News of the Consortium
September 17, 2023
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2023-2024 Research Fellows
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The Consortium is delighted to welcome its new cohort of Research Fellows for 2023-2024. This year's fellows, joining NEH and Emanuel Fellows announced earlier, will travel from across North America, Europe and Asia to conduct research in the collections of member institutions.
 Evan Bonney
Sciences Po Centre for History
Forests and Power in the United States Empire, 1891-1914
 Lu Chen
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter
Alternative Road to Alma-Ata: Social Medicine and Socialist Medicine Roots of Primary Health Care from the Third World
 Laura Clerx
History, Boston College
Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850
 Al Coppola
John Jay College, CUNY
Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow
Enlightenment Visibilities
 Julia Cummiskey
History, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Selling Wellness: Marketing Materials, Behaviors, and Services for Improved Health in Modern Africa
 Warren Dennis
History, Boston University
"Politically Inspired Scarcity": Energy and Masculinity in the Post-OAPEC Era
 Isabela Dornelas
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Follow the Thread: a comparative history of absorbable materials in suture
 Suvendu Ghatak
English, University of Florida
Malaria and the Political Ecology of Development in Twentieth-century South Asia
 Minseok Jang
University at Albany, State University of New York
Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911
 Heewon Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Coding Actions, Making Faces: Understanding the Human Through Faces 1960 – 2000
 Alexei Kojevnikov
History, University of British Columbia
Knabenphysik: Cultural Crises, Postdoctoral Revolt, and Social Contexts of the Quantum Revolution
 Oliver Lazarus
History of Science, Harvard University
Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life
 Jamie Marsella
History of Science, Harvard University
"The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930
 Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Chasing the Magic Bullet: This History and Consequences of Vaccine Research
 Donald Opitz
DePaul University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)
Keith S. Thomson Research Fellow
Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920
 Bican Polat
Humanities, New York University Shanghai
Adjustment, Mental Hygiene, and Child Study: The Advent of the Personality and Culture Perspective in American Social Science
 Jennifer Reiss
History, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
 Y. L. Lucy Wang
Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894-1949
 Jiemin Tina Wei
History of Science, Harvard University
Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950
 Angela Xia
Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Rest of Life: Hospice, Aging, and the Expansion of Palliative Care in America, 1971-2000
 Che Yeun
History of Science, Harvard University
The Finishing Touch: Cleaning and Feeling Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970
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The Consortium's working groups are held online and are open to all interested scholars. Each working group convenes monthly for discussions of works-in-progress or important published texts on a wide variety of specialized subfields in history of science, technology and medicine. Join one or more groups and participate in the conversation.
You can also submit a paper for discussion in one of the working groups.
History of Science in Early South Asia
Monday, September 18, 2023 10:30 am EDT
Dominique Baur, Heidelberg University
Daisy Cheung, Hamburg University
"Dreams and Tooth-cleaning-sticks: Two Omens from Indian Tantric Traditions"
Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 11:00 am EDT
Hana Kaluznick, Victoria and Albert Museum
"Chromatic Imagination: Realising Early Colour Photography in Britain, 1890 to 1939"
History of Technology
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 1:00 pm EDT
Please note new meeting time: Third Tuesdays, 1:00-2:30 EST.
Is There a Canon in the History of Technology?
Two things are on the agenda: a brief discussion of the upcoming year's schedule, and then a more substantial reflection on the idea of a canon in the history of technology.
History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 2:00 pm EDT
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
"Reframing Borderwaters: Marshall Island Stick Charts as Development Technologies"
History of Media Studies
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 10:00 am EDT
Readings:
Valeska Huber & Jürgen Osterhammel, “Introduction: Global Publics” (2020)
Ali Karimi, "Ephemeral Publics: An Experiment in Influencing Muslim Public Opinion in WWI."
Reproductive Health Histories
Thursday, September 21, 2023 12:00 pm EDT
Introductions and Overview of Working Group Program
We will reflect on the role that history plays in present-day conversations about reproductive health. We encourage participants to read selected news articles for discussion, and invite participants to share excerpts of their work related to the working group theme.
Collections and Collecting
Friday, September 22, 2023 12:00 pm EDT
Anna Majeski, American Philosophical Society
"American Natural History, 1750-1850: Depicting Nature in a Time of Change"
Science, Capitalism, and Knowledge Commodities
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1:00 pm EDT
Maria Fedorova, Macalester College
"The American Tractor Unit and Agricultural Reconstruction of Soviet Russia, 1921-23."
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