The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has recently processed the diaries of Deforest P. Willard, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon from Philadelphia who served in the U.S. Army during World War I in Britain and France, and the records of the American Society for Testing Materials, an organization founded in 1898 that helped to develop industry standards for steel used in rail construction. More information can be found here.
Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Roberto Chauca Tapia, who has been awareded a Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship at John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, for his project, “Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia.” He will begin his research at Brown in June 2015. Roberto Chauca Tapia was a Dissertation Writing Fellow at the Consortium in 2014-2015. Read more about his work here.
Congratulations to Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who has won a Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2015-2016. Her project is entitled Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700. Read more about Heidi's research while a fellow of the Consortium here.
Cara Fallon, Harvard University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
The Consortium is pleased to announce its Research Fellows, Dissertation Writing Fellows, and NEH Postdoctoral Fellow for 2015-2016.
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Malherek
George Washington University
From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America
Dissertation Writing Fellows
The University of Pennsylvania is pleased to host the 13th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine on October 16 – 17, 2015 in Philadelphia. JAS Med is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. The meeting was founded in 2002 to foster a collegial intellectual community that provides a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate student research.
Since the late nineteenth century, scientists have devised an ever-increasing number of tasks, tests, and trials to understand the body, the senses, the self, the mind, and the connections between them. Psychologists, physiologists, neuroscientists, and others have made the relation between functions of the brain and individual personalities as well as social behaviors a core aspect of their research.
Jonson Miller, Drexel University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Congratulations to James Poskett (2013-2014 Research Fellow), who will be taking up the Adrian Research Fellowship in “Darwin and the Humanities” at Darwin College, UK starting on October 1st, 2015. Poskett’s article on the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839) was recently accepted for publication with History of Science.
The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania) recently acquired 58 manuscript codices from the library of the Duke of Northumberland. The manuscripts were originally collected by General Charles Rainsford (1728-1809), an 18th century gentleman scientist, and cover subjects such as alchemy, astrology, Cabbala and Tarot. A portion of the collection is comprised of texts copied or acquired by Rainsford from the Jesuit College at Naples at its dissolution in the late 18th century.
