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Graduate Alumni
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Welcome to our new Graduate Students!
Whitney Laemmli
Lisa Rand
Nellwyn Thomas
Graduate Student News
Matthew Hersch won the Robinson Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) for his 2008 presentation. This prize is awarded for "the best-presented paper at the SHOT meeting by an individual delivering his or her first paper at the meeting. Candidates for the award are judged on the quality of the historical research and scholarship of the paper, but special attention is paid by the awards committee to the effectiveness of the presentation."
Our graduate students hosted the Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine on October 9-10.
In spring 2009, our graduate students had spectacular success in winning grants and fellowships, including winning five Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Dissertation Research Fellowships from the School of Arts and Sciences--a success rate of 100%.
Peter Collopy, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Pottruck Graduate Presidential Prize Fellowship
Erica Dwyer has been invited to participate in the 2009 Fulbright-Hays Zulu Group Project Abroad in South Africa for ten weeks of intensive Zulu language study.
Matthew Hersch, HSS/NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Science for the 2009-10 academic year.
Eric Hintz, SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Jessica Martucci, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Grant, Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality Grant, Pressman Fund Award
Joanna Radin, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship grant, and a grant-in-aid from the Hagley Library and Museum.
Corinna Schlombs, IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History
Roger Turner,Guggenheim pre-doctoral fellowship (National Air and Space Museum), Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Research Grant (Pan American Airlines Historical Foundation)
Kristoffer Whitney, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship
Damon Yarnell, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship, NSF funding for dissertation completion
Publications - Grad Students
Matt Hersch, “‘Calm, But Still Alert’: Marketing Stelazine to Disturbed America, 1958–1980” Pharmacy in History (AIHP).
____. “CHECKLIST: The Secret Life of Apollo’s ‘Fourth Crewmember,’” in Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism, edited by Martin Parker and David Bell (Blackwell).
____.“HIGH FASHION: The Women’s Undergarment Industry and the Foundations of American Spaceflight,” Fashion Theory
Eric S. Hintz, “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of
Duracell.” Technology and Culture 50, no. 1 (January 2009): 24-57. (Publication of Levinson Prize 2007 essay)
Jessica Martucci, “Negotiating Exclusion: MSM, Identity, and Blood Policy in the Age of AIDS,” Journal of the Social Studies of Science
Joanna Radin, “Bounding Nanotechnology: Deconstructing the Drexler-Smalley Debate.” Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
Roger Turner, “Laughing at the Weather? The Serious Business of Weather Cartoons,” History of Science Society Newsletter
Kristoffer Whitney, "Sun & Earth and the 'Green Economy': A Case Study in
Small-Business Innovation," Studies in Materials Innovation, Center for Contemporary History and Policy (Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2009).
