News and Notes
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Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940
August 24, 2016
Sarah Sussman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2015-2016 she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.
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Planter’s Paradise: Nature and Culture on Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
August 11, 2016
Lawrence Kessler is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of History at Temple University. In 2015-16, he was a Dissertation Fellow of the Consortium.
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From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America
July 26, 2016
Joseph Malherek received his Ph.D. from George Washington University. In 2015-2016, he was the NEH Postdoctoral Fellow of the Consortium.
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Apothecary, Surgeon, Doctress, Slave: African and European Medicine in the British Slave Trade
July 12, 2016
Carolyn Roberts is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University. In 2015-2016, she was a Dissertation Writing Fellow of the Consortium.
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Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985
June 20, 2016
Lisa Ruth Rand is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015-16, she was a Dissertation Fellow of the Consortium.
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Douglas O'Reagan takes up Postdoc at MIT
May 9, 2016
The Consortium wishes to congratulate Douglas O’Reagan (2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow) on his new post.
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Ruth Rand publishes RAND Corporation document, accepts Mellon Postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 6, 2016
Congratulations to Lisa Ruth Rand (2015-2016 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who recently accepted a 2016-2018 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Call for Abstracts: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 2016
May 3, 2016
September 30 - October 1, 2016 Columbia University, Princeton University, and The New York Academy of Medicine, are pleased to host the 14th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
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Dora Vargha awarded AAHM's J. Worth Estes Prize
May 1, 2016
Congratulations to Dora Vargha (2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow, 2015-2016 Research Fellow), who has recently been awarded the 2016 J.
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New Acquisitions at Johns Hopkins University Special Collections and Archives
April 27, 2016
Johns Hopkins University Special Collections and Archives recently made the following acquisitions: MS.0718: David P.