Dissertation Fellows

Kuang-chi Hung

History of Science, Harvard University

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Andrew McGee

History, University of Virginia

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Rebecca Miller

Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Joanna Radin

History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2010-2011 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Madhumita Saha

History of Science and Technology, Iowa State University

2010-2011 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Paul Shin

History, Yale University; Medicine, University of Rochester

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Cameron Strang

History, University of Texas at Austin

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Carin Berkowitz

Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2009-2010 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Andrew Berns

Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

Nicholas Best

History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University

2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science

Nicholas Blanchard

Department of History, Oregon State University

2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Sarah Bridger

Department of History, Columbia University

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Terry M. Christensen

Department of History, Oregon State University

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Kara B. Clevinger

Department of English, Temple University

2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Karin Ekholm

History and Philosophy of Science Department, Indiana University

2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries

Ellery Foutch

History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Anna Geltzer

Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2009-2010 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Melissa J. Grafe

Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Eric S. Hintz

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Christopher Jones

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Tina Kibbe

Department of History, SUNY Buffalo

2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Matthew Laubacher

Department of History, Arizona State University

2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Miranda Paton

Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis

Abigail Schade

Department of History, Columbia University

2009-2010 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

Nicholas Spicher

Department of the History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Theodore Varno

Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

2008-2009 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Damon Yarnell

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2008-2009 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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