News and Notes
2007-2008 Visiting Dissertation Fellows
October 24, 2007
Five graduate students have been awarded Visiting Dissertation Fellowships at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science for 2007-2008. This year’s Fellows will each spend one or two months working at some of the Center’s member institutions:
- American Philosophical Society
- Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Hagley Museum and Library
- The Franklin Institute
- Princeton University
- University of Pennsylvania
- The Wagner Free Institute of Science.
The Fellows and their theses are:
- Terry M. Christensen, Oregon State University
- John Archibald Wheeler: A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of Twentieth Century Physics
- Melissa Grafe, Johns Hopkins University
- Medical Practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic Regions, 1769-1820
- Eric S. Hintz, University of Pennsylvania
- The Post Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950
- Miranda Paton, Cornell University
- Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis
- Mary Elizabeth Zundo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier