Announcing 2015-2016 Fellowships

The Consortium is pleased to announce its Research Fellows, Dissertation Writing Fellows, and NEH Postdoctoral Fellow for 2015-2016.

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

Joseph Malherek
George Washington University
From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America

Dissertation Writing Fellows

Lawrence Kessler
Temple University
Planter’s Paradise: Agriculture, Ecology, and Science in Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations, 1778-1920

Lisa Ruth Rand
University of Pennsylvania
Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985

Carolyn Roberts
Harvard University
Doctoring Chaos: The Transatlantic Medical Culture, Labor, and Economy of the British Slave Trade, 1680-1807

Research Fellows

David Ceccarelli
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Between Cope and Osborn: the Role of the American Biological Discourse on the Public Debate on Evolution

Wendy Gonaver
College of William and Mary
The Peculiar Institution: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry

Tamara Kneese
New York University
Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains

Tess Lanzarotta
Yale University
A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska

Shana Lopes
Rutgers University
“The fraternity throughout the world”: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890

Jongmin Lee
University of Virginia
Rayon: Poisoned History of Empowerment

Alexander Moffett
University of Chicago
The Circulation of Medical Knowledge: Collective Investigation, 1860-1920

Miriam Rich
Harvard University
Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Race and Defective Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Science, Medicine, and Law

James Risk
University of South Carolina
Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce, and the State in American Seaports, 1790 - 1860

Whitney Robles
Harvard University
Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815

Maxwell Rogoski
University of Pennsylvania
Surface and Self: Science and the Social Economy of Skin in the Twentieth Century

Sarah Sussman
University of Texas at Austin
Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940

Dora Vargha
Birbeck, University of London
Road to Eradication: Global Polio Vaccine Testing in the Cold War