Dissertation Fellows

Katherine Arner

Johns Hopkins University

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Amanda Bevers

University of California, San Diego

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Making Museums of Medical History

Susan Brandt

Temple University

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Benjamin Breen

University of Texas, Austin

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Meghan Crnic

University of Pennsylvania, Department of History and Sociology of Science

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Claire Gherini

Johns Hopkins University

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Christopher Heaney

Harrington Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

Grave Expectations: Peruvian Skulls, Museums and the Law, 1824-1948

Kurt MacMillan

University of California, Irvine

2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Joseph Martin

University of Minnesota

2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow

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

Funke Sangodeyi

Harvard University

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

Aelwen Wetherby

University of Oxford

2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

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

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

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

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

Miranda Paton

Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis

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

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

Paul Shin

History, Yale University; Medicine, University of Rochester

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

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

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

Dora Vargha

History, Rutgers University

2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow

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

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