The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute is pleased to announce our 2022–2023 class of fellows.
Hailing from a diverse list of local, national, and international institutions, our incoming fellows will use our collections to study a wide range of topics in the history and social studies of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
In addition to our postdoctoral, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term research fellows, this year’s class also includes a cohort of two-year curatorial fellows, the first of its kind at the Institute. Scholars from this new fellowship program will assist with ongoing projects as staff members, expanding and exploring interpretive programs for our library and museum.
Curatorial Fellows
Sherri Sheu (University of Colorado Boulder) | Haas Curatorial Fellow
Focus: Museum Interpretation Projects
Shuko Tamao (University at Buffalo) | Cain Curatorial Fellow
Focus: Oral History Projects
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Armel Cornu (Uppsala University) | Price Postdoctoral Fellow
The Transmission of Sensory Knowledge in 18th-Century Chemistry
Louis Gerdelan (Harvard University) | Haas Postdoctoral Fellow
Catastrophic Knowledge: The Investigation of Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, ca.1605–1780
Bono Shih (Virginia Tech) | Cain Postdoctoral Fellow
Engineering at the Crossroads of Chemistry and Industry: Developing Ideas of Chemical Engineering, 1880–1980
Meagan S. Allen | Cain 80/20 Postdoctoral Fellow
Roger Bacon’s Medical Alchemy: Occult Remedies and the Quest to Prolong Life
George Borg | National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Instrumental Revolution in Geochemistry
Dissertation Fellows
Rebecca L. Jackson (Indiana University) | Doan Dissertation Fellow
Measuring “Well:” Clinical Measuring Practices and Philosophy of Measurement
Miriam F. Lipton (Oregon State University) | Cain Dissertation Fellow
Bacteriophages and Antibiotics: The History of Cold War Politics of Antibiotic Resistance
Rohini Patel (University of Toronto) | Haas Dissertation Fellow
Chemical Modernities: Politics of Production, Waste, and Empire in Elmira, Ontario, 1940–2000
Gustave Lester (Harvard University) | Dissertation Fellow in Residence
Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of U.S. Industrial Capitalism, 1780–1880
Distinguished Fellow
Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota) | Cain Distinguished Fellow
Cinema’s Militant Chemistry: Film and its Raw Materials
Cain Conference Fellows
Jeremy A. Greene (The Johns Hopkins University), Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger, Norway), Victoria Lee (Ohio University), Amy Slaton (Drexel University)
Embedded Connections: Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science
Beckman Center Short-Term Fellows
Nicholas Allred (Rutgers University) | Allington Fellow
Character Under the Influence in 18th-Century Britain
Kerri Arsenault (Independent Scholar) | Ullyot Scholar
Body of Evidence: A New Biography of Rachel Carson
Marcus Carrier (Bielefeld University) | Cain Fellow
Chemistry without Substance: The History and Epistemic Status of Computational Chemistry
Matthew Crawford (Kent State University) | Cain Fellow
Where Was the Enlightenment? Silver Mining, Technology, and Expertise in Late Colonial Peru, 1780–1820
David Dunning (University of Oxford) | Herdegen Fellow
To Program Language: A History of What We Talk with in the Age of Computing
Deborah Garwood (Drexel University) | Otlet Fellow
Exploring Collaborative Documentary Practices for Science History Institute’s Oral History Collection
Susannah Glickman (Columbia University) | Cain Fellow
Quantum, “Tech,” and the New Central Planning
Daniel Graham (Slippery Rock University) | Mistry Fellow
Structures of Change in a Chemical Age
Sarah Hijmans (Université de Paris) | Doan Fellow
Between the Scientific and the Domestic: Anna Sundström’s Work in Berzelius’s House, 1819–1835
Sofiya Kamalova (University of Valencia) | Seidel Fellow
The Making of Toxic Ignorance in Occupational Health: The Ardystil Syndrome, a Collective Intoxication at the Workplace in Late 20th-Century Spain
Margaret Maurer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Allington Fellow
Everyday Alchemy
Odinn Melsted (Maastricht University) | Cain Fellow
Chemical Perspectives: The Oil Industry, Geochemical Exploration Techniques, and Alternative Fuels Research in the 1970s
Edoardo Pierini (University of Geneva) | Allington Fellow
Chemical Medicines and Dangerous Drugs: Sources and Impact of Angelo Sala’s Opiologia
Rosalind Powell (University of Bristol) | Haas Fellow
Bodies of Knowledge: Discourses of Self-Experimentation in the Long 18th Century
Shoshana Simons (University of California Berkeley) | Cain Fellow
The Digitization of Chemistry and Computing
Geert Somsen (Maastricht University) | Röhm and Haas Fellow in Focus
Why Gather? Reflections on the History (and Future) of Scientific Conferences
Gina Surita (Princeton University) | Haas Fellow
The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970
Science History Institute Research Fellow
Mary Ellen Bowden | Senior Research Fellow