The Historical Society of Pennsylvania recently made the following acquisitions: Dr. Robert Howland Chase papers, 1826-1926 (Collection 3733) Summary An expert in psychology, Massachusetts native Dr. Robert Howland Chase worked at a number of facilities in Pennsylvania, including the State Hospital for the Insane in Norristown and the Friends' Hospital in Frankford, Philadelphia. Description Dr. Robert Howland Chase was a psychologist during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in Massachusetts but educated at Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Philadelphia has proven an auspicious base for our consortium with its wealth of archival resources and a large community of engaged scholars. With this strong foundation, we have already:
Abraham Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow) has had two book chapters accepted for publication: "Beasts of Burden: Feral Burros and the American West," in The Historical Animal, edited by Susan Nance (Syracuse University Press, 2015), and "Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology" (co-written with Michael Ruse) in A Companion to the History of American Science, edited by Mark Largent (Wiley, 2015).
Benjamin Breen (2011-2012 Research Fellow) is now on a Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship to complete his Ph.D. at UT Austin, and is also a 2014-2016 Mellon-Rare Book School Fellow in Critical Bibliography. Last year he published "No Man Is an Island: Knowledge Networks, Early Modern Globalization, and George Psalmanazar's Formosa," in The Journal of Early Modern History and "'The Elks Are Our Horses': Animals and Domestication in the New French Borderlands" in the Journal of Early American History.
Congratulations to Christopher Willoughby (2014-2015 Research Fellow), who was recently awarded the Waring Historical Library's W. Curtis Worthington Jr. Prize for the best graduate student essay in the history of the health sciences for his paper, "Running Away from Drapetomania: Rethinking Samuel Cartwright." Willoughby is currently on a National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow) is working on her dissertation this year as a Fellow at the Consortium. In spring 2014 her article entitled "European Theories and Local Therapies: Mordexi and Galenism in the East Indies, 1500-1700," was published in the Journal of Early Modern History. She recently presented a paper, "To Dismember or Not to Dismember: The Social Process of Amputation in Early Modern Surgery," at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in New Orleans.She continues to co-chair the Early Modern Workshop at Princeton University.
Jeffrey Brideau (2012-2013 Dissertation Writing Fellow) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Bond Rather Than A Barrier? Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway," at the University of Maryland in May 2014. He now holds a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Water Resources, at the United States Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. He will also be teaching in the STS program at Virginia Tech for spring 2015.
Supported by Drexel University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Elizabeth Searcy, Brown University
2014 to 2015 Research Fellow
Congratulations to Lijing Jiang (2012-2013 Research Fellow), who has been appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, starting in December 2014.
