Welcome to 2022-2023 Consortium Research Fellows

We are delighted to welcome a new cohort of fellows conducting research in history of science, technology and medicine.

 

Derek Baron
Department of Historical Musicology, New York University
The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Barrie Blatchford
Department of History, Columbia University
Unnatural Selection: Animal Acclimatization, Nation-Building, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1865-1970

Camilla Cannon
Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Standard: The Institutionalization of Transgender Medicine

Leo Chu
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Harvesting Diversity: Ecology, Agriculture, and the Remaking of Development, 1970-2010

Nayanika Ghosh
Department of History of Science, Harvard University
Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science

Benjamin Goossen
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Freiburg
The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

Anthony Greco
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Engineering Egypt: Science, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Empire

Zsuzsanna Ihar
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Arming the Field: The Deployment of Agricultural Science in the Context of War and in its Aftermath (1990-2020)

Bethany Johnson
Department of History, University of South Carolina
In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922

Julia Marino
Department of History of Science, Princeton University
Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Postindustrial Crusade for Technological and Economic Competitiveness

Julia Menzel
Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT
Enigmatic Nature: Absent Laws and Hidden Objects in Theoretical Physics, 1967-2004

Sarah Naramore
Department of History, Northwest Missouri State University
Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930

Matthew Newsom Kerr
Department of History, Santa Clara University
Re-Visualizing Vaccination: The British and American “Anti-Anti-Vaccinationist” Movement, 1890-1914

Udodiri Okwandu
Department of History of Science, Harvard University
Transgressive Motherhood: Diagnostic Privilege, Race, and Maternal Mental Illness in American Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, 1890 - 1970

Marianne Quijano
Department of History, University of Florida
A Primordial Whiteness: Science, Religion, and Race in Twentieth-Century Panama

Nicky Rehnberg
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
White Roots, Redwoods: Racializing German and US Conservation, 1920-1945

Boyd Ruamcharoen
Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT
Tropical Preservation: Media Technologies and American Power in the Postcolonial Tropics

Claire Sabel
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Rare Earth: Gemstones Geohistories and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe c. 1600-1750

Sam Schirvar
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Manufacturing Self-Determination: Cold War Electronics in Tribal Development, Black Empowerment, and Prison Industry

Matthew Soleiman
Department of History,  University of California, San Diego
The Person in Pain: A Genealogy of Bodily Experience, 1906-1999

Hannah Srajer
Department of History, Yale University
The Torture Cure: Behavior Modification and Rehabilitative Logics in the American Carceral State, 1960-1990

Gina Surita
Department of History, Princeton University
The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970

Chang Xu
Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and Qing Empire, 1640-1800