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GRADUATE PROGRAM
The
graduate fellowship in
SCIENCE IN HUMAN CULTURE
The SHC graduate program admits an annual graduate fellow in the
history of science, medicine, or technology. The fellow is admitted
to the History Department and must apply to that department and
satisfy is usual criteria of admission for Ph.D. candidates. The
2006-2007 annual stipend is $19,140 for the first year in residence,
which includes a tuition waiver and summer funding. Fellows who
continue in good standing are then guaranteed an additional four
years of funding in exchange for providing teaching assistance.
Beyond the fifth year, the department has an excellent track-record
of funding candidates, helping them secure outside funding, and
ultimately jobs in academia. For the department's requirements,
please turn to the Department
of History. To apply, visit the website of The
Graduate School. For more information about the graduate
program, contact the program director, Ken
Alder.
Current
graduate fellows include:
Genevieve Landis, entered 2006.
Teri
Chettiar, entered 2005.
Courtney
Kneupper, entered 2004.
Darcy
Hughes Heuring , entered 2003, A.B.D., dissertation project: “Colonial Health and the Responsibilities of Empire: Great Britain, American Philanthropy, and the Problem of ‘Improvement’ in the Early Twentieth-Century British West Indies.”
Elise
Lipkowitz, entered 2002, A.B.D., dissertation project: “The Sciences
Are Never At War?: Nationalism and the Transformation of the Cosmopolitan
Republic of Science, 1780-1815.”
Recent
graduates of the program include:
Guy
Ortolano, Ph.D., History 2005. Dissertation title: "The
'Two Cultures': Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in
Postwar Britain." Currently Assistant Professor, History
Dept., Washington University of St. Louis.
Alison
Pion, Ph.D.,History 2004. Dissertation title: "Progressive
Thought and the Rhetoric of Reproduction in Late Victorian Britain."
Christopher
Tassava, Ph.D., History 2003. Dissertation title: "Launching
a Thousand Ships: Wartime Shipbuilding and American State Enterprise,
1940-1947." Currently Adjunct Professor, Carleton College, Minnesota.
Dario
Gaggio, Ph.D., History, 1999. Dissertation title: "In
Gold We Trust: The Development of the Italian Gold Jewelry Districts
from the Late 19th Century to the Post-W.W.II Economic 'Miracle'." Currently Associate Professor of history, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor.
Karl
Appuhn, Ph.D., History 1999. Dissertation title: "Environmental
Politics and State Power in Early Modern Venice, 1300-1650." Currently Assistant Professor of history, New York University.
Rob
Kieley, Ph.D. History, 1995. Dissertation title: "The
Architect in the Alembic: Chemistry, Neoplatonism, and Religion
in Seventeenth Century English Generation Theory." Currently
Assistant Professor of history, Illinois Mathematics and Science
Academy.
Katherine
Anderson, Ph.D., History, 1995. Dissertation title: "Practical
Science: Meteorology and the Forecasting Controversy in mid-Victorian
Britain." Currently Associate Professor of history, York
University, Ontario, Canada.
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