Alumni

Program in the History of Science and Medicine

List of Alumni and their Dissertation Titles
Year	Name	Dissertation Title
2025	Caitlin Kossmann	“The Poetics of Gaia: Planetary Life and Problems of Relation, 1941-2019”
2024	Angelica Clayton	“Traumatic Information: Interpersonal Violence and the Cybernetic Human”
2024	Deborah Streahle	“Care Underground: Activists and the Transformation of American Dying in the 1960s”
2023	Maya Sandler	“All Inclusive Care: Infrastructures of Aging Activism, 1965-1987”
2023	Simon Torracinta	“Economy of Desire: The Sciences of Human Wants, 1870-1950”
2022	Liana DeMarco	“Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763-1868”
2022	Megann Licskai	“Pro-Life Science: The Production and Circulation of Reproductive Knowledge in North American Anti-Abortion Movements, 1968-2003”
2022	Gourav Krishna Nandi	“A Crisis of Health: Health Planning and Urban Health in Early Postcolonial India, 1947-1960”
2022	Sarah Pickman	“The Right Stuff: Material Culture, Comfort, and the Making of Explorers, 1820-1940”
2021	Barbara Di Gennaro	“The Reinvention of Theriac. Pharmacy, State, and the Market in Italy (1490-1640)”
2020	Nientara Anderson	“There are Medics in the Crowd”: Medical Aid and Politics of Protest at the 1970 May Day Rally to Free Bobby Seale
2020	Jonny Bunning	“Life as Investment: How Humans Became Capital, 1890-1980”
2020	Caroline Lieffers	“Imperial Ableism: Disability and American Expansion, c. 1850-1930”
2020	Haesoo Park	“An Epigenetic Century: The History and Future of a New Science of Life”
2020	Ashanti Shih	“Invasive Ecologies: Science and Settler Colonialism in Twentieth-Century Hawai’i”
2019	Charlotte Abney Salomon	“Products of the Mineral Kingdom: Mineral Science in Sweden, 1740-1820”
2019	Katherrine Healey	“Lending Their Ears: Hearing, Deafness, and Aural Citizenship in World War II America”
2019	Catherine Mas	“The Culture Brokers: Medicine and Anthropology in Global Miami, 1960-1995”
2019	Laurel Waycott	“The Pattern-Seekers: The Science of Discernment, 1850-1920”
2018	Tess Lanzarotta	“Unsettling Biomedicine: Research, Care, and Indigenous Rights in Cold War Alaska”
2017	Marco Ramos	“Making Disappearance Visible: Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Human Rights in Cold War Argentina”
2016	Sakena Abedin	“Doctor’s Orders: Medicine, Social Science and the Study of Patient Compliance, 1950-1990”
2016	Gerardo Con Diaz	“Intangible Inventions: A History of Software Patenting in the United States, 1945-1985”
2016	Jenna Healey	“Sooner or Later: Age, Pregnancy, and the Reproductive Revolution in Late Twentieth-Century America”
2015	Mary Augusta Brazelton	“Vaccinating the Nation: Public Health and Mass Immunization in Modern China, 1900–60”
2015	Tyler Griffith	“Seeing Race: Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century”
2015	Kathryn Irving	“Happy and Useful: Educating Children with Disabilities in Nineteenth-Centurty America”
2015	Heidi Knoblauch	“Patient’s Posture: Medical Photography, Collecting, and Privacy, 1862–1962”
2015	Kelly O’Donnell	“The Political is Personal: Barbara Seaman and the History of the Women’s Health Movement”
2015	Joy Rankin	“Personal Computing before Personal Computers: The Origins of America’s Digital Culture”
2015	Rachel Rothschild	“A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International Diplomacy on Acid Rain”
2015	Vreni Schoenenberger	“Sour Milk: The World Health Organization, Policy Production, and the Nestle Infant Formula Controversy”
2015	Ying Jia Tan	“Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of the Party-State in China and Taiwan, 1937–1957”
2015	Courtney Thompson	“Criminal Minds: Medicine, Law, and the Phrenological Impulse in America, 1830–1890"
2014	Justin Barr	“Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880–1960”
2014	Robin Scheffler	“Cancer Viruses and the Construction of Biomedicine in the United States from 1900 to 1980”
2014	Paul Shin	“Entertaining Cures: Mesmerism, Anesthesia, and the Public Culture of Science in Nineteenth Century America"
2013	Ziv Eisenberg	“The Whole Nine Months: Women, Men, and the Making of Modern Pregnancy in America”
2013	Heather Varughese	“Practicing Physicians: The Intern & Resident Experience in the American Medical Education, 1945–2003”
2012	Helen Anne Curry	“Accelerating Evolution, Engineering of Life: American Agriculture and Technologies of Genetic Modification, 1925–1960”
2012	Deborah Doroshow	“Emotionally Disturbed: Residential Treatment, Child Psychiatry, and the Creation of Normal Children in Mid-Twentieth-Century America”
2012	Rana Hogarth	“Comparing Anatomies, Constructing Races: Medcine and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1787–1838”
2011	Brendan Matz	“Crafting Heredity: The Art and Science of Livestock Breeding in the United States and Germany, 1860–1914”
2010	Alistair Marcus Kwan	“Architectures of Astronomical Observation: From Sternwarte Kassel (ca. 1560) to the Radcliffe Observatory (1772)"
2009	Brian Patrick Casey	“Against the Materialists: John Carew Eccles, Karl Raimund Popper, and the Ghost in the Machine”
2009	Julia F. Irwin	“Humanitarian Occupations, Foreign Relief and Assistance in the Formation of American International Identities"
2008	Crispin Barker	“Biomedical Research into Human Aging, 1937–1998”
2008	Todd Olszewski	“Cholesterol: A Scientific, Medical, and Social History, 1908–1962”
2007	Kari Suzanne McLeod	“Health Matters: Public Understanding of Health in 1950s America”
2006	Christiane Nockels Fabbri	“Continuity and Change in Late Medieval Plague Medicine: A Survey of 152 Plague Tracts from 1348 to 1599”
2006	Beth O’Donnell Linker	“For Life and Limb: The Reconstruction of a Nation and its Disabled Soldiers in World War I America”
2006	Sally Dunne Romano	“The Dark Side of the Sun: Skin Cancer, Sunscreen, and Risk in Twentieth-Century America”
2006	Neeraja Sankaran	“Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Nature of the Bacteriophage, 1925–1937"
2005	David K. Hecht	“Tumult in the Clouds: Robert Oppenheimer and American Science”
2005	Mary Yearl	“The Time of Bloodletting”
2003	Gretchen Marie Krueger	“‘A cure is near’: children, families, and cancer in America, 1945–1980”
2003	Sarah Janvier Lewis	“Jean Pecquet (1622–1674) and the Thoracic duct: the controversy over the circulation of the blood and lymph in seventeenth-century Europe”
2001	Frederick Rowe Davis	“Pesticides and toxicology: episodes in the evolution of environmental risk assessment (1937–1997)”
2001	Danian Hu	“Einstein and His Relativity Theory in China: The Introduction, Assimilation and Reaction, 1917–1979”
2001	Randy Ryan Kidd	“New wine in old wineskins: traditional beliefs about the heart and blood among the Oxford Group, 1650–1680”
1998	James G. Hanley	“All actions great and small: English sanitary reform, 1840–1865”
1998	Louise Yvonne Palmer	“The early scientific work of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: in the field and in the laboratory, 1763–1767”
1997	Gwen Elizabeth Kay	“Regulating Beauty: Cosmetics in American culture from the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act to the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act”
1995	Mary P. Sutphen	“Imperial Hygiene in Calcutta, Cape Town, and Hong Kong: The Early Career of Sir William John Ritchie Simpson (1855–1931)”
1994	Jonathan William Engel	“Deinstitutionalization in Maryland: A state’s response to Federal legislation 1945–1975”
1993	Terrie M. Romano	“Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science”
1991	Thomas Peter Gariepy	“Mechanism without metaphysics: Henricus Regius and the establishment of Cartesian medicine”