Around the Department
Mellon Fellow Mara Mills has received the 2009 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and the 2009 William Cadogan Prize
from the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health.
STSC senior Lindsey Stull writes a regular column for The Daily Pennsylvanian
Professor John Tresch is on leave with a fellowship from the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for the 2009-2010 academic year.
HSS was well represented at SHOT 2009 (Society for the History of Technology meeting) in Pittsburgh on October 15-18. Faculty and graduate students: Ruth Cowan, Nathan Ensmenger, Ann Greene, Matt Hersch, Eric Hintz, Corrina Schlombs, Kristofer Whitney and Damon Yarnell; HSS Alums: Atsushi Akera, Glenn Bugos, Bernie Carlson, Deborah Douglas, Nathan Ensmenger, Thomas Haigh, Gabrielle Hecht, Chris Jones, Nina Lerman, Thomas Misa, Fred Quivik, Eric Rau, Yasushi Sato, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudemaier, Jeff Tang, Jeremy Vetter, and Audra Wolfe. Many HSS folks are in leadership positions: Bernie Carlson is SHOT Secretary, John Staudemaier is the (long-time but retiring) editor of Technology and Culture; Thomas Haigh, Corinna Schlombs and Ann Greene are SIG (special interest group) leaders; Deborah Douglas, Nina Lerman, Amy Slaton, Glenn Bugos, Atsushi Akera, John Staudemaier and Karl-erik Michelsen serve on SHOT committees.
HSS graduate students hosted the Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine on October 9-10.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan has recently given the following talks: "Climbing Up The Slippery Slope," at a conference on Religion and Genetics at the University of Minnesota in September, and "Archibald Garrod and the Origins of Personalized Medicine," at the CIGHT Symposium at Penn. She served on a panel at the [public] Symposium on Regenerative Medicine for Penn's Genome Frontiers Institute at the Franklin Institute in September, and at the recent SHOT meeting she chaired and participated on a panel about "Why there are So Few Women Engineers."
Ann Greene's book,Horses At Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008) has received the Fred B. Kniffen Award for best authored book from the Pioneer America Society.
