Congratulations to Jeannie Shinozuka (2014-2015 Research Fellow), who has recently been granted a 2014-2016 Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Shinozuka published an article on Japanese beetles and Japanese immigrant gardeners in the December 2013 issue of American Quarterly.
Rebecca Onion was a postdoctoral fellow during 2012-2014. Her book, tentatively titled Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Public Science in the United States, is now under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.
Teasel Muir-Harmony of MIT was a Dissertation Writing Fellow in 2013-2014. She has been appointed to a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.
Julia Mansfield of Stanford University was a Dissertation Writing Fellow for 2013-2014. She has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2014-2015 from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Mansfield will be spending this fellowship year at the Center.
Brandon Zimmerman, Independent Scholar
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Jason Kauffman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Emily Handlin, Brown University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
What is the current status of our privacy online and how did we arrive at a situation of ubiquitous tracking and surveillance? Helen Nissenbaum of NYU and Matt Jones of Columbia discussed these question at a public event at Drexel University. Teasel Muir-Harmony, Dissertation Writing Fellow at the Center, provides a brief summary of the event.
by Elizabeth Bennett, Librarian for History and History of Science, Princeton University
In 2012, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania purchased the papers of veterinarian George F. Parry and his family. George F. Parry (1838-1886) of Bucks County, PA, was one of the first veterinarians to receive professional veterinary training in the United States. He graduated from the Boston Veterinary Institute in 1859, served as a veterinary surgeon with the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War, and owned a farm and conducted a private practice in Newtown, Pennsylvania, from shortly after the war until his death at age 48. George married Sarah E.
