Fellowships

Megan will be an American Trust for the British Library (ATBL) Fellow in partnership with the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance at Johns Hopkins University for the 2022-2023 academic year. Megan has also published several articles:

Piorko, Megan, Marieke Hendriksen, and Simon Werrett. “Introduction: Alchemical Practice: Looking Towards the Chemical Humanities.” Special Issue “Alchemical Practice and the Chemical Humanities,” Ambix 69 no. 1 (2022): 1-18.

Piorko, Megan, Sarah Lang, and Richard Bean. “Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher.” In The Conversation https://theconversation.com/deciphering-the-philosophers-stone-how-we-cracked-a-400-year-old-alchemical-cipher-167900> published online October 13, 2021.

James recently published a new book, Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science. Horizons recasts the history of science, uncovering the vital contributions that scientists in Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific have made to this global story.

Joe's book, Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968 is to be released later this year.

The Organization of American Historians awarded Emily Merchant the 2022 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, which is given annually for the best book in American intellectual history. Merchant’s book, Building the Population Bomb (Oxford University Press), is a concise and memorable volume exploring the history of population science in its sociopolitical, economic, ideological, and ethical dimensions offering a comprehensive interrogation of the data and assumptions at the heart of twentieth-century demographic work, which fueled popular concerns about overpopulation.

Ben was awarded a Fellowship at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton for Spring 2023 for his project, "How Not to Feed the World."

Michelle has been appointed Assistant Curator of photography at the Library of Congress.

Vivek's new book, The Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia: Perspectives from the Cold War to COVID-19 is under contract for publication with Routledge.

Adam recently published a new book, Science and Religion, A Very Short Introduction. The book examines landmark episodes in science and religion history, including the Galileo affair, the Scopes “Monkey” trial, and the Covid-19 pandemic, and explains the historical roots of current debates between science and religion.

Kelly O’Donnell has been appointed lecturer at Yale.

Teasel Muir-Harmony published Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo (Basic Books, 2020).