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).
Congratulations to Chris Jones (2008-2009 Research Fellow), who was awarded tenure at Arizona State University as well as an ACLS fellowship for the project, Immaterial Growth: Energy and Economics in the American Century.
The Society for the History of Technology is now a Consortium member.
Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired Caroline Lucretia Herschel’s own copy of her Catalogue of Stars (1798) with notes and annotations in her hand, and Libra Astronomica, y Philosophica (1690), by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation has completed processing the papers of American physicist, inventor and electronics engineer, L. Arthur D’Asaro (1927-2013). The collection spans 91 linear feet and documents D’Asaro’s broad research and development activities at Bell Laboratories and Princeton Optronics, Inc.
IsisCB Explore is the new open-access search interface for the History of Science Society's ISIS Current Bibliography. It includes nearly 200,000 interlinked bibliographic citations to books, chapters, articles, dissertations, and reviews from 1974 to present.
Access to IsisCB Explore is available through the Consortium's Collections page or through http://isiscb.org/explore.
The Consortium is very pleased to welcome the scholars who will join the Consortium as fellows for the 2017-2018 academic year.
