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.

Tess Lanzarotta, Yale University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

imageShana Lopes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History of Rutgers University. In 2015-16, she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium. Read more about her research during her fellowship here. Histories of early photography have routinely focused on technological developments in France, England, and the United States, seldom mentioning the geographic area we call “Germany” today.

David Ceccarelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

James Risk, University of South Carolina
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

The Consortium started awarding research fellowships in 2007. Dissertation fellowships were added in 2008, and postdoctoral fellowships in 2012. We have kept applicant statistics beginning in 2011. Those stats are summarized on this page. Applicants' demographics have no influence in the application review process. See How Fellows are Selected for a detailed description of the process.

Through a new collaboration with Temple University, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is proud to announce an online graduate course for educators beginning in 2016: Preserving American Freedom: A Primary Source Approach to Teaching American History.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for the History of Physics is pleased to host a third international conference for graduate students and early career scholars, to be held April 6-10, 2016 in Annapolis, MD.

Congratulations to James Risk, University of South Carolina, who was recently awarded the John A. and Annie Rice Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of South Carolina Department of History. Risk also won a Pam Laird Research Grant from the Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology; a Clyde Ferrell Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship from the University of South Carolina Department of History; and a Richard A. Bacas Scholarship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.

Congratulations to Emily Klancher Merchant (2012-2013 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who recently began a postdoc at Dartmouth College, in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Department of History. Merchant completed her PhD in History at the University of Michigan earlier this year.

Albert Einstein, Holograph letter to Michael Polanyi, 30 December 1914
Albert Einstein, Holograph letter to Michael Polanyi, 30 December 1914. Image courtesy of the University of Toronto.