The Center proudly announces the publication of North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration, edited by Susan A. Kaplan and Robert McCracken Peck by the American Philosophical Society (Lightning Rod Press, volume 8, 2013). This is the first book that has resulted from a conference jointly hosted by the Center. This conference was cosponsored with The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, The American Philosophical Society and The Peary-MacMilan Artic Museum and Artic Studies Center (Bowdoin College).

Donald Opitz, DePaul University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

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The Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology will hold its 49th meeting on April 4-5, 2014, at the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Center offers short term Research Fellowships, nine-month Dissertation Writing Fellowships and a Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars in the history of science, technology and medicine. More information and online application here.

James Poskett, University of Cambridge
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Lijing Jiang, Arizona State University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Kathryn Irving, Yale University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Jeremy Blatter, Harvard University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

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Euclid, Elements of Geometrie (London, 1570), trans. Henry Billingsley