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.
Tess Lanzarotta, Yale University
2015 to 2016 Research Fellow
Shana 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.
