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."
Andrew Berns (2009-2010 Research Fellow) is the Melville J. Kahn fellow this year at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Following his fellowship he will take up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina.
Terry Christensen (2007-2008 Research Fellow) is currently working on a biography of the theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.
Pennsylvania Saving Fund Society Howe and Lescaze Design Archive (Accession 2062) Although acquired in 1993, the blueprints, drawings, and photographs by Howe and Lescaze, designers of Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Saving Fund Society Building, are being conserved and will be available at the end of October. The PSFS Building, completed in 1932, is generally regarded as the first International Style building in the United States.
William Pahlmann Papers (Accession 2388) William Pahlmann defined mid-century modern in domestic and public interior designs. His papers, including many sample books and other artifacts from the working life of a designer in high demand, are now available at Hagley. This project was supported in part by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Herman Schroeder Papers (Accession 2468) H. E. Schroeder was a research chemist who spent most of his career with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
Hendrick Manufacturing Company Business Records, 1861-1980 (Accession 2409). This collection, assembled by the last family president of the Hendrick Manufacturing Company, documents both the history of the company and E. E. Hendrick's career as a businessman and inventor. Orders for oil, stockholder notes, plant blueprints, insurance appraisals, letter books and issues of the employee magazine are included as well as Hendrick's patents for lubricating oil, refrigeration, metal perforation and sheet metal fabrication.
