Johns Hopkins University Special Collections and Archives recently made the following acquisitions: MS.0718: David P. Stern archives, 1973-2010 Born in Czechoslovakia, David Stern grew up in Israel, studying physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on an underground experiment on cosmic rays.
The Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia recently began to sort and catalog medical trade ephemera, reprints, and government documents that were collected in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. This collection consists of 700 boxes equating to approximately 70,000 uncatalogued items.
This spring, the New York Academy of Medicine Library acquired a German manuscript cookbook from ca. 1700, compiling several hundred recipes. The cookbook offers instructions for making dishes using game, various types of sausage, and many kinds of fish, including pike, eel, and crayfish. Sweet dishes include marzipan, ginger bread, and desserts made from almond, apple, pear, rum and dates. Also included are notes on the preparation of various waters. A charming watercolor in the Biedermeier style at the beginning of the cookbook depicts an elegantly dressed couple facing each other.
Congratulations to Lijing Jiang (2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow), two of whose papers have recently been published: “Retouching the Past with Living Things: Indigenous Species, Tradition, and Biological Research in Republican China, 1918-1937,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46, no. 2 (April 2016): 154–206, and (with Hallam Stevens) “Chinese Biotech versus International Ethics? Accounting for the China-America CRISPR Ethical Divide,” BioSocieties 10 (December 2015): 483-488.
Congratulations to Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow ), who was recently awarded the 2016 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians. The OAH Lerner-Scott Prize is given annually for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history.
Congratulations to Chris Heaney (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow). In summer 2016, Chris will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American History at Penn State University, as well as Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who is scheduled to defend her dissertation in mid-May 2016. Heidi will join the Columbia University Society of Fellows for 2016-2019 and has received the Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine at the Huntington Library for 2016-2017. Read more about her research here.
Benjamin Breen (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow) completed his PhD from UT Austin’s history department in May 2015 and took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society of Fellows at Columbia University in August. Last spring he was offered a tenure track position at UC Santa Cruz’s Department of History, which he’ll join in January of 2017, after completing the Postdoc at Columbia. His dissertation, “Tropical Transplantations,” was recently awarded UT Austin’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2016.
Katherine Arner (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow) is in her second year as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and is curating the university's very first cross-campus exhibit, "Hopkins and the Great War." Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I, this cross-campus exhibit will explore multiple facets of the relationship between Johns Hopkins University and the global conflict. It will debut in exhibit halls at the School of Medicine, School of Nursing and the Sheridan Libraries this coming fall.
Congratulations to Abe Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow), whose first book, Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History, is in press with Cambridge University Press and expected to appear in summer of 2016.
