I have the pleasure of working with a wonderful community of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Learn more about their projects below.
Current Graduate Students
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Kathryn B. Carpenter
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science
Chasers: A Scientific and Cultural History of Tornado Science and Severe Storm Interception in America after World War II
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Alice Hong
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science
Between Breath and Sea: Sea Women and the Transpacific Entanglements of Science and Gender
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Ingrid Lao
Ph.D. Candidate, History & Theory of Architecture
co-advising with M. Christine Boyer
From Mud Huts to the ‘People’s Cement’: Architecture and Imaginative Rediscovery Between Ghana and the U.S. after 1968
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Eva Molina Flores
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science
The Frozen Wild: A Natural History of British Polar Exploration, 1818–1914
Graduate Alumni, VSRCs, & Postdoctoral Fellows
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Michael McGovern
Ph.D. History of Science, 2023
co-advised with Keith Wailoo
Justice in Numbers: Statistics and the Transformation of Civil Rights in Modern America
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Jay Stone
Ph.D. History of Science, 2023
co-advised with Keith Wailoo
Sweet Deception: A History of the Health Politics of Saccharin in the United States
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Elaine Ayers
Ph.D. History of Science, 2019
co-advised with D. Graham Burnett
Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth-Century Tropics
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Ingrid Ockert
Ph.D. History of Science, 2018
The Scientific Storytellers: How Scientists, Journalists, and Actors Brought Science onto American Television, 1948-1980
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Emily Kern
Ph.D. History of Science, 2018
co-advised with Michael Gordin
Out of Asia: A Global History of the Scientific Search for the Origins of Humankind, 1800-1965
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Amrita Dasgupta
History, VSRC, April 2023
Sponsored by the OSUN Graduate Research Mobility Fund
A Gendered History of the Indian Ocean World: Trafficking and Climate Exile in “Difficult Geographies.”
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Sophia Gräfe
History of Science, VSRC, Spring 2021
Sponsored by the DAAD
Behavioural Knowledge: Scenes of Writing and Observing Behaviour at the Zoological Institute of the Humboldt-University in Berlin (1948–1968)
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Nicole Welk-Joerger
HMEI Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021
co-mentored with Allison Carruth
Feeding Others to Feed Ourselves: Animal Nutrition and the Politics of Health, 1900-2019
Undergraduate Alumni: Senior Theses
Jamie Feder (2023), “A Female Science Activist? The Horror! Comparing the Life Experiences and Media Perceptions of Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and Greta Thunberg.”
Theo Mitchell (2023), “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires? Smokey Bear and the Relationship Between Forest Service Wildfire Policy and Messaging.”
Wendi Yan (2023), “Making Sense of Icy Times: Early Cold War Science in Alaska and the Founding Years of Arctic Research Laboratory.” **Awarded the Horace H. Wilson ’25 Senior Thesis Prize in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Andrew Arking (2022), “The New STEM: Science, Theology, Evolution, and Modernity: The History of Orthodox Jewish Responses to Evolution.”
Faith Emba (2021), “Pills and Cigarettes, Tailored for the Feminine Hand: Sociocultural Pathologies and Anxiety Consumerism in America, 1955-1975.”
Olivia Hadley (2021), “Saving Rassawek: Justice for the Monacan Indian Nation and Historical Memory in Virginia.”
Allie Klimkiewicz (2019), “A Double-Edged Thermometer: Mass Media’s Depiction of Climate Change and Global Warming in the United States, 1988-2000.”
Rachel Linfield (2019), “A Bundle of Sadness: Medicalization of Postpartum Depression.” **Awarded the Horace H. Wilson ’25 Senior Thesis Prize in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Samuel Schultz (2019), “Do Androids Dream of Electric Programmers? Popular Imagination and the Rise of Corporate Artificial Intelligence.”
Clare Jeong (2018), “Fishing for Justice: Maori Culture and Economic Rights in New Zealand.”
Deion King (2018), “Reinventing Trust Without Authority: Philosophies of Cryptography and Decentralization.”
Andrew O'Connell (2018), “Evolving the Internet: How Entrepreneurs and Innovators Commercialized the World Wide Web.”
George Camerlo (2017), “Advancing the Race: Eugenics and Black Intellectual Readership in the Progressive Era.”
Alexandria Robinson (2017), “A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Raising a Black Gay Consciousness in Washington, DC 1970-1990.”
Alexandra Gurel (2015), “Conflict and Cooperation: The Rockefeller Foundation's Relationship with Medical and Nursing Schools of São Paulo, 1916-1944.” **Awarded the Horace H. Wilson ’25 Senior Thesis Prize in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Kristen McDonald (2015), “Choices and Constraints: Women in Science in the early Twentieth Century.”
Emi Alexander (2014), “The History of Soap: The Slippery Reliance on Chemistry in the Birth of the Modern Soap Making Industry.”
Laura Eckhardt (2014), “Science and Culture of Dying: A History of Dr. Dame Cicely Saunders and the Modern Hospice Movement, 1960-1980.”
Allen Paltrow-Krulwich (2014), Independent Concentration Program, “An Introduction to the Digraphic Format, with Application to the Library Arts & Sciences.”
Caitlin Blosser (2013), “Maintaining the Status Quo: Racial Inequality in Film During the Civil Rights Era.”
Natasha Phidd (2013), “Social Dances: The Eroticization of African-American Identity in the United States, 1920-1940s.”