Congratulations to our Graduate Students!
Paul Burnett has received the Communicating within the Curriculum (CWiC) Fellowship at Penn for 2007-08. CWiC is a program that supports the development of Penn undergraduates' oral-communication skills.
Elise Carpenter has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences.
Matthew Hersch has been awarded the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Guggenheim Fellowship, which will support one year of research in residence at the Museum. He has a forthcoming article, "RETURN OF THE LOST SPACEMAN: America's Astronauts in Popular Culture, 1959–2006," in the Journal of Popular Culture.
Eric Hintz has won a research fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Eric's grant will support research in the records of the American Institute of the City of New York for the Encouragement of Science and Invention, housed at the New-York Historical Society. From 1828 to 1983, the Institute organized exhibitions, lecture series and radio broadcasts and generally served as a locus for inventors’ professional activities. This research will contribute to Eric's dissertation, entitled "The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950." Eric also won the K. Austin Kerr Prize (2007) which is awarded for the best first paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar.
Andi Johnson has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences.
Emily Pawley has received the John C. Haas Fellowship and the Roy G. Neville Fellowship, both of which were awarded to her by the Chemical Heritage Foundation. In addition, Emily has been awarded a one month residential fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia from the Program in Early Economy and Society (PEAES). Emily has also won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant, which she will use to visit small rural archives in Upstate New York, as a part of her dissertation, tentatively titled "The Balance Sheet of Nature:" Quantifying the New York Farm, 1820-1860.
Corinna Schlombs has been awarded a Deutsches Museum Fellowship to fund archival research for her dissertation, and an NSF dissertation improvement grant. Corinna was also awarded the 2007-2008 Adell and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Processing from the Charles Babbage Institute.
Perrin Selcer has a forthcoming article, "Standardizing Wounds: Alexis Carrel and the Scientific Management of Life in WWI," in the British Journal for the History of Science. He has also been awarded the Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-ACLS IDRF) that will support him for a year of research in Europe and Egypt.
Dominique Tobbell has been awarded the John C. Haas Fellowship in the History of Chemical Industries from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the John E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History. In addition she has received the Miller Center Fellowship from the Miller Center of Public Affairs; the fellowship supports research and writing on American politics, foreign policy and world politics. Domininque has an upcoming article, "Allied against reform: pharmaceutical industry-physician relations in the U.S, 1945-1970" in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Winter 2008).
Damon Yarnell was recently awarded the Benson Ford Center's Clark Research Grant to fund work on "Behind the Line: Purchasing Agents, Shortage Chasers and the Advent of Mass Production at Ford Motor Company," a chapter in his forthcoming dissertation.
