Deadline has been extended to April 1, 2012.
The University Archives and Records Center of the University of Pennsylvania is proud to announce the online publication of Medical History at the University of Pennsylvania (http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/subjguides/medical_history/med_hist_intro.html). Created by Senior Archivist Joseph-James Ahern and edited by the Director of University Archives Mark Frazier Lloyd, this guide is designed to assist researchers in accessing the Archives' holdings related to Medical History.
The History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania will host the Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS) from March 15-17, 2013. This event will bring nine graduate students from around the country to Penn for a series of events, chief among them a day-long collaborative workshop of an interdisciplinary group of article-length papers. There will also be a keynote talk delivered by Dr.
The Center and its consortium partners are delighted to welcome Drexel University as a new member. Drexel's addition to the consortium was expedited by its 2011 affiliation with the Academy of Natural Sciences, a founding member of the consortium. The University offers a master's degree in Science, Technology and Society and is home to about a dozen faculty working on the history of science, technology and medicine as well as related contemporary social and political issues. Several of Drexel's faculty have already been very active in the Center's activities.
The Center's recent newsletter has news of our fellowships, events and collections.
The History of Science Society (HSS) has awarded the Nathan Reingold Prize to Rebecca Onion, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, for a chapter in her dissertation written in the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The chapter was titled “Thrills, Chills and Science: Home Laboratories and the Making of the American Boy, 1918-1941”. The prize, established in 1955, honors graduate student essays on the history of science and its cultural influences.
Simon Thode, Johns Hopkins University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow
Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Research Fellow) is currently a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written several forthcoming pieces including an entry for The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History, part of a new twelve-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American History, and a book review for The Historian.
Kurt MacMillan (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a fellowship from the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College to participate in the 2013 Humanities Institute, "Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950."
Chris Heaney (2011-2012 Research Fellow) and Ben Breen (2011-2012 Research Fellow) are starting an online journal of archival and narrative history, The Appendix.
Joanna Radin (2010-2011 Dissertation Writing Fellow) is Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and of History at Yale University. Publication news includes a forthcoming article in a special issue of Social Studies of Science for which she is a guest editor.
Kurt MacMillan (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a fellowship from the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College to participate in the 2013 Humanities Institute, "Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950."
