News and Notes
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College of Physicians of Philadelphia Processes 19th and 20th Century Materials
April 27, 2016
The Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia recently began to sort and catalog medical trade ephemera, reprints, and government documents that were collected in the
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New York Academy of Medicine Acquires 17th-century Cookbook and Offers New Finding Aids to Researchers
April 27, 2016
This spring, the New York Academy of Medicine Library acquired a German manuscript cookbook from ca. 1700, compiling several hundred recipes.
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Lijing Jiang's papers published in Historical Studies and BioSocieties
April 25, 2016
Congratulations to Lijing Jiang (2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow), two of whose papers have recently been published: “Retouching the Past with Living Things: Indigenous Species, Tradition, a
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Susan Hanket Brandt wins OAH's Lerner-Scott Prize
April 21, 2016
Congratulations to Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow ), who was recently awarded the 2016 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
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Chris Heaney appointed Assistant Professor at Penn State and Fellow at McNeil Center for Early American Studies
April 20, 2016
Congratulations to Chris Heaney (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow).
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Heidi Hausse receives fellowship at Huntington, joins Columbia Society of Fellows
April 20, 2016
Congratulations to Heidi Hausse (2014-2015 Dissertation Writing Fellow), who is scheduled to defend her dissertation in mid-May 2016.
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Benjamin Breen wins dissertation award, accepts Assistant Professorship at UC Santa Cruz
April 19, 2016
Benjamin Breen (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow) completed his PhD from UT Austin’s history department in May 2015 and took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society of Fellows at Columbia
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Katherine Arner curates exhibition on World War I
April 19, 2016
Katherine Arner (2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow) is in her second year as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and is curating the un
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Abe Gibson's book in press with Cambridge
April 19, 2016
Congratulations to Abe Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow), whose first book,
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A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska
April 19, 2016
Tess Lanzarotta is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Yale University.