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.
Erin Corrales-Diaz, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
By Heidi Hausse and Abe Gibson
On the morning of September 24, 2014, a crowd of enthusiastic scholars descended on the historic Jefferson Building in Old City Philadelphia to take part in the seventh annual Introductory Symposium, hosted by the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science. The event provided historians of science with an exciting opportunity to share their research with likeminded individuals, and to discuss potential synergies in a congenial atmosphere over food and drinks.
Elisabeth Berry Drago, University of Delaware
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Congratulations to Katherine Arner (2011-2012 Research Fellow), who has just begun a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Arner completed and defending her dissertation, "The Malady of Revolutions: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1828," on June 27, 2014.
Congratulations to Kurt MacMillan (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who has been appointed full-time lecturer in the Humanities Core Program at the University of California, Irvine for 2014-2015.
