Fellowships

Elizabeth Maher examines the gendered and racialized bifurcation of psychological diagnoses, and the historical roots of autism’s association with white masculinity and technocracy.

Nathalia Gomes uses Consortium member collections to explore the layers of local and global agency the world's largest disease eradication programs.

Alexey Golubev uses Consortium collections to explore state-sponsored efforts to promote scientific citizenship.

Samantha Muka explores the history and politics of waste management in coastal environments.

Katherine White uses rare editions of early modern books in Consortium collections to trace different sources of medical knowledge in the Spanish Empire.

Robert Hancock uses Consortium collections to uncover the role that indigenous scholars played in developing the field.

Yovana Pineda examines the endurance of Juan Perón's regime on Argentina's built environment.

Kristy Wilson Bowers explores the variability and utility of naming historical diseases.

Tad Brown investigates the science and technology of developing a more profitable peanut.

Jeannie Shinozuka examines the connections between intelligence testing and race making in the twentieth century.

Magnus Schaefer examines the intersection of mathematics, business interests and Cold War anxieties that gave rise to the field of digital signal processing.

Nidia Olvera Hernández uses transnational research in the collections of Consortium institutions to explore how psychoactive plants were understood within different scientific traditions.

Lydia Crafts examines the history of medical experimentation in Guatemala during the 1940s in the context of Guatemala-U.S. relations.

Jiemin Tina Wei merges business history, labor history and history of science to examine the history of industrial fatigue.

Sam Franz examines how universities, foundations and corporations developed computing education as a social and economic project in the postwar world — and provides historical context for contemporary issues such as AI, digital labor, and the university's role in the economy.

Adriana Fraser examines Consortium collections to find how scientists understood human-microbe relations in the second half of the twentieth century.

Anna Doel finds unexpectedly rich personal and professional communications between U.S. and Soviet scientists across the Iron Curtain.

Emma Broder examines controversies about psychological causes of 20th-century outbreaks now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID, and uncovers new opportunities for research in the history of medicine.

Tanya Sheehan uses the collections of the NY Academy of Medicine and the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University to explore the history of artistic depictions of racial inequities in medical care.

Matteo Bortolini uses his research for a biography of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz to explore theoretical questions about the historical sociology of ideas, intellectuals, and the social sciences.