Christine Peralta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Tricia Ross, Duke University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
The application deadline for Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia is July 15, 2017.
Louis Gerdelan, Harvard University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
The June Newsletter welcomes the Adler Planetarium and SHOT, as well as 2017-18 fellows to the Consortium. It also has updates on working groups, events and other activities.
Congratulations to David Ceccarelli (2015-2016 Research Fellow), who recently completed his Ph.D. in Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences at University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Congratulations to Carin Berkowitz (2009-2010 Dissertation Writing Fellow), on the publication of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (University of Pittsburgh Press), which she co-edited with Bernard Lightman.
Congratulations to Christopher Willoughby (2014-2015 Research Fellow) who will be postdoctoral fellow at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
Christopher is also co-organizing a symposium titled, "Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery" to be held at Rice University in February 2018. Symposium details, including the call for papers can be found at: http://medicineandhealingintheageofslavery.blogs.rice.edu/.
AJ Blandford, Rutgers University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
The APS has recently launched the upgraded Digital Library, featuring improved navigation and responsive design that makes the site easier to read on a variety of screen sizes. The site also highlights interpretive galleries of APS collections created by staff and Digital Library interns. Galleries include digital projects on the Britton Chance Collection, the Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers, and the Henry Howard Houston II Papers.
