Emily Merchant (2012-2013 Research Fellow) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the STS program at U.C. Davis. Emily has also published several articles: “A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915-1984,” Population and Development Review 43, no 1 (2017): 83-117; “IDS Transposer: A Users Guide,” Historical Life Course Studies 4 (2017): 59-96; “Historical Demography in the United States,” pp. 655-670 in A Global History of Historical Demography, ed. Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, S. Sogner, and I. Bolovan. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016; and “La Raza: Mexicans in the United States Census,” Journal of Policy History 28, no. 4 (2016): 537-567, awarded the James Madison prize by the Society for History in the Federal Government.

Constellations Corvus, Crater, Hydra

Foldout frontispiece depicting the constellations Corvus, Crater and Hydra. From Catherine Vale Whitwell’s 1818, An astronomical catechism.