Matteo Bortolini

University of Padova, Italy

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

The Effective Look of Things: A Two-Tier Biography of Clifford Geertz

Kristy Bowers

University of Missouri

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Ordinary or Dangerous Pestilence? Defining New Diseases in Early Modern Spain

Emma Broder

Harvard University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America

Tad Brown

University of Cambridge

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Fats from Seed: Chemistry, Peanut Breeding, and Food Science

Lydia Crafts

Manhattan College

2024 to 2025 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

“Little Empire”: Medicine, Public Health and Human Experimentation in 20th Century Central America

Charles Davidson

University of Florida

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Battlefields of Mind and Matter: Psychological Warfare and the Cold War Struggle for the Body, Mind, and Soul in Guatemala

Anna Doel

Independent Scholar

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Friends in Odd Places: U.S.-Soviet Scientific Contacts during the Cold War

Salem Elzway

University of Southern California, Society of Fellows in the Humanities

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Race Against the Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in Postwar America

Alfredo Escudero

Florida International University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

The Land is the Laboratory: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Colonial Andes

Sam Franz

University of Pennsylvania

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

From Computing Centers to Computer Science: The Political Economy of US Universities and the Rise of Computing, 1930-1990

Adriana Fraser

University of Pennsylvania

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Making Danger: biological weapons research, biosafety, and the management of microbial life, 1940-1990

Cory Gatrall

Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at UMass Amherst

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Race, Racism, and Reproduction in Public Health Nursing, 1900-1940

Robert Hancock

University of Victoria

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Indigenous Anthropologists and the Emergence of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the 1960s and 1970s

William Krause

Vanderbilt University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

"Scientific Genius: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Idea in Modern America, 1880-1990"

Jingwen Li

Princeton University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

A Phantom History of Phantom Ocular Impairment (1830-1930)

Jonathan MacDonald

Brown University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Expert Advice: Mediating Social Science’s Public Aspirations, 1930-1965

Elizabeth Maher

University of Illinois at Chicago

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Building Mechanical Boys: What Autism History Tells us about Constructions of Race, Disability, Gender and Class in the Mid-20th Century United States

Samantha Muka

Stevens Institute of Technology

2024 to 2025 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Conservation and Marine Pollution in the New York Bight, 1960-present

Samm Newton

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2024 to 2025 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

Expert Enclosure

Nidia Olvera Hernández

Radboud University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Traditional Uses of Mexican Psychoactive Plants. From the Creation of a National Pharmacopeia to Ethnographical Collections 1900-1957

Yovanna Pineda

University of Central Florida

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Spectacular Bodies: Aesthetics of Labor & Technology in Argentina, 20th Century

Magnus Schaefer

McGill University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

The Early Digital: From Statistical Prediction to Digital Signal Processing, 1951–1969

Tanya Sheehan

Colby College

2024 to 2025 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art

Jeannie Shinozuka

Washington State University

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Model Minority Intelligence: Race, Education, & Citizenship, 1910-1965

Alistair Sponsel

2024 to 2025 Emanuel Fellow

Documenting traditional knowledge of coral reefs in the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago

Katherine White

University of California, San Diego Department of History, Science Studies Program

2024 to 2025 Research Fellow

Anatomy and the Search for Natural Man

Evan Bonney

Centre for History (CHSP), Sciences Po

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Forests and Power in the United States Empire, 1891-1914

Peter Braden

Ph.D., Department of History, University of California-San Diego

2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow

Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and the Making of the Life Sciences in China, 1940-1980

Lu Chen

Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Alternative Road to Alma-Ata: Social Medicine and Socialist Medicine Roots of Primary Health Care from the Third World

Laura Clerx

Ph.D. Candidate, History, Boston College

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850

Al Coppola

John Jay College, CUNY

2023 to 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

Enlightenment Visibilities

Julia Cummiskey

Department of History, University of Tennessee Chattanooga

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Selling Wellness: Marketing Materials, Behaviors, and Services for Improved Health in Modern Africa

Warren Dennis

PhD candidate in History, Boston University

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

"Politically Inspired Scarcity": Energy and Masculinity in the Post-OAPEC Era

Isabela Dornelas

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Follow the Thread: a comparative history of absorbable materials in suture

Suvendu Ghatak

Department of English, University of Florida

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Malaria and the Political Ecology of Development in Twentieth-century South Asia

Minseok Jang

University at Albany, State University of New York

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911

Heewon Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Coding Actions, Making Faces: Understanding the Human Through Faces 1960 – 2000

Shirley Kinney

Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Untangling the Manuscripts and Medicine of the Pseudo-Apuleius Group

Alexei Kojevnikov

Department of History, University of British Columbia

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Knabenphysik: Cultural Crises, Postdoctoral Revolt, and Social Contexts of the Quantum Revolution

Oliver Lazarus

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life

Jamie Marsella

PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

"The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930

Catherine Mas

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida International University

2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Sweet Captivity: A Transnational History of Primatology and Culture

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

Assistant Professor, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Chasing the Magic Bullet: This History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

Derek Nelson

Ph.D., Department of History, University of New Hampshire

2023 to 2024 Emanuel Fellow

Reexamining Historical Introductions of Marine Wood-Boring Species from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology

Donald L. Opitz

Associate Professor, DePaul University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)

2023 to 2024 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920

Bican Polat

Humanities, New York University Shanghai

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Adjustment, Mental Hygiene, and Child Study: The Advent of the Personality and Culture Perspective in American Social Science

Jennifer Reiss

PhD candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

Chelsea Schields

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine

2023 to 2024 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Charged Currents: Electric Power in the Caribbean

Y. L. Lucy Wang

PhD candidate in Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894-1949

Jiemin Tina Wei

PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950

Angela Xia

PhD candidate in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

The Rest of Life: Hospice, Aging, and the Expansion of Palliative Care in America, 1971-2000

Che Yeun

PhD candidate in History of Science, Harvard University 

2023 to 2024 Research Fellow

The Finishing Touch: Cleaning and Feeling Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970

Derek Baron

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Barrie Blatchford

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Unnatural Selection: Animal Acclimatization, Nation-Building, and the Transformation of American Nature, 1865-1970

Camilla Cannon

Ph.D. Student, Department of American Studies, George Washington University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Standard: The Institutionalization of Transgender Medicine

Leo Chu

Ph.D. Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Harvesting Diversity: Ecology, Agriculture, and the Remaking of Development, 1970-2010

Nayanika Ghosh

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

2022 to 2023 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science

F. Eliza Glaze

Professor, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University

2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Medicine in the Making: Reading Hippocrates and Galen in Early Salerno and Monte Cassino

Benjamin Goossen

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

Anthony Greco

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Engineering Egypt: Science, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Empire

Holly Gruntner

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William & Mary

2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow

Fertile Ground: Kitchen Gardens and Knowledge Production in Early America

Hiro Hirai

Research Associate, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University

2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Science and Medicine

Rana Hogarth

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenic Race-Crossing Studies and the Legacies of Slavery

Zsuzsanna Ihar

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Arming the Field: The Deployment of Agricultural Science in the Context of War and in its Aftermath (1990-2020)

Bethany Johnson

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina

2022 to 2023 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922

Adam Johnson

Ph.D., Department of History, University of Michigan

2022 to 2023 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest

Judith Kaplan

Ph.D., National Science Foundation Research Scholar

2022 to 2023 Fellow in Residence

Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research

Julia Marino

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Fighting for Capitalism's Cutting Edge: The Postindustrial Crusade for Technological and Economic Competitiveness

Margaret Maurer

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2022 to 2023 Dissertation Fellow

Everyday Alchemy

Julia Menzel

Ph.D. Candidate,  Program in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, Society, MIT

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Enigmatic Nature: Absent Laws and Hidden Objects in Theoretical Physics, 1967-2004

Sarah Naramore

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwest Missouri State University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930

Matthew Newsom Kerr

Associate Professor, Department of History, Santa Clara University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Re-Visualizing Vaccination: The British and American “Anti-Anti-Vaccinationist” Movement, 1890-1914.

Udodiri Okwandu

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Transgressive Motherhood: Diagnostic Privilege, Race, and Maternal Mental Illness in American Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, 1890 - 1970

Marianne Quijano

Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Florida

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

A Primordial Whiteness: Science, Religion, and Race in Twentieth-Century Panama

Nicole Rehnberg

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

White Roots, Redwoods: Racializing Conservation in Germany and the US, 1920-1945

Boyd Ruamcharoen

Ph.D. Candidate, Programn in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Tropical Preservation: Media Technologies and American Power in the Postcolonial Tropics

Claire Sabel

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Rare Earth: Gemstones Geohistories and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe c. 1600-1750

Sam Schirvar

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Manufacturing Self-Determination: Cold War Electronics in Tribal Development, Black Empowerment, and Prison Industry

Aimee Slaughter

Ph.D., Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota

2022 to 2023 Emanuel Fellow

Making Atomic History in New Mexico

Matthew Soleiman

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, San Diego

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

The Person in Pain: A Genealogy of Bodily Experience, 1906-1999

Hannah Srajer

Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Yale University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

The Torture Cure: Behavior Modification and Rehabilitative Logics in the American Carceral State, 1960-1990

Gina Surita

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970

Chang Xu

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis

2022 to 2023 Research Fellow

Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and Qing Empire, 1640-1800

Charis Boke

Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College

2021 to 2022 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

A Dose of Herbalism: Evidence and Efficacy in North American Medical History

Richard Del Rio

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Behavioral Science and Social Medicine, Florida State University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Dope Town: The Drug Markets of Chicago, 1850-1940

Jennifer Eaglin

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Going Nuclear: The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry

Martha Espinosa

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Duke University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

The Science of Family Planning: Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge

Paul Forman

Curator Emeritus, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

An Empirico-Critical Examination of “Vienna Indeterminism”

Michelle Frank

M.A. Student, Biography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

The Daughter Particle: Chien-Shiung Wu and Twentieth Century Physics  

Jean Franzino

Postdoctoral Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Dis-Union: Disability, Narrative, and the American Civil War

Ryan Hearty

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

The Pollution Experts: Water and Environmental Engineering in the United States, 1948 to 1990

Kelsey Henry

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Developmental Humanisms: Black Histories of Developmental Science and Biomedicine in the Twentieth-Century U.S.

Matthew Hoffarth

Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019

Melanie Kiechle

Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Desensitizing Health

Hannah LeBlanc

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Nutrition for National Defense: US Food Science in World War II and the Cold War

Mia Levenson

Ph.D. Student, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Tufts University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Eugenics and the Politics of Scientific Performance

Jess Libow

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Emory University

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Marcelo Lima Loreto

Ph.D., History of Science and Technology and Epistemology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Brazilian Genetics and Politics during the Cold War (1940-1950s)

Katherine McLeod

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University

2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology

Sara Meloni

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Radical Science Collectives between Italy and the US in the Long 1960s

Emily Merchant

Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Molecular Eugenics

Kate Mulry

Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Bakersfield

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

“‘it nourisheth the Child in the Womb’: Chocolate, Reproduction, and Colonization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica”

Nic John Ramos

Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, Drexel University

2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Policing Health: Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986

Jesse Ritner

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

'White Gold': Weather, Technology, and the Rise of the North American Ski Industry, 1900-Present

Lauren Ruhrold

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

No Standard Definition: The Medical Device Industry and Its Social and Cultural History

Leah Samples

Ph.D. Candidate, History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow

Visual Citizenry: The State, Technology, and Blindness in New Deal America and Beyond

Henry Schmidt

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Social Scientists, Industrial Evolution, and the Study of Artefacts in Progressive Era America

Heather Vrana

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

2021 to 2022 Research Fellow

Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America, 1954-1996

Patrick Walsh

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2021 to 2022 Fellow in Residence

Raised from the Living: Making Therapy from Biology, 1880s-1940s

Nicole Welk-Joerger

High Meadows Environmental Institute Fellow, Princeton University

2021 to 2022 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

Rumen Nation: An Environmental History of the United States

Madeline Williams

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

2021 to 2022 Dissertation Fellow

 Challenging the Ableist State: Blind Organizing Through Technology and Welfare in the Era of the American Eugenics Movement, 1865-1940

Matthew Wisnioski

Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech

2021 to 2022 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of Science Education

Maria Paula Andrade Diniz de Araujo

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

The State of the Poor: State Building and Public Health in Modern Brazil, 1834-1920

Eve Buckley

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Hunger Politics during the Early Cold War: Intellectuals from the Global South Contest the Overpopulation Paradigm, 1948-1973

Sally Chengji Xing

Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, Columbia University

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

“Pacific Crossings”: Paul Monroe, John Dewey and the Architecture of Modern Chinese Scientific Research and Education, 1913-1949

Kerri Clement

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Wonderland’s Festering Wound: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, and Brucellosis in Twentieth-Century Yellowstone and Montana Borderlands

Matthew Foreman

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Science and Security: Constructing the Modern Chinese Citizen, 1900-1966

Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Internal Economies: Air Conditioning, Industrial Environments, and Working Bodies, 1890-1940

Hongdeng Gao

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow

 Migration, Medicine and Power: How Chinese New Yorkers Gained Better Access to Health Care, 1949-1999

Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Avocado Landscapes: The Rise and Expansion of the U.S.-Mexico Avocado Industry, 1910-2000

Matthew Hoffarth

Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine 

2020 to 2021 Fellow in Residence

The Californian Personality: Testing and Techno-Utopianism in Silicon Valley, 1949-2019

Judith Kaplan

Ph.D., Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Body

David Korostyshevsky

Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Disciplining the Drunkard: The Medico-Legal History of Habitual Drunkenness in Nineteenth-Century America

Justin Linds

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, New York University

2020 to 2021 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

Rot Before Microbes: Creating Knowledge and Value in the Early Modern Atlantic

Michael McGovern

Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Princeton University

2020 to 2021 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

Just in Numbers? Statistics and Civil Rights in Postwar America

Katherine McLeod

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University

2020 to 2021 Dissertation Fellow

How to Display a Hoatzin: Zoology, Empire, and Ecology

Joris Mercelis

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

The Long Shadow of Kodak: Corporate Knowledge Empires and the Internationalization of Science

Hillary Nunn

Professor, Department of English, University of Akron

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Domestic Medicine on the Move: Household Mobility and Early Modern Recipe Collections

Claire Oliver

Ph.D. Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Everywhere at Once: Meteorology, Communications, and the Construction of Global Climate, 1865-1900

Kelly O`Donnell

Ph.D., Department of History, Yale University

2020 to 2021 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Hippocratic Vows: How the Doctor's Wife Transformed American Medicine

Alexander Parry

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Risky Homes: Domestic Accidents from the Progressive Era to the Consumer Movement

James Rick

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William and Mary

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Cultivating Machines: Capitalism and Technology in Midwestern Agriculture, 1830-1900

Tillmann Taape

Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambrdige

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Distillation: Craft Knowledge, Medicine, and Chemistry in Early Modern Europe

Rachel Walker

Assistant Professor,  Department of History, University of Hartford

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America

Arnaud Zimmern

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame

2020 to 2021 Research Fellow

Touching Kings, Drinking Gold: Crises of Sovereignty in Jacobean Medicine

Ellen Abrams

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Making Mathematics American: Representation, Labor, and Engagement during the Growth of American Mathematics, 1894-1945

Hannah Anderson

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America

Ekaterina Babintseva

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age

Howard Chiang

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Translators of the Soul: From the First Chinese Psychoanalyst to the Rise of Transcultural Psychiatry

Marcos Cueto

Professor, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

A History of Global AIDS and Health Activism in Brazil

Ryan Dahn

Ph.D., Department of Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago

2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

Nazi Entanglement: Pascual Jordan, Quantum Mechanics, and the Legacy of the Third Reich

Menglu Gao

Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literary Studies and English, Northwestern University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

The Lacquered Chinese Box: Opium, Addiction, and the Fantasy of Empire in Nineteenth-century British Literature

Kit Heintzman

Lecturer, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Medicine Unbridled: Veterinarians and Multispecies Statecraft, 1750-1815

Alani Hicks-Bartlett

Postdoctoral Fellow, Medieval Studies, Brown University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

The Cure Gone Awry: Gender, Dis/ability, and the Ailing Empire in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Johanna Hood

Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Vital Fluid: Evolving Social, Moral and Economic Values of Blood and Cadavers in China

Lawrence Kessler

Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

2019 to 2020 Fellow in Residence

Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi

Charles Kollmer

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbes, Microbiologists, and the Chemical Order of Nature

Christa Kuljian

Research Associate, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Persistent Biological Myths: Fifty Years of Creating a Feminist Approach to Science and Technology Studies (STS), 1969-2019

Xiao Li

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Southern Illinois University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

"A New Woman”: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in the U.S. and China, 1864-1934

Diana Louis

Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the 19th Century

Zachary Mann

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Literature and Media Studies, University of Southern California

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Computing History

Patrícia Martins Marcos

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Political Medicine: Science Sovereignty and the Government of Imperial Bodies in the Portuguese Atlantic (1715-1818)

Cristina Nigro

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow

The Active Brain - A History of the Electrophysiological and Molecular Study of Cognition in the 20th Century

Megan Piorko

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Georgia State University 

2019 to 2020 Dissertation Fellow

Chymical Collections: Seventeenth-Century Textual Transmutations in the Work of Arthur Dee and Elias Ashmole

Aditya Ramesh

Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Vital Cities: Public Health, Non-Human Life and Infrastructure in South Asian Cities, 1890-1970

Katherine Reinhart

Ph.D., History of Art, University of Cambridge

2019 to 2020 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV’s France

Alexis Rider

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

A Melting Fossil: Ice, Life, and Time in the Cryosphere, 1840-1970

Emma Schroeder

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maine

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Women's Transnational Technological Activism and the Origins of Ecological Domesticity, 1960-1989

Dorin Smith

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Brown University

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel

Justin Tackett

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of English, Stanford University

2019 to 2020 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

Poetry and Sound Technology, 1816-1914; Hardy and Radio; Poetics and the Prehistory of Silent Film, c.1880-c.1930

Rebecca Woods

Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

2019 to 2020 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

Body of Animal, Body of Evidence: Paleolithic Remains and the History of Science

Sarah Xia Yu

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

2019 to 2020 Research Fellow

Healthy and Hygienic Publics in Republican China, 1912--1949

Elaine Ayers

Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science, Princeton University

2018 to 2019 Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow

Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics

Ekaterina Babintseva

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age

Edward Barnet

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Stanford University

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Homo Musicus: The Early Modern Musical Science of the Human Being

Jaime Benchimol

Senior Researcher, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective.

Geoff Bil

Ph.D. New York Botanical Gardens

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

Scottie Hale Buehler

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects

Chelsea Chamberlain

Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Diagnostic Clinics and the Problem of Human Defect in Progressive America

Benjamin Cohen

Associate Professor, Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies, Layfayette College 

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

The Future of Agriculture: A Technological History

Jessica Dandona

Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1914

Theodora Dryer

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961

Alexandra Fair

M.A. Candidate, Department of History, Miami University

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Eugenic Expectations: How the Medical Economy Changed and Sustained Eugenic Ideology in Post-WWII America

Ellery Foutch

Assistant Professor, American Studies, Middlebury College

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

The Artists' Models: Natural History Specimens and their Illustrations

Stephen Hausmann

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1850-1992

Ashley Inglehart

Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University

2018 to 2019 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries

Jordan Katz

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

Jewish Midwives, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800

Lawrence Kessler

Ph.D., Department of History, Temple University   Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

Planter's Paradise: Sugar and the Conquest of Hawaiʻi

Paul Mitchell

Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

2018 to 2019 Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow

Human Remainders: the Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection

Vivek Neelakantan

Ph.D. 

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Southeast Asia and the Beginnings of the Primary Health Paradigm, 1948-1978

Ayah B Nuriddin

Ph.D Candidate, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

2018 to 2019 Dissertation Fellow

Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles, 1890-1970 

Lisa Ruth Rand

Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

Space Junk: An Environmental History of Waste in Orbit

Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Elusive Evidence, Enduring Fluidity: Historical Trajectories of the “Mongolian Spot”as a Marker of Race

Neeraja Sankaran

Ph.D.

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

A Longue-Durée Microhistory of RSV at the Rockefeller: The Institutional Life of an In-House Discovery.

Michelle Smiley

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr

2018 to 2019 Fellow in Residence

Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

Sean M Smith

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rice University

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglo-Atlantic

Alana L Staiti

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995

Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes

Professor for the History of Science, Department of History, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

The Genetics of the Brazilian Northeastern Population, 1950-1980: Heredity, Race and Culture

Laurel J Waycott

Ph.D. Candidate, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Patterns of Creation: Organic Form in the Science of Life, 1880-1930

Kazuki Yamada

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Exeter and University of Queensland

2018 to 2019 Research Fellow

Later Life Sexuality and its Genealogies of Knowledge: The Sciences of Sex and Ageing, c. 1870 – 1980.

Kevin Baker

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow

World Processors: Computer Modeling, Global Environmentalism, and the Birth of Sustainable Development

Joanna Behrman

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Higher Education in Physics

Nicole Belolan

Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861

Paul Braff

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Temple University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Enthroning Health: The National Negro Health Movement and the Fight to Control Public Health Policy in the African American Community, 1915-1950

Theodora Dryer

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

2017 to 2018 Dissertation Fellow

 Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Planning in An Age of Anxiety, 1920-1961

Kathrinne Duffy

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Brown University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Antebellum America

Kate Grauvogel

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones and Blood Clots, 1784 -1963

Martha Groppo

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939

Nabeel Hamid

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy

Alma Igra

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

 Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941

Jonathan Jones

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Binghamton University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

Lawrence Kessler

Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

Planter's Paradise: Environment, Empire, and the Making of Hawaiʻi's Sugarcane Plantation System

Joseph Martin

National Science Foundation Research Scholar

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University

Emelin Miller

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Empire of Ice: Arctic Natural History and British Visions of Nature, 1650-1800

Timothy Minella

Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century

Taylor Moore

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semicolonial Upper Egypt (1875-1960)

Lauren Rosati

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933

Michael Sappol

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Uppsala University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, showmanship & the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950

Aprajita Sarcar

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Queen’s University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77

Adam Shapiro

National Science Foundation Research Scholar

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

An Unfit Darwinist: Disability, Slander and America's First Evolution Trial

Michelle Smiley

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr

2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence

Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

Daniel Vandersommers

Ph.D., Department of History, The Ohio State University

2017 to 2018 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

Yuan Yi

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Textile Factories in Early Twentieth-Century China

Leah Aronowsky

Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Configuring "Life" in the Biosphere, 1950-2000

George Aumoithe

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965-2000

Sarah Basham

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of British Columbia

2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

Rethinking the Ontology of Chinese Encyclopedias: The Life and Times of Treatise on Military Preparedness (1621)

AJ Blandford

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys

Nicholas Bonneau

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Notre Dame

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Unspeakable Loss, Distempered Awakenings: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765

Melissa Charenko

Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science University of Wisconsin-Madison

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

"The Science of Prophecy"? The Role of the Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916-2015

Rosanna Dent

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015

Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

Ph.D. Student School of Architecture University of Texas, Austin

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Inside Out: Office Buildings and the Hybrid Nature of Space, 1870-1930

Louis Gerdelan

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Calamitous knowledge: understanding disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic worlds, 1666-1755

Lawrence Kessler

Ph.D. Department of History Temple University

2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

Planter’s Paradise: Nature and Culture on Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations

Alison Laurence

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

An Unnatural History of Deep Time: Extinct Animals and the Politics of Place in the Modern United States

Julia Mansfield

Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

Joseph Martin

National Science Foundation Research Scholar

2016 to 2017 Fellow in Residence

Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University

Christine Peralta

Ph.D. Student Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Labor Pains: Working Class Women's Access to Healthcare in the Philippines, 1898-1950

Alicia Puglionesi

Ph.D. History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Johns Hopkins University

2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

The Astonishment of Experience: Americans and Psychical Research, 1885-1935

Tricia Ross

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Duke University

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany

Michelle Smiley

Ph.D. Student History of Art Bryn Mawr

2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

Becoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium

Angela Smith

Adjunct Assistant Professor of History Austin Community College Ph.D., History University of Texas, Austin

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

The Romantic Roots of Evolution in Scotland

Oscar Moisés Torres Montúfar

Ph.D. Student Department of History, El Colegio de México

2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

Miners, Oilmen and Chemists: Globalization and Technology in Mexican Sulphur Industry (1933-1972)

David Ceccarelli

Ph.D. Candidate Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences University of Rome Tor Vergata

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Between Cope and Osborn: the Role of the American Biological Discourse on the Public Debate on Evolution

Wendy Gonaver

Ph.D. American Studies Program College of William and Mary

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

The Peculiar Institution: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry

Phillip Honenberger

Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University

2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence

The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages

Lawrence Kessler

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University

2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

Planter’s Paradise: Agriculture, Ecology, and Science in Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations, 1778-1920

Tamara Kneese

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Digital Afterlives: Patterning Posterity Through Networked Remains

Tess Lanzarotta

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

A Lab at the Top of the World: Circumpolar Health and Indigenous Politics in Cold War Alaska

Jongmin Lee

Lecturer Engineering and Society University of Virginia

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Rayon: Poisoned History of Empowerment

Shana Lopes

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History Rutgers University

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

“The Fraternity throughout the World”: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890

Joseph Malherek

Department of American Studies George Washington University

2015 to 2016 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

From Bauhaus to Maxwell House: Continental Design and Social Science as Technologies of Consumer Engineering in Twentieth-Century America

Julia Mansfield

Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

2015 to 2016 Fellow in Residence

The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

Alexander Moffett

Ph.D. Candidate CHSS / Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

The Circulation of Medical Knowledge: Collective Investigation, 1860-1920

Lisa Ruth Rand

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands, 1957-1985

Miriam Rich

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science Harvard University

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Race and Defective Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Science, Medicine, and Law

James Risk

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of South Carolina

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Coastal Identities: Science, Technology, Commerce, and the State in American Seaports, 1790 - 1860

Carolyn Roberts

Ph.D. Candidate African and African American Studies Harvard University

2015 to 2016 Dissertation Fellow

Surgeon, Fetish Woman, Apothecary, Slave: The Medical Culture, Labor, and Economy of the British Slave Trade, 1680-1807

Whitney Robles

Ph.D. Candidate American Studies Harvard University

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815

Maxwell Rogoski

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Surface and Self: Science and the Social Economy of Skin in the Twentieth Century

Sarah Sussman

Ph.D. Candidate Department of English University of Texas at Austin

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Divining a Usable Past: Psychical Research and the High-Culture Novel, 1880-1940

Dora Vargha

Postdoctoral Research Associate Birbeck College, University of London

2015 to 2016 Research Fellow

Road to Eradication: Global Polio Vaccine Testing in the Cold War

Nicole Belolan

University of Delaware

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861

Amanda Casper

University of Delaware

2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925

Cara Fallon

Harvard University

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

One Hundred Years of Health: Changing Expectations for Aging Well in 20th Century America

Abraham Gibson

Ph.D., Department of History Florida State University

2014 to 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow

In Search of the Social Impulse: Science and Conciliation during the Interwar Years, 1919-1939

Abigail Glogower

University of Rochester

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

Lives of the Copyists: Replicating Subjects in Antebellum American Print Culture 1820-1860

Heidi Hausse

Princeton University

2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany

Phillip Honenberger

Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Temple University

2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence

The Philosophy of Biology in North America, 1959-2009: Disciplinary Symbioses, Constitutive Tensions, and Branching Lineages

Julia Mansfield

Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

2014 to 2015 Fellow in Residence

The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

Jonson Miller

Associate Teaching Professor Drexel University

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South: The Southern Military Schools and the Foundation of the New South

Sarah Naramore

University of Notre Dame

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

The Last Great System: Benjamin Rush's Physiological Worldview

Elizabeth Searcy

Brown University

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

The Unconscious Mind in America, 1880-1917

Jeannie Shinozuka

Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

Biotic Borderlands: Constituting Race in Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1945

Roberto Chauca Tapia

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida

2014 to 2015 Dissertation Fellow

Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia

Christopher Willoughby

Tulane University

2014 to 2015 Research Fellow

Treating the Black Body: Race and Medicine in American Culture, 1800-1861

Kathleen Brian

Ph.D. Candidate Department of American Studies George Washington University

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Morbid Propensities: Suicide, Sympathy, and the Making of the Eugenic Public, 1843-1903

Sarah Chesney

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

The Fruit of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex and the Rise of American Botany in Early Federal Philadelphia

Erin Corrales-Diaz

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915

Elisabeth Berry Drago

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Art History University of Delaware

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science and Practice

Emily Handlin

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Art and Architecture Brown University

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia

Kathryn Irving

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

The American Idiot Schools: Disability and Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

Jason Kauffman

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Terra Desconhecida: Nature, Knowledge, and Society in the Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil and Bolivia

Joel Klein

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Chymistry, Corpuscularism, and Controversy: The Ideas and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)

Jessica Linker

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Connecticut

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

"It is My Wish to Behold Ladies among my Hearers": Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860

Julia Mansfield

Ph.D. Candidate History Department Stanford University

2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow

The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805

Teasel Muir-Harmony

Ph.D. Candidate History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2013 to 2014 Dissertation Fellow

The Space Race and American Public Diplomacy

Rebecca Onion

Ph.D. Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin

2013 to 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow

Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s

Donald Opitz

Associate Professor School for New Learning DePaul University

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Cross-Atlantic Fertilizations: Women’s Horticultural Education at Ambler, Pennsylvania

James Poskett

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Printing skulls: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)

Kristen Ann Woytonik

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of New Hampshire

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

A Healthy Independence: The Politics, Science, and Business of Healthcare in Early Republic Philadelphia

Brandon Zimmerman

Independent Scholar

2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

An Empire of Skulls: The History of The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection and Scientific Collecting Practices in 19th Century Philadelphia.

Jeremy Blatter

Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Film and Visual Studies Harvard University

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920

Catherine Bonier

Ph.D. Candidate Architecture Department University of Pennsylvania

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium

Jeffrey Brideau

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Maryland

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow

A Bond Rather than a Barrier: Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway, An Environmental History

Tisha Hooks

Ph.D. Candidate Department of African American Studies Yale University

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination

Laura Igoe

Ph.D. Candidate Tyler School of Art Temple University

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia

Lijing Jiang

Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Arizona State University

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century

Katrina Jirik

Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

American Institutions for the Feeble-minded from 1875 to 1920: a Reinterpretation

Emily Merchant

University of Michigan

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century

Rebecca Onion

Ph.D., Department of American Studies University of Texas, Austin

2012 to 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow

Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s

Douglas O’Reagan

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War

Ann Robinson

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Fellow

Creating a Symbol of Science: The Standard Periodic Table of the Elements

Aimee Slaughter

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939

Simon Thode

Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology The Johns Hopkins University

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820

Jenna Tonn

Ph.D. Candidate Department of the History of Science Harvard University

2012 to 2013 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Show-Room and the Workshop: The Laboratory within the Natural History Museum and the Development of American Biology, 1850 – 1935

Katherine Arner

Ph.D. Candidate Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Johns Hopkins University

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Shaped by Fever, Commerce and War: American Medicine and Public Health in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

Amanda Bevers

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, San Diego

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Making Museums of Medical History

Susan Brandt

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Temple University

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830

Benjamin Breen

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas, Austin

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Tropics and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1760

Meghan Crnic

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930

Claire Gherini

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Johns Hopkins University

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of British Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800.

Christopher Heaney

Ph.D. Candidate (Harrington Doctoral Fellow) Department of History University of Texas at Austin

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948

Kurt MacMillan

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Irvine

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow

Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965

Joseph Martin

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Technology and Medicine University of Minnesota

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Fellow

Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993

Funke Sangodeyi

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Harvard University

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1990s

Aelwen Wetherby

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science, Department of History University of Oxford

2011 to 2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949

Matthew White

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Florida

2011 to 2012 Research Fellow

Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855 - 1900

Kuang-chi Hung

Ph.D. Candidate History of Science Harvard University

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America

Andrew McGee

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Virginia

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

Mainframing America: Computers, Systems, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy and Society, 1940-1985

Rebecca Miller

Ph.D. Candidate Graduate School of Education Harvard University

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

Crafting the Two Cultures: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970

Joanna Radin

Ph.D. Candidate History & Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow

Life on Ice: Frozen Blood, Human History, and Biodiversity in a Genomic Age

Madhumita Saha

Ph.D. Candidate History of Science and Technology Iowa State University

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Fellow

State Policy, Agricultural Research and Transformation of Indian Agriculture, With Special Reference to Basic Food Crops, 1947-1985

Paul Shin

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Yale University; Ph.D. Candidate Department of Medicine University of Rochester

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

Insensible Souls: Mesmerism, Science, and the American Imagination, 1837-1860

Cameron Strang

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Texas at Austin

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763-1840

Dora Vargha

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Rutgers University

2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: The International Governance of Polio in the Cold War from a Hungarian Perspective

Carin Berkowitz

Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow

Making British Medicine: Practice and Pedagogy in the Early Nineteenth Century

Andrew Berns

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of Pennsylvania

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

Nicholas Best

Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science

Nicholas Blanchard

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

Domestication: The Culture of a Science in the 20th Century

Kara B. Clevinger

Ph.D. Candidate Department of English Temple University

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

Isolating Liberty: The Home, the Prison, and the Asylum in Antebellum Literature

Ellery Foutch

Ph.D. Candidate History of Art University of Pennsylvania

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale's Butterflies, Heade's Hummingbirds, Blaschka's Flowers, and Sandow's Body

Anna Geltzer

Ph.D. Candidate Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Fellow

Epistemology in Flux: Changing Conceptions of What Counts as Clinical Evidence in 20th and 21st Century Russia

Abigail Schade

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

2009 to 2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

Traditional Qanat Irrigation Technologies in Arid Environments: A Global Environmental History, with Evidence from Iran, the Western Desert of Egypt, and the Balearic Islands of Spain

Karin Ekholm

Ph.D. Candidate History and Philosophy of Science Department Indiana University

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries

Christopher Jones

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930

Tina Kibbe

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History SUNY Buffalo

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950

Matthew Laubacher

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Arizona State University

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

Assessing the Role of European Thought: The Culture of Collecting in 19th-Century American Natural History

Nicholas Spicher

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History of Science and Technology Johns Hopkins University

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

A Study of the 18th-Century Use and Growth of Scientific Demonstrations in the Context of University Instruction

Theodore Varno

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History University of California, Berkeley

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow

The Nature of Tomorrow: Inbreeding in Practice and Theory in the Anglo-American Context, 1860-1950

Damon Yarnell

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2008 to 2009 Dissertation Fellow

Motor City: Ford, Mass Production and the Industrial Ecology of Detroit, 1908-1927

Sarah Bridger

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Columbia University

2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991

Terry M. Christensen

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Oregon State University

2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

John Archibald Wheeler: A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of 20th Century Physics

Melissa J. Grafe

Ph.D. Candidate Institute of the History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University

2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

‘To attendance and medicine’: Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820

Eric S. Hintz

Ph.D. Candidate Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950

Miranda Paton

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University

2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis

Mary Elizabeth Zundo

Ph.D. Candidate School of Fine and Applied Arts University of Illinois

2007 to 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier