Fellowships

Julia Cummiskey explores how public policy, corporate enterprise, and visual media shaped health messaging across the continent.

Nancy D. Campbell traces how rural Pennsylvania’s energy landscape evolved from anthracite coal to nuclear power—and now to a massive data-center boom. Her research reveals how decades of corporate consolidation, financial speculation, and energy development are reshaping Salem Township, its land, and its communities.

José Alberto Nochebuena uncovers the transnational history of soil mechanics and its transformative role in shaping modern Mexico City.

Clare Byers examines how eighteenth-century books circulated and reshaped knowledge about North America, revealing how readers used, corrected, and repurposed older information to make new knowledge.

Jonathan MacDonald explores how postwar American social scientists used popular media to bring social science to broad audiences and shaped public understanding of democracy, psychology, and civic life.

Olivia Casey uses Consortium member collections to show how mid-twentieth-century economists and demographers complicated prevailing ideas tying girls' education to fertility control.

William Krause explores how the concept of individual genius shaped U.S. culture, industry and academics in the twentieth century.

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 in one of 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.