In May 2017, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives hosted "Conversations on the History of Eugenics."
Rosanna Dent (2016-2017 Fellow in Residence) will be Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies at McGill next year, and will be assuming a position as assistant professor in the Federated Department of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Carolyn Roberts (2015-2016 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a joint appointment in History/History of Science and Medicine and African American Studies at Yale University.
Congratulations to Julia Mansfield (2013-2014 Dissertation Writing Fellow and 2014-2017 Fellow in Residence), who will be the Cassius M. Clay Fellow in the History Department, Yale University for 2017-2019.
Congratulations to AJ Blandford (2016-2017 Research Fellow), who has received a Huntington Library research fellowship.
James Risk (2015-2016 Research Fellow) recently completed his Ph.D. in history of science and technology at University of South Carolina. James will continue teaching at his alma mater, and is presenting is work at the North American Society for Oceanic History; the National Lighthouse Museum; and the Society for the History of Technology.
Melissa Charenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
Emily Merchant (2012-2013 Research Fellow) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the STS program at U.C. Davis. Emily has also published several articles: “A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915-1984,” Population and Development Review 43, no 1 (2017): 83-117; “IDS Transposer: A Users Guide,” Historical Life Course Studies 4 (2017): 59-96; “Historical Demography in the United States,” pp.
Congratulations to Tamara Kneese (2015-2016 Research Fellow), who has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Media Studies department of University of San Francisco.
Whitney Barlow Robles (2015-2016 Research Fellow) published an article about a 1755 earthquake that shook Boston in The New England Quarterly, and an essay on flattened scientific specimens and modes of observation in the book The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 (edited by Ethan W. Lasser).
