Fellowships

2023 to 2024

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  Evan Bonney

  Centre for History (CHSP), Sciences Po

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Forests and Power in the United States Empire, 1891-1914

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  Peter Braden

  Ph.D., Department of History, University of California-San Diego

  2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow

  Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and the Making of the Life Sciences in China, 1940-1980

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  Lu Chen

  Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Alternative Road to Alma-Ata: Social Medicine and Socialist Medicine Roots of Primary Health Care from the Third World

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  Laura Clerx

  Ph.D. Candidate, History, Boston College

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850

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  Al Coppola

  John Jay College, CUNY

  2023 to 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

  Enlightenment Visibilities

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  Julia Cummiskey

  Department of History, University of Tennessee Chattanooga

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Selling Wellness: Marketing Materials, Behaviors, and Services for Improved Health in Modern Africa

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  Warren Dennis

  PhD candidate in History, Boston University

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  "Politically Inspired Scarcity": Energy and Masculinity in the Post-OAPEC Era

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  Isabela Dornelas

  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Follow the Thread: a comparative history of absorbable materials in suture

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  Suvendu Ghatak

  Department of English, University of Florida

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Malaria and the Political Ecology of Development in Twentieth-century South Asia

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  Minseok Jang

  University at Albany, State University of New York

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911

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  Heewon Kim

  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Coding Actions, Making Faces: Understanding the Human Through Faces 1960 – 2000

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  Shirley Kinney

  Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

  2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Untangling the Manuscripts and Medicine of the Pseudo-Apuleius Group

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  Alexei Kojevnikov

  Department of History, University of British Columbia

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Knabenphysik: Cultural Crises, Postdoctoral Revolt, and Social Contexts of the Quantum Revolution

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  Oliver Lazarus

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life

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  Jamie Marsella

  PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  "The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930

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  Catherine Mas

  Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida International University

  2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Sweet Captivity: A Transnational History of Primatology and Culture

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  Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

  Assistant Professor, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Chasing the Magic Bullet: This History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

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  Derek Nelson

  Ph.D., Department of History, University of New Hampshire

  2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow

  Reexamining Historical Introductions of Marine Wood-Boring Species from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology

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  Donald L. Opitz

  Associate Professor, DePaul University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)

  2023 to 2024 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

  Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920

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  Bican Polat

  Humanities, New York University Shanghai

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Adjustment, Mental Hygiene, and Child Study: The Advent of the Personality and Culture Perspective in American Social Science

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  Jennifer Reiss

  PhD candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

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  Chelsea Schields

      Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine

  2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Charged Currents: Electric Power in the Caribbean

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  Y. L. Lucy Wang

  PhD candidate in Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894-1949

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  Jiemin Tina Wei

  PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950

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  Angela Xia

  PhD candidate in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  The Rest of Life: Hospice, Aging, and the Expansion of Palliative Care in America, 1971-2000

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  Che Yeun

  PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University 

  2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

  The Finishing Touch: Cleaning and Feeling Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970

2022 to 2023

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  Derek Baron

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

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  Barrie Blatchford

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Unnatural Selection: Animal Acclimatization, Nation-Building, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1865-1970

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  Camilla Cannon

  Ph.D. Student, Department of American Studies, George Washington University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Standard: The Institutionalization of Transgender Medicine

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  Leo Chu

  Ph.D. Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Harvesting Diversity: Ecology, Agriculture, and the Remaking of Development, 1970-2010

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  Nayanika Ghosh

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

  2022 to 2023 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

  Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science

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  F. Eliza Glaze

  Professor, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University

  2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Medicine in the Making: Reading Hippocrates and Galen in Early Salerno and Monte Cassino

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  Benjamin Goossen

  Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

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  Anthony Greco

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Engineering Egypt: Science, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Empire

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  Holly Gruntner

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William & Mary

  2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow

  Fertile Ground: Kitchen Gardens and Knowledge Production in Early America

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  Hiro Hirai

  Research Associate, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University

  2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Science and Medicine

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  Rana Hogarth

  Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenic Race-Crossing Studies and the Legacies of Slavery

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  Zsuzsanna Ihar

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Arming the Field: The Deployment of Agricultural Science in the Context of War and in its Aftermath (1990-2020)

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  Bethany Johnson

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina

  2022 to 2023 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

  In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922

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  Adam Johnson

  Ph.D., Department of History, University of Michigan

  2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest

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  Judith Kaplan

  Ph.D., National Science Foundation Research Scholar

  2022 to 2023 Fellow in Residence

  Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research

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  Julia Marino

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Postindustrial Crusade for Technological and Economic Competitiveness

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  Margaret Maurer

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow

  Everyday Alchemy

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  Julia Menzel

  Ph.D. Candidate,  Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Enigmatic Nature: Absent Laws and Hidden Objects in Theoretical Physics, 1967-2004

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  Sarah Naramore

  Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwest Missouri State University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930

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  Matthew Newsom Kerr

  Associate Professor, Department of History, Santa Clara University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Re-Visualizing Vaccination: The British and American “Anti-Anti-Vaccinationist” Movement, 1890-1914.

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  Udodiri Okwandu

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Transgressive Motherhood: Diagnostic Privilege, Race, and Maternal Mental Illness in American Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, 1890 - 1970

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  Marianne Quijano

  Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Florida

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  A Primordial Whiteness: Science, Religion, and Race in Twentieth-Century Panama

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  Nicole Rehnberg

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  White Roots, Redwoods: Racializing Conservation in Germany and the US, 1920-1945

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  Boyd Ruamcharoen

  Ph.D. Candidate, Programn in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Tropical Preservation: Media Technologies and American Power in the Postcolonial Tropics

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  Claire Sabel

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Rare Earth: Gemstones Geohistories and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe c. 1600-1750

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  Sam Schirvar

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Manufacturing Self-Determination: Cold War Electronics in Tribal Development, Black Empowerment, and Prison Industry

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  Aimee Slaughter

  Ph.D., Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota

  2022 to 2023 Emanuel Fellow

  Making Atomic History in New Mexico

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  Matthew Soleiman

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, San Diego

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  The Person in Pain: A Genealogy of Bodily Experience, 1906-1999

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  Hannah Srajer

  Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Yale University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  The Torture Cure: Behavior Modification and Rehabilitative Logics in the American Carceral State, 1960-1990

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  Gina Surita

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970

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  Chang Xu

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis

  2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

  Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and Qing Empire, 1640-1800

2021 to 2022

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  Charis Boke

  Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College

  2021 to 2022 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

  A Dose of Herbalism: Evidence and Efficacy in North American Medical History

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  Richard Del Rio

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Behavioral Science and Social Medicine, Florida State University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Dope Town: The Drug Markets of Chicago, 1850-1940

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  Jennifer Eaglin

  Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Going Nuclear: The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry

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  Martha Espinosa

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Duke University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  The Science of Family Planning: Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge

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  Paul Forman

  Curator Emeritus, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

  2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

  An Empirico-Critical Examination of “Vienna Indeterminism”

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  Michelle Frank

  M.A. Student, Biography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  The Daughter Particle: Chien-Shiung Wu and Twentieth Century Physics  

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  Jean Franzino

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Dis-Union: Disability, Narrative, and the American Civil War

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  Ryan Hearty

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  The Pollution Experts: Water and Environmental Engineering in the United States, 1948 to 1990

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  Kelsey Henry

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Developmental Humanisms: Black Histories of Developmental Science and Biomedicine in the Twentieth-Century U.S.

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  Matthew Hoffarth

  Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

  2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

  The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019

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  Melanie Kiechle

  Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Desensitizing Health

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  Hannah LeBlanc

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Nutrition for National Defense: US Food Science in World War II and the Cold War

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  Mia Levenson

  Ph.D. Student, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Tufts University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Eugenics and the Politics of Scientific Performance

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  Jess Libow

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Emory University

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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  Marcelo Lima Loreto

  Ph.D., History of Science and Technology and Epistemology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Brazilian Genetics and Politics during the Cold War (1940-1950s)

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  Katherine McLeod

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University

  2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

  How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology

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  Sara Meloni

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Radical Science Collectives between Italy and the US in the Long 1960s

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  Emily Merchant

  Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Molecular Eugenics

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  Kate Mulry

  Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Bakersfield

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  “‘it nourisheth the Child in the Womb’: Chocolate, Reproduction, and Colonization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica”

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  Nic John Ramos

  Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, Drexel University

  2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Policing Health: Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986

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  Jesse Ritner

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  'White Gold': Weather, Technology, and the Rise of the North American Ski Industry, 1900-Present

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  Lauren Ruhrold

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  No Standard Definition: The Medical Device Industry and Its Social and Cultural History

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  Leah Samples

  Ph.D. Candidate, History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

  2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow

  Visual Citizenry: The State, Technology, and Blindness in New Deal America and Beyond

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  Henry Schmidt

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Social Scientists, Industrial Evolution, and the Study of Artefacts in Progressive Era America

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  Heather Vrana

  Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

  2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

  Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America, 1954-1996

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  Patrick Walsh

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

  Raised from the Living: Making Therapy from Biology, 1880s-1940s

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  Nicole Welk-Joerger

  High Meadows Environmental Institute Fellow, Princeton University

  2021 to 2022 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

  Rumen Nation: An Environmental History of the United States

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  Madeline Williams

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

  2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow

   Challenging the Ableist State: Blind Organizing Through Technology and Welfare in the Era of the American Eugenics Movement, 1865-1940

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  Matthew Wisnioski

  Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech

  2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of Science Education

2020 to 2021

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  Maria Paula Andrade Diniz de Araujo

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  The State of the Poor: State Building and Public Health in Modern Brazil, 1834-1920

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  Eve Buckley

  Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Hunger Politics during the Early Cold War: Intellectuals from the Global South Contest the Overpopulation Paradigm, 1948-1973

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  Sally Chengji Xing

  Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, Columbia University

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  “Pacific Crossings”: Paul Monroe, John Dewey and the Architecture of Modern Chinese Scientific Research and Education, 1913-1949

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  Kerri Clement

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Wonderland’s Festering Wound: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, and Brucellosis in Twentieth-Century Yellowstone and Montana Borderlands

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  Matthew Foreman

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Science and Security: Constructing the Modern Chinese Citizen, 1900-1966

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  Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

  Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Internal Economies: Air Conditioning, Industrial Environments, and Working Bodies, 1890-1940

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  Hongdeng Gao

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

  2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow

   Migration, Medicine and Power: How Chinese New Yorkers Gained Better Access to Health Care, 1949-1999

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  Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Avocado Landscapes: The Rise and Expansion of the U.S.-Mexico Avocado Industry, 1910-2000

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  Matthew Hoffarth

  Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine 

  2020 to 2021 Fellow in Residence

  The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019

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  Judith Kaplan

  Ph.D., Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Body

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  David Korostyshevsky

  Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Disciplining the Drunkard: The Medico-Legal History of Habitual Drunkenness in Nineteenth-Century America

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  Justin Linds

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, New York University

  2020 to 2021 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

  Rot Before Microbes: Creating Knowledge and Value in the Early Modern Atlantic

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  Michael McGovern

  Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Princeton University

  2020 to 2021 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

  Just in Numbers? Statistics and Civil Rights in Postwar America

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  Katherine McLeod

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University

  2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow

  How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology

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  Joris Mercelis

  Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  The Long Shadow of Kodak: Corporate Knowledge Empires and the Internationalization of Science

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  Hillary Nunn

  Professor, Department of English, University of Akron

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Domestic Medicine on the Move: Household Mobility and Early Modern Recipe Collections

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  Claire Oliver

  Ph.D. Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Everywhere at Once: Meteorology, Communications, and the Construction of Global Climate, 1865-1900

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  Kelly O`Donnell

  Ph.D., Department of History, Yale University

  2020 to 2021 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Hippocratic Vows: How the Doctor's Wife Transformed American Medicine

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  Alexander Parry

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Risky Homes: Domestic Accidents from the Progressive Era to the Consumer Movement

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  James Rick

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William and Mary

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Cultivating Machines: Capitalism and Technology in Midwestern Agriculture, 1830-1900

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  Tillmann Taape

  Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambrdige

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Distillation: Craft Knowledge, Medicine, and Chemistry in Early Modern Europe

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  Rachel Walker

  Assistant Professor,  Department of History, University of Hartford

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America

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  Arnaud Zimmern

  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame

  2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

  Touching Kings, Drinking Gold: Crises of Sovereignty in Jacobean Medicine

2019 to 2020

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  Ellen Abrams

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Making Mathematics American: Representation, Labor, and Engagement during the Growth of American Mathematics, 1894-1945

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  Hannah Anderson

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America

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  Ekaterina Babintseva

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

  2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

  Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age

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  Howard Chiang

  Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Translators of the Soul: From the First Chinese Psychoanalyst to the Rise of Transcultural Psychiatry

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  Marcos Cueto

  Professor, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  A History of Global AIDS and Health Activism in Brazil

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  Ryan Dahn

  Ph.D., Department of Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago

  2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

  Nazi Entanglement: Pascual Jordan, Quantum Mechanics, and the Legacy of the Third Reich

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  Menglu Gao

  Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literary Studies and English, Northwestern University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  The Lacquered Chinese Box: Opium, Addiction, and the Fantasy of Empire in Nineteenth-century British Literature

• Kit Heintzman

  Lecturer, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Medicine Unbridled: Veterinarians and Multispecies Statecraft, 1750-1815

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  Alani Hicks-Bartlett

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Medieval Studies, Brown University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  The Cure Gone Awry: Gender, Dis/ability, and the Ailing Empire in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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  Johanna Hood

  Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Vital Fluid: Evolving Social, Moral and Economic Values of Blood and Cadavers in China

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  Lawrence Kessler

  Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

  2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

  Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi

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  Charles Kollmer

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbes, Microbiologists, and the Chemical Order of Nature

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  Christa Kuljian

  Research Associate, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Persistent Biological Myths: Fifty Years of Creating a Feminist Approach to Science and Technology Studies (STS), 1969-2019

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  Xiao Li

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Southern Illinois University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  "A New Woman”: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in the U.S. and China, 1864-1934

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  Diana Louis

  Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the 19th Century

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  Zachary Mann

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Literature and Media Studies, University of Southern California

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Computing History

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  Patrícia Martins Marcos

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Political Medicine: Science Sovereignty and the Government of Imperial Bodies in the Portuguese Atlantic (1715-1818)

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  Cristina Nigro

  PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

  2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow

  The Active Brain - A History of the Electrophysiological and Molecular Study of Cognition in the 20th Century

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  Megan Piorko

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Georgia State University 

  2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow

  Chymical Collections: Seventeenth-Century Textual Transmutations in the Work of Arthur Dee and Elias Ashmole

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  Aditya Ramesh

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Vital Cities: Public Health, Non-Human Life and Infrastructure in South Asian Cities, 1890-1970

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  Katherine Reinhart

  Ph.D., History of Art, University of Cambridge

  2019 to 2020 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV’s France

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  Alexis Rider

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  A Melting Fossil: Ice, Life, and Time in the Cryosphere, 1840-1970

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  Emma Schroeder

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maine

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Women's Transnational Technological Activism and the Origins of Ecological Domesticity, 1960-1989

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  Dorin Smith

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Brown University

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel

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  Justin Tackett

  Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of English, Stanford University

  2019 to 2020 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

  Poetry and Sound Technology, 1816-1914; Hardy and Radio; Poetics and the Prehistory of Silent Film, c.1880-c.1930

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  Rebecca Woods

  Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

  2019 to 2020 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

  Body of Animal, Body of Evidence: Paleolithic Remains and the History of Science

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  Sarah Xia Yu

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

  2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

  Healthy and Hygienic Publics in Republican China, 1912--1949

2018 to 2019

• 

  Elaine Ayers

  Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science, Princeton University

  2018 to 2019 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

  Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics

• 

  Ekaterina Babintseva

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

  2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

  Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age

• 

  Edward Barnet

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Stanford University

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Homo Musicus: The Early Modern Musical Science of the Human Being

• 

  Jaime Benchimol

  Senior Researcher, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective.

• 

  Geoff Bil

  Ph.D. New York Botanical Gardens

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

• 

  Scottie Hale Buehler

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects

• 

  Chelsea Chamberlain

  Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Diagnostic Clinics and the Problem of Human Defect in Progressive America

• 

  Benjamin Cohen

  Associate Professor, Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies, Layfayette College 

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  The Future of Agriculture: A Technological History

• 

  Jessica Dandona

  Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1914

• 

  Theodora Dryer

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

  2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

  Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961

• 

  Alexandra Fair

  M.A. Candidate, Department of History, Miami University

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Eugenic Expectations: How the Medical Economy Changed and Sustained Eugenic Ideology in Post-WWII America

• 

  Ellery Foutch

  Assistant Professor, American Studies, Middlebury College

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  The Artists' Models: Natural History Specimens and their Illustrations

• 

  Stephen Hausmann

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1850-1992

• 

  Ashley Inglehart

  Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University

  2018 to 2019 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries

• 

  Jordan Katz

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

  2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

  Jewish Midwives, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800

• 

  Lawrence Kessler

  Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University   Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

  2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

  Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi

• 

  Paul Mitchell

  Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

  2018 to 2019 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

  Human Remainders: the Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection

• 

  Vivek Neelakantan

  Ph.D. 

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Southeast Asia and the Beginnings of the Primary Health Paradigm, 1948-1978

• 

  Ayah B Nuriddin

  Ph.D Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

  2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

  Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles, 1890-1970 

• 

  Lisa Ruth Rand

  Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

  2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

  Space Junk: An Environmental History of Waste in Orbit

• 

  Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Elusive Evidence, Enduring Fluidity: Historical Trajectories of the “Mongolian Spot”as a Marker of Race

• 

  Neeraja Sankaran

  Ph.D.

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  A Longue-Durée Microhistory of RSV at the Rockefeller: The Institutional Life of an In-House Discovery.

• 

  Michelle Smiley

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr

  2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

  Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

• 

  Sean M Smith

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rice University

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglo-Atlantic

• 

  Alana L Staiti

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995

• 

  Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes

  Professor for the History of Science, Department of History, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  The Genetics of the Brazilian Northeastern Population, 1950-1980: Heredity, Race and Culture

• 

  Laurel J Waycott

  Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Patterns of Creation: Organic Form in the Science of Life, 1880-1930

• 

  Kazuki Yamada

  Ph.D. Candidate, University of Exeter and University of Queensland

  2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

  Later Life Sexuality and its Genealogies of Knowledge: The Sciences of Sex and Ageing, c. 1870 – 1980.

2017 to 2018

• 

  Kevin Baker

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

  2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow

  World Processors: Computer Modeling, Global Environmentalism, and the Birth of Sustainable Development

• 

  Joanna Behrman

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Higher Education in Physics

• 

  Nicole Belolan

  Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861

• 

  Paul Braff

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Enthroning Health: The National Negro Health Movement and the Fight to Control Public Health Policy in the African American Community, 1915-1950

• 

  Theodora Dryer

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

  2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow

   Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961

• 

  Kathrinne Duffy

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Brown University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Antebellum America

• 

  Kate Grauvogel

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones and Blood Clots, 1784 -1963

• 

  Martha Groppo

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939

• 

  Nabeel Hamid

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy

• 

  Alma Igra

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

   Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941

• 

  Jonathan Jones

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Binghamton University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  “A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

• 

  Lawrence Kessler

  Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  Planter's Paradise: Environment, Empire, and the Making of Hawaiʻi's Sugarcane Plantation System

• 

  Joseph Martin

  National Science Foundation Research Scholar

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University

• 

  Emelin Miller

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Empire of Ice: Arctic Natural History and British Visions of Nature, 1650-1800

• 

  Timothy Minella

  Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century

• 

  Taylor Moore

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semicolonial Upper Egypt (1875-1960)

• 

  Lauren Rosati

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933

• 

  Michael Sappol

  Ph.D., Research Fellow, Uppsala University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, showmanship & the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950

• 

  Aprajita Sarcar

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Queen’s University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77

• 

  Adam Shapiro

  National Science Foundation Research Scholar

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  An Unfit Darwinist: Disability, Slander and America's First Evolution Trial

• 

  Michelle Smiley

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr

  2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

  Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

• 

  Daniel Vandersommers

  Ph.D., Department of History, The Ohio State University

  2017 to 2018 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

• 

  Yuan Yi

  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

  2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

  Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Textile Factories in Early Twentieth-Century China

2016 to 2017

• 

  Leah Aronowsky

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Configuring "Life" in the Biosphere, 1950-2000

• 

  George Aumoithe

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965-2000

• 

  Sarah Basham

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of British Columbia

  2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

  Rethinking the Ontology of Chinese Encyclopedias: The Life and Times of Treatise on Military Preparedness (1621)

• 

  AJ Blandford

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys

• 

  Nicholas Bonneau

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Notre Dame

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Unspeakable Loss, Distempered Awakenings: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765

• 

  Melissa Charenko

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  "The Science of Prophecy"? The Role of the Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916-2015

• 

  Rosanna Dent

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

  Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015

• 

  Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

  Ph.D. Student School of Architecture University of Texas, Austin

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Inside Out: Office Buildings and the Hybrid Nature of Space, 1870-1930

• 

  Louis Gerdelan

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Calamitous knowledge: understanding disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic worlds, 1666-1755

• 

  Lawrence Kessler

  Ph.D. Department of History Temple University

  2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

  Planter’s Paradise: Nature and Culture on Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations

• 

  Alison Laurence

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  An Unnatural History of Deep Time: Extinct Animals and the Politics of Place in the Modern United States

• 

  Julia Mansfield

  Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

  2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

  The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

• 

  Joseph Martin

  National Science Foundation Research Scholar

  2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

  Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University

• 

  Christine Peralta

  Ph.D. Student Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Labor Pains: Working Class Women's Access to Healthcare in the Philippines, 1898-1950

• 

  Alicia Puglionesi

  Ph.D. History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Johns Hopkins University

  2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  The Astonishment of Experience: Americans and Psychical Research, 1885-1935

• 

  Tricia Ross

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Duke University

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany

• 

  Michelle Smiley

  Ph.D. Student History of Art Bryn Mawr

  2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

  Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

• 

  Angela Smith

  Adjunct Assistant Professor of History Austin Community College Ph.D., History University of Texas, Austin

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  The Romantic Roots of Evolution in Scotland

• 

  Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar

  Ph.D. Student Department of History, El Colegio de México

  2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

  Miners, Oilmen and Chemists: Globalization and Technology in Mexican Sulphur Industry (1933-1972)

2015 to 2016

• 

  David Ceccarelli

  Ph.D. Candidate Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences University of Rome Tor Vergata

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Between Cope and Osborn: the Role of the American Biological Discourse on the Public Debate on Evolution

• 

  Wendy Gonaver

  Ph.D. American Studies Program College of William and Mary

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  The Peculiar Institution: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry

• 

  Phillip Honenberger

  Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University

  2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence

  The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages

• 

  Lawrence Kessler

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University

  2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

  Planter’s Paradise: Agriculture, Ecology, and Science in Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations, 1778-1920

• 

  Tamara Kneese

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains

• 

  Tess Lanzarotta

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska

• 

  Jongmin Lee

  Lecturer Engineering and Society University of Virginia

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Rayon: Poisoned History of Empowerment

• 

  Shana Lopes

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History Rutgers University

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  “The Fraternity throughout the World”: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890

• 

  Joseph Malherek

  Department of American Studies George Washington University

  2015 to 2016 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

  From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America

• 

  Julia Mansfield

  Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

  2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence

  The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

• 

  Alexander Moffett

  Ph.D. Candidate CHSS / Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  The Circulation of Medical Knowledge: Collective Investigation, 1860-1920

• 

  Lisa Ruth Rand

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

  Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985

• 

  Miriam Rich

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science Harvard University

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Race and Defective Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Science, Medicine, and Law

• 

  James Risk

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of South Carolina

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce, and the State in American Seaports, 1790 - 1860

• 

  Carolyn Roberts

  Ph.D. Candidate African and African American Studies Harvard University

  2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

  Surgeon, Fetish Woman, Apothecary, Slave: The Medical Culture, Labor, and Economy of the British Slave Trade, 1680-1807

• 

  Whitney Robles

  Ph.D. Candidate American Studies Harvard University

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815

• 

  Maxwell Rogoski

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Surface and Self: Science and the Social Economy of Skin in the Twentieth Century

• 

  Sarah Sussman

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of English University of Texas at Austin

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940

• 

  Dora Vargha

  Postdoctoral Research Associate Birbeck College, University of London

  2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

  Road to Eradication: Global Polio Vaccine Testing in the Cold War

2014 to 2015

• 

  Nicole Belolan

  University of Delaware

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861

• 

  Amanda Casper

  University of Delaware

  2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

  Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925

• 

  Cara Fallon

  Harvard University

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  One Hundred Years of Health: Changing Expectations for Aging Well in 20th Century America

• 

  Abraham Gibson

  Ph.D., Department of History Florida State University

  2014 to 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow

  In Search of the Social Impulse: Science and Conciliation during the Interwar Years, 1919-1939

• 

  Abigail Glogower

  University of Rochester

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  Lives of the Copyists: Replicating Subjects in Antebellum American Print Culture 1820-1860

• 

  Heidi Hausse

  Princeton University

  2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

  Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany

• 

  Phillip Honenberger

  Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University

  2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence

  The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages

• 

  Julia Mansfield

  Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

  2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence

  The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

• 

  Jonson Miller

  Associate Teaching Professor Drexel University

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South: The Southern Military Schools and the Foundation of the New South

• 

  Sarah Naramore

  University of Notre Dame

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  The Last Great System: Benjamin Rush's Physiological Worldview

• 

  Elizabeth Searcy

  Brown University

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  The Unconscious Mind in America, 1880-1917

• 

  Jeannie Shinozuka

  Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  Biotic Borderlands: Constituting Race in Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1945

• 

  Roberto Chauca Tapia

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida

  2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

  Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia

• 

  Christopher Willoughby

  Tulane University

  2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

  Treating the Black Body: Race and Medicine in American Culture, 1800-1861

2013 to 2014

• 

  Kathleen Brian

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of American Studies George Washington University

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Morbid Propensities: Suicide, Sympathy, and the Making of the Eugenic Public, 1843-1903

• 

  Sarah Chesney

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  The Fruit of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex and the Rise of American Botany in Early Federal Philadelphia

• 

  Erin Corrales-Diaz

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915

• 

  Elisabeth Berry Drago

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History University of Delaware

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science and Practice

• 

  Emily Handlin

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Art and Architecture Brown University

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia

• 

  Kathryn Irving

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  The American Idiot Schools: Disability and Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

• 

  Jason Kauffman

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Terra Desconhecida: Nature, Knowledge, and Society in the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil and Bolivia

• 

  Joel Klein

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Chymistry, Corpuscularism, and Controversy: The Ideas and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)

• 

  Jessica Linker

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Connecticut

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  "It is My Wish to Behold Ladies among my Hearers": Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860

• 

  Julia Mansfield

  Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

  2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow

  The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

• 

  Teasel Muir-Harmony

  Ph.D. Candidate History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow

  The Space Race and American Public Diplomacy

• 

  Rebecca Onion

  Ph.D. Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin

  2013 to 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow

  Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s

• 

  Donald Opitz

  Associate Professor School for New Learning DePaul University

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Cross-Atlantic Fertilizations: Women’s Horticultural Education at Ambler, Pennsylvania

• 

  James Poskett

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  Printing skulls: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)

• 

  Kristen Ann Woytonik

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of New Hampshire

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  A Healthy Independence: The Politics, Science, and Business of Healthcare in Early Republic Philadelphia

• 

  Brandon Zimmerman

  Independent Scholar

  2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

  An Empire of Skulls: The History of The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection and Scientific Collecting Practices in 19th Century Philadelphia.

2012 to 2013

• 

  Jeremy Blatter

  Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Film and Visual Studies Harvard University

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920

• 

  Catherine Bonier

  Ph.D. Candidate Architecture Department University of Pennsylvania

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium

• 

  Jeffrey Brideau

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Maryland

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow

  A Bond Rather than a Barrier: Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway, An Environmental History

• 

  Tisha Hooks

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of African American Studies Yale University

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination

• 

  Laura Igoe

  Ph.D. Candidate Tyler School of Art Temple University

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia

• 

  Lijing Jiang

  Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Arizona State University

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century

• 

  Katrina Jirik

  Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  American Institutions for the Feeble-minded from 1875 to 1920: a Reinterpretation

• 

  Emily Merchant

  University of Michigan

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century

• 

  Rebecca Onion

  Ph.D., Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin

  2012 to 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow

  Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s

• 

  Douglas O’Reagan

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War

• 

  Ann Robinson

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow

  Creating a Symbol of Science: The Standard Periodic Table of the Elements

• 

  Aimee Slaughter

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939

• 

  Simon Thode

  Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology The Johns Hopkins University

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820

• 

  Jenna Tonn

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University

  2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Show-Room and the Workshop: The Laboratory within the Natural History Museum and the Development of American Biology, 1850 – 1935

2011 to 2012

• 

  Katherine Arner

  Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Johns Hopkins University

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Shaped by Fever, Commerce and War: American Medicine and Public Health in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

• 

  Amanda Bevers

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, San Diego

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Making Museums of Medical History

• 

  Susan Brandt

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830

• 

  Benjamin Breen

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas, Austin

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Tropics and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1760

• 

  Meghan Crnic

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930

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  Claire Gherini

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Johns Hopkins University

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of British Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800.

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  Christopher Heaney

  Ph.D. Candidate (Harrington Doctoral Fellow) Department of History University of Texas at Austin

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948

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  Kurt MacMillan

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Irvine

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow

  Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965

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  Joseph Martin

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow

  Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993

• Funke Sangodeyi

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1990s

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  Aelwen Wetherby

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Department of History University of Oxford

  2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949

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  Matthew White

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida

  2011 to 2012 Research Fellow

  Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855 - 1900

2010 to 2011

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  Kuang-chi Hung

  Ph.D. Candidate History of Science Harvard University

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America

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  Andrew McGee

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Virginia

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Mainframing America: Computers, Systems, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy and Society, 1940-1985

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  Rebecca Miller

  Ph.D. Candidate Graduate School of Education Harvard University

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Crafting the Two Cultures: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970

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  Joanna Radin

  Ph.D. Candidate History & Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow

  Life on Ice: Frozen Blood, Human History, and Biodiversity in a Genomic Age

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  Madhumita Saha

  Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Technology Iowa State University

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow

  State Policy, Agricultural Research and Transformation of Indian Agriculture, With Special Reference to Basic Food Crops, 1947-1985

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  Paul Shin

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University; Ph.D. Candidate Department of Medicine University of Rochester

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Insensible Souls: Mesmerism, Science, and the American Imagination, 1837-1860

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  Cameron Strang

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas at Austin

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763-1840

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  Dora Vargha

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University

  2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: The International Governance of Polio in the Cold War from a Hungarian Perspective

2009 to 2010

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  Carin Berkowitz

  Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow

  Making British Medicine: Practice and Pedagogy in the Early Nineteenth Century

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  Andrew Berns

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Pennsylvania

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

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  Nicholas Best

  Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science

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  Nicholas Blanchard

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Domestication: The Culture of a Science in the 20th Century

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  Kara B. Clevinger

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of English Temple University

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Isolating Liberty: The Home, the Prison, and the Asylum in Antebellum Literature

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  Ellery Foutch

  Ph.D. Candidate History of Art University of Pennsylvania

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale's Butterflies, Heade's Hummingbirds, Blaschka's Flowers, and Sandow's Body

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  Anna Geltzer

  Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow

  Epistemology in Flux: Changing Conceptions of What Counts as Clinical Evidence in 20th and 21st Century Russia

• Abigail Schade

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

  2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Traditional Qanat Irrigation Technologies in Arid Environments: A Global Environmental History, with Evidence from Iran, the Western Desert of Egypt, and the Balearic Islands of Spain

2008 to 2009

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  Karin Ekholm

  Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Department Indiana University

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries

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  Christopher Jones

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930

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  Tina Kibbe

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History SUNY Buffalo

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950

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  Matthew Laubacher

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Arizona State University

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Assessing the Role of European Thought: The Culture of Collecting in 19th-Century American Natural History

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  Nicholas Spicher

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science and Technology Johns Hopkins University

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

  A Study of the 18th-Century Use and Growth of Scientific Demonstrations in the Context of University Instruction

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  Theodore Varno

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow

  The Nature of Tomorrow: Inbreeding in Practice and Theory in the Anglo-American Context, 1860-1950

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  Damon Yarnell

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow

  Motor City: Ford, Mass Production and the Industrial Ecology of Detroit, 1908-1927

2007 to 2008

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  Sarah Bridger

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

  2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991

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  Terry M. Christensen

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University

  2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

  John Archibald Wheeler: A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of 20th Century Physics

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  Melissa J. Grafe

  Ph.D. Candidate Institute of the History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University

  2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

  ‘To attendance and medicine’: Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820

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  Eric S. Hintz

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

  2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

  The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950

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  Miranda Paton

  Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

  2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

  Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis

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  Mary Elizabeth Zundo

  Ph.D. Candidate School of Fine and Applied Arts University of Illinois

  Dissertation Research Fellow

  Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier