Recent Graduates
2012
Joanna Radin is Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Section of the History of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She also has a secondary appointment in Yale University's Department of Anthropology playing an active role in the creation of a new M.A. program in Medical Anthropology.
Jason Schwartz is the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. The Center supports teaching, research, and discussion of ethics and human values throughout the curriculum and across disciplines at Princeton (its founding director was current Penn President Amy Gutmann.)
Kristoffer Whitney has a two-year postdoc at the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
2011
Jessica Martucci is assistant professor (tenure track) at Mississippi State University as a U.S. women's historian and historian of sci/med/tech.
Perrin Selcer is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.
2010
Matt Hersch is now lecturer in Penn's HSS department after doing a post-doc in history at the University of Southern California. He recently published an article in The Journal of Popular Culture 44 (2011), "Return of the Lost Spaceman: America's Astronauts in Popular Culture, 1959-2006."
Eric Hintz is the Historian at the Lemelson Center for the
Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum
of American History.
Corinna Schlombs is an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Roger Turner is a visiting assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Damon Yarnell is Associate Dean for Academic Advising at Dickinson College. His responsibilities include being Sophomore and Junior Class Dean.
2009
Josh Berson is a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. He is working on a book on the history of endangered language documentation in Australia, working title, "Archive Dreams: Language Documentation, Decolonization, Northern Australia."
Christopher Jones is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California at Berkeley, and has accepted a faculty position at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) in Environmental Humanities, in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies starting in August 2013.
Andi Johnson, Lecturer in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Pawley is assistant professor of history at Dickinson College.
2008
Paul Burnett is an assistant professor at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada, and writing a book, The Visible Land: Agricultural Economics, Export Agriculture, and International Development in the United States, 1918-1965.
Elise Carpenter graduated from Penn Med in 2010 and has a Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Katherine (Katie) Janssen leads workshops and other events in which she applies insights from history, ethics, and the arts to real-life issues. She also also writes and edits college textbooks and supplementary materials on a freelance basis; recent projects have included contributions to Gilbert and Reynolds, Africa in World History (Prentice Hall) and Craig, et al, The Heritage of World Civilizations (Prentice Hall).
Hilary Smith is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dickinson College.
Dominique Tobbell is Assistant Professor, History of Medicine program, University of Minnesota, and also oral historian for the University of Minnesota.