Dissertation Fellows
Current Fellows
The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920
Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium
A Bond Rather than a Barrier: Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway, An Environmental History
Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination
The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia
Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century
American Institutions for the Feeble-minded from 1875 to 1920: a reinterpretation
Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century
Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War
Dark Futures: Environmental Catastrophes and American Childhood in the 1970s
Creating a Symbol of Science: The Standard Periodic Table of the Elements
Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939
The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820
Jenna Tonn
Harvard University, Department of the History of Science
2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Show-Room and the Workshop: The Laboratory within the Natural History Museum and the Development of American Biology, 1850 – 1935
Past Fellows
Shaped by Fever, Commerce and War: American Medicine and Public Health in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions
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
Making Museums of Medical History
Nicholas Blanchard
Department of History, Oregon State University
2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow
Domestication: The Culture of a Science in the 20th Century
Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
Cures from New Worlds: the Portuguese Tropics and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade, 1640-1760
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
Isolating Liberty: The Home, the Prison, and the Asylum in Antebellum Literature
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
Karin Ekholm
History and Philosophy of Science Department, Indiana University
2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow
Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries
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
'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of British Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800.
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
Christopher Heaney
Harrington Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulatio n of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948
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
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
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
Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965
Solid Foundations: Structuring American Solid State Physics, 1939-1993
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
Funke Sangodeyi
Harvard University
2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1990s
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
Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763-1840
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
Aid, Incorporated: American Medical Relief to China and the Development of Medical Diplomacy, 1937-1949
Public Science, Patronage, and Free Education: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia 1855 - 1900
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
Mary Elizabeth Zundo
School of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois
2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier
