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.
Minseok Jang
Read about Minseok Jang's research exploring energy history and the anti-trust movement during the transition to artificial lighting and kerosene.
Menglu Gao
Read about the research of Consortium Fellow Menglu Gao, as she rethinks the conceptual relationship between addiction and empire in the nineteenth century, based on her research in the collections of the Wellcome and Yale University.
Kirsten Moore Sheeley
Consortium Fellow Kirsten Moore-Sheeley discusses the history and consequences of failures and challenges in vaccine research.
Shirley Kinney
Consortium NEH Fellow Shirley Kinney uncovers the fluid nature of a group of medical texts that were copied, translated and modified across Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.
Evan Bonney
Research Fellow Evan Bonney reports on his research into the science of forestry adopted by the United States Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior as a tool of soft power for the United States Empire at the turn of the twentieth century.
Derek Baron
Consortium Fellow Derek Baron discusses the study of language and the rise of U.S. continental imperialism.
Chelsea Schields
Consortium NEH Fellow Chelsea Schields explores the legacies of colonialism in Caribbean electrical systems.
Catherine Mas
Consortium NEH Fellow Catherine Mas uncovers the gender history and cultural history of early primatology.
Peter Braden
How did lab animals become "sentient drug factories" with significant influence over the history of health and medicine in China? Read about Peter Braden's research examining the multispecies history of science in modern China.