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, 2010-2011.
Sari Altschuler
Graduate Center, CUNY
Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the Program in Early American Medicine, Science, and Society
National Physiology: A Medico-Literary Exploration of the American Body and Body Politic between 1789 and 1860
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Writer-in-Residence: ArtsEdge Residency at the University of Pennsylvania
College of Physicians of Philadelphia F. C. Wood Institute Travel Grantee
Biography of Thomas Dent Mütter, founder of the Mütter Museum
Katherine Arner
The Johns Hopkins University
American Philosophical Society Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow &
Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy and Society Dissertation Fellow
Making Yellow Fever American: Disease Knowledge and the Geopolitics of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1793–1822
Heather Beatty
Oxford University / University of the Pacific
American Philosophical Society Library Isaac Comly Martindale Fund Fellow
Patriots, Politics and Medical Practitioners: Trans-Atlantic Medical Relations in the Age of the American Revolution
Kevin Joel Berland
Independent Scholar
College of Physicians of Philadelphia F. C. Wood Institute Travel Grantee
The Mind’s Construction in the Face: The Logic of Physiognomy from the Early-Modern Adaptation of Ancient Wisdom to the Invention of a Science of Character
José Bertomeu-Sánchez
Universitat de València, Spain
Chemical Heritage Foundation Herbert D. Doan Fellow
Between Science and Crime: Mateu Orfila and Nineteenth-Century Toxicology
Hester Blum
Pennsylvania State University
Library Company of Philadelphia National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow
Arctic and Antarctic Circles: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration
Benjamin Cohen
University of Virginia
Hagley Museum & Library Henry Belin du Pont Research Grantee
The Moral Landscape of Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Industrialized Food
Julian Comte
University of Pittsburgh
College of Physicians of Philadelphia F. C. Wood Institute Travel Grantee
Atlantic Crisscrossings: Syphilis in New York City and Buenos Aires
Matthew Crawford
Kent State University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellow
Chemistry in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic: An Underappreciated Imperial Science?
Sarah Kate Gillispie
York College, CUNY
Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the Program in Early American Visual Cultures
“One Thing New Under the Sun”: The Cross-Currents of Art and Science in the American Daguerreotype, 1839–1850
William Goodwin
Rowan University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Robert W. Allington Fellow
Resolving a Controversy: The Non-Classical Ion Debate
Lisa Green
University of California, Riverside
American Philosophical Society Library Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Fellow
The Modern Synthesis of Evolution and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
Catherine Guise-Richardson
Mississippi State University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar
Mind and Matter: the Development and Marketing of Thorazine and Stelazine at Smith, Kline & French
Bradley W. Hart
Cambridge University
American Philosophical Society Library Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
British and German Eugenicists in Transnational Context, 1930–1950
Kuang-Chi Hung
Harvard University
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America
Sarah Johnson
Carnegie Mellon University
Hagley Museum & Library Henry Belin du Pont Research Grantee
Legitimatizing Commodities: A Case Study in American Retail Marketing of Manufacturing
Galina Kichigina
Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, Toronto
College of Physicians of Philadelphia F. C. Wood Institute Travel Grantee
A History of Cardiovascular Science: From Experimental Physiology and Clinical Research to Molecular Medicine
Melanie Kiechle
Rutgers University
Chemical Heritage Foundation John C. Haas Fellow
“The Air We Breathe”: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air
Vangelis Koutalis
University of Ioannina, Greece
Chemical Heritage Foundation Robert W. Allington Fellow
The Historical Significance of Chemistry as a Philosophical Inquiry
Tayra Lanuza-Navarro
Universitat de València, Spain
Chemical Heritage Foundation Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow
Alchemy, Astrology and Books of Secrets: Ideas and Practices Before the Spanish Inquisition
Richard MacMaster
University of Florida
Hagley Museum & Library Henry Belin du Pont Research Grantee
Commercial Networks and Economic Change in the Backcountry 1760–1815
Vincente Maco
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru / Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore
College of Physicians of Philadelphia F. C. Wood Institute Travel Grantee
Historical Aspects of Pre-Incan and Post-Columbian Tungiasis in Peru
Joseph Daniel Martin
University of Minnesota
American Philosophical Society Library John C. Slater Fellow
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Building the Boundaries of Solid State Physics, 1940–1975
Andrew McGee
University of Virginia
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Mainframing America: Computers, Systems, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy and Society, 1940–1985
Martin McHugh
Loyola University New Orleans
Princeton University Library Research Grantee
A Biography of Robert H. Dicke
Donna Messner
University of Pennsylvania
Chemical Heritage Foundation Gordon Cain Fellow
The Origins of Medical Foods and their Regulation
Rebecca Miller
Harvard Graduate School of Education
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
In Pursuit of the “Tomorrow Mind”: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America
Jordi Mora Casanova
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow
Alchemical Reminiscences of Modern Chemists in the 19th Century
Christine Nawa
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Chemical Heritage Foundation Charles C. Price Fellow
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen's Research Style and His Teaching
Anne Parsons
University of Illinois at Chicago
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Balch Institute Fellow
Our Brothers Keepers: Mental Asylums, Prisons, and the Institutionalization of Twentieth Century America
Cesare Pastorino
Indiana University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Gordon Cain Fellow
“Minerall Tryalls”: Metal Assaying and Experiment in Early Modern England
Katherine Paugh
University of Wisconsin
American Philosophical Society Library Barra Foundation Edward C. Carter II Fellow
Thomas Thistlewood and the Great Pox: A Jamaican Overseer's Ideas about Race, Venereal Disease, and Infertility, 1750–1786
Alexander Pechenkin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Chemical Heritage Foundation Robert W. Allington Fellow
The Social History of Quantum Chemistry in the USSR (1950–1991)
Joanna Radin
University of Pennsylvania
PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Life on Ice: Frozen Blood, Human History, and Biodiversity in a Genomic Age
Evan Ragland
Indiana University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow
Experimenting with Chemical Bodies: Knowledge and Practice in the Interrelation of Anatomy, Chemistry, and Physiology, 1655–1855
Linda Richards
Oregon State University
Chemical Heritage Foundation Herbert D. Doan Fellow
Disrupting Hozho: A Comparative History of Nuclear Science and Radiation Safety in University Research and Uranium Mining
Madhumita Saha
Iowa State University
PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
State Policy, Agricultural Research, and Transformation of Indian Agriculture, with Special Reference to Basic Food Crops, 1947–1985
Funke Sangodeyi
Harvard University
American Philosophical Society Library Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
The Body as Ecosystem: Gut Flora, Good Germs and Microbial Ecology, 1940s–2000s
Paul Shin
Yale University / University of Rochester
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Insensible Souls: Mesmerism, Science, and the American Imagination, 1837–1860
David Silverman
George Washington University
Library Company of Philadelphia National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow
Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
John Stewart
University of Oklahoma
Chemical Heritage Foundation Robert W. Allington Fellow
Beyond Chemistry: Affinity as a Unifying Principle in Science at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Cameron Strang
University of Texas at Austin
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763–1840
Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Mémosciences / Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Chemical Heritage Foundation Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow
The Chemists’ Blues: The History of Prussian Blue and Modern Chemistry
Dora Vargha
Rutgers University
PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: The International Governance of Polio in the Cold War from a Hungarian Perspective
Bess Williamson
University of Delaware
Chemical Heritage Foundation ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow
The Right to Design: Disability and Access in the United States, 1945–2000
Nasser Zakariya
Harvard University
Chemical Heritage Foundation John C. Haas Fellow
The Matter of Life: The Role of Chemistry in the Scientific Epic