Jeannie Shinozuka examines the connections between intelligence testing and race making in the twentieth century.
Jeannie Shinozuka
Magnus Schaefer
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 Hernandez
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
Lydia Crafts examines the history of medical experimentation in Guatemala during the 1940s in the context of Guatemala-U.S. relations.
Jiemin Tina Wei
Jiemin Tina Wei merges business history, labor history and history of science to examine the history of industrial fatigue.
Sam Franz
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
Adriana Fraser examines Consortium collections to find how scientists understood human-microbe relations in the second half of the twentieth century.
Anna Doel
Anna Doel finds unexpectedly rich personal and professional communications between U.S. and Soviet scientists across the Iron Curtain.
Emma Broder
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
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
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.
Alfredo Escudero
Alfredo Escudero analyzes colonial Spanish capture and systematization of indigenous knowledge across the central and Southern Andes.
Al Coppola
Greenfield Fellow Al Coppola examines what annotations tell us about the use of eighteenth-century microscopy texts held in Consortium collections.
Lu Chen
Consortium Fellow Lu Chen integrates the history of Chinese socialist medicine into its global context.
Angela Xia
Research Fellow Angela Xia studies how notions of ethnicity, race, or religion affected the distribution of healthcare.
Warren Dennis
Consortium Fellow Warren Dennis discusses the role of gender and masculinity in the history of twentieth-century U.S. energy policy.
Derek Nelson
Emanuel Fellow Derek Nelson explores the global movement of marine species in the early modern era, and how introduced species shaped human experiences with the sea.
Donald Opitz
Thompson Fellow Donald Opitz uncovers women's involvement in the development of agricultural and the horticultural sciences.
Benjamin Goossen
Read about Benjamin Goossen's work on the global expansion of the Earth sciences and their relationship to the new international order in the mid-twentieth century.
Jennifer Eaglin
Read about Jennifer Eaglin's project on the development and legacies of Brazil's nuclear energy industry.