arizona State University
Allington Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century
Katrina Jirik
University of Minnesota
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
American Institutions for the Feeble-minded from 1875 to 1920: a reinterpretation
Katherine Johnston
American Philosophical Society
Health, Place, and Race in the Eighteenth-Centure Atlantic World
Laura Ann Kalba
Smith College
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Color in the Age of Impressionism: Technology, Commerce, and Art
Joel Klein
Indiana University
Edelstein Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chymistry, Corpuscular Medicine, and Controversy: The Ideas and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
Rebecca Laroche
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Victoria Lee
Princeton University
Ullyot Scholar, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Synthetic Fermentation and Applied Biology in Japan, 1910-1960
Max Liboiron
New York University
Allington Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Transforming Pollution: Ocean Plastics and Body Burdens
Elva Kathleen Lyon
Independent Scholar
Exploratory Grant, Hagley Museum and Library
Early American Saw Mills, Technology, Transfer, and Timber Production
Emily Merchant
American Philosophical Society
Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century
Alexander Mitchell
American Philosophical Society; Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
Max Bergmann and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1934-1944)
Douglas O'Reagan
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War
Safiyyah Okoye
University of Pennsylvania Alice Fisher Society Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
“Community Nursing at the Tufts-Delta Health Center 1967-1970,” A study about nursing activities at the Tufts-Delta Health Center.
Rebecca Onion
University of Texas, Austin
Postdoctoral Fellow, PACHS
Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s
Christopher Parsons
University of Toronto
Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, MCEAS
Plants and Peoples: French and Indigenous Botanical Knowledges in Colonial North America, 1600–1760
Catherine Price
Freelance Journalist
Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Fortified: The Secret Science of Food
Ann Robinson
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Herdegen Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Dissertatation Writing Fellow, PACHS
Creating a Symbol of Science: The Standard Periodic Table of the Elements
Ariel Ron
University of California, Berkeley
Library Company of Philadelphia
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Roots of the Republican Party
Franco Rossi
American Philosophical Society
Cycles of Time, Cycles of Rule: APS Ethnohistorical Collections and Their Importance for the Archaeology of Xultun
Fallon Samuels
Harvard University
H. B. du Pont Fellowship, Hagley Museum and Library
Smart Growth: Shrinking Cities and Sprawling Expertise in America's Rust Belt, 1962-1968
Mat Savelli
McMaster University, Canada
Haas Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
A Comparative History of Psychopharmaceutical Print Advertising
Robin Scheffler
American Philosophical Society
Cancer Viruses and the Construction of Biomedicine in the United States, 1900-1980
Sarah Scheutze
University of Kentucky
Thirteen-month fellow, MCEAS
More Than Death: Fear of Illness in American Literature, 1775–1876
David Singerman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haas Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
An Empire of Purity: Making the Modern Sugar Market, 1875-1925
Aimee Slaughter
University of Minnesota
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939
Ellan Spero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Allington Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Production and Place, Textile Science and Education in a Technological Landscape
Cameron Strang
University of Texas
Dissertation Fellow, MCEAS
Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763–1842
Simon Thode
Johns Hopkins University
American Philosophical Society; Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820
Tristan Tomlinson
Stony Brook University
Consortium Fellow, MCEAS
The Ills of Empire: Managing Health and Populations across the British Atlantic World, 1707–1834
Jenna Tonn
Harvard University
Dissertatation Research Fellow, PACHS
The Show-Room and the Workshop: The Laboratory within the Natural History Museum and the Development of American Biology, 1850 – 1935
Jeannine Uribe
Drexel University
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
A study of the diversity of work completed by Jessie M. Scott during her tenure as Director of the Division of Nursing, the top nursing position in the US federal government.
Theodore Varno
American Philosophical Society
REengineering and Domesticated Fowl: Genericists, Chicken Breeders, and the Poultry Industry in the United States
Antonia M. Villarruel and Barbara Brush
University of Michigan
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
A study of the contributions of Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, a prominent Hispanic nurse leader and founder of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN), to nursing education and practice.
Adelheid Voskuhl
Harvard University
Doan Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Engineering as Institution: Technical and Technocratic Elites in Germany and the US, 1870 to 1935