Fellows & Affiliates, 2020-2021
Residential Research Fellows
Melissa CharenkoAssistant Professor of History, Michigan State University
Project: Science as Prophecy: Measuring Climates Past and Future
Christopher Sellers
Professor of History, Stony Brook University
Project: Petropolis: A City Built on a Petrochemical Industrial Base
Internal Research Fellows
Jonathan C. Brown, Professor of History
Project: The World According to Omar Torrijos
Laurie B. Green, Associate Professor of History
Project: The Discovery of Hunger in America: A Site of Public Crisis over Race, Health, and Democracy
Julie Hardwick, John E. Green Regents Professor of History
Project: The Material Culture of Precarity: Foundling Tokens, Emotions and Family Histories in Eighteenth-Century France
Neil D. Kamil, Associate Professor of History
Project: Portable Lives: Refugees, Mobility, and Materiality in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1685-1800
Internal Postdoctoral Fellows
Nicolás A. González-Quintero
Project: Empire, Slavery, and Exile in the 19th Century Spanish Caribbean
Rupali Warke
Project: Secluded Capital: Aristocratic Women and Opium in Nineteenth-Century South Asia
Graduate Research Assistant
Brittany Erwin
Doctoral Candidate in History, and Coordinator, New Work in Progress Series
Visiting Research Affiliates
Rodolfo John Alaniz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Project: Darwin in the Deep: Marine Invertebrates, Evolutionary Methodologies, and the Nineteenth-Century Debate Over Natural Selection
Scottie Hale Buehler, C.P.M., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Project: Being and Becoming a Midwife in the French Atlantic (1750-1820)
Marta Kane, Ph.D.
Research Associate in History & Social Sciences
University of Montpellier | Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (France)
Project: Franco-American Exchanges in Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics from 1870 to 1932
John Lisle, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Project: Science and Espionage: How the State Department and the CIA Deployed American Scientists during the Cold War
Carla Rahn Phillip, Ph.D.
Union Pacific Professor Emerita in Comparative Early Modern History, University of Minnesota
Project: Early Modern Exploration and Other Maritime Topics
William D. Phillips, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Minnesota
Project: European World in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Lydia Pyne, Ph.D.
Writer and Historian
Project: Genuine Fakes: The Obsession with Authenticity
Joshua L. Roebke
Author, Instructor, Historian of Science
Project: The Invisible World: The Story of Physics in the Twentieth Century
Lena Oak Suk, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Project: In the Darkness of the Cinema: Gender, Race, and Urban Space in Brazil
Nancy Tomes, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University
Project: When Global Health Fails: Accountability and its Discontents
Kristin Wintersteen, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Project: The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem
Past Fellows and Affiliates by Year
- 2019-20
- 2018-19
- 2017-18
- 2016-17
- 2015-16
- 2014-15
- 2013-14
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09