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We Congratulate Our Graduate Students! Melissa Grafe and Katherine Arner will be presenting their work to the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, August, 2009.
Spring 2009 News: Sandra Eder has received a 2009 Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship Susan Lamb won a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for 2009 Melissa Grafe has been offered and accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Lehigh University Pierce Salguero has received the Mellon American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2009 Johns Hopkins University, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences,
Dean’s Teaching Fellowships 2008-2009: ~ Massimo Petrozzi
Thinking and Living with Animals: Human Relationship in History, Fall 2008
~ Katherine Reinhart
Understanding the Heavens: The History of Astronomy from Hipparchus to Hubble, Spring 2009
~ Susan Lamb
History of Psychiatry: Medicine and Madness from Antiquity to the Present, Spring 2009
~ Sandra Eder
Sexing the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine, Fall 2009 Dean’s Teaching Fellowships 2007-2008: ~ C. Pierce Salguero
History of Religion and Medicine in India, Fall 2007 Research Fellowships: ~ C. Pierce Salguero
Fulbright Institute of International Education (IIE) Fellowship and Fulbright Critical Language Extension Award to support his dissertation research in Taiwan, June 2008-July 2009
~ Massimo Petrozzi
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2008
The Singleton Travel Fellowship, Summer 2008 ~ Olivia Weisser
IHR Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, Institute of Historical Research, 2007
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2007
Theodora Bosanquet Bursary, Funds for Women Graduates, 2007
Summer Research Grant, Johns Hopkins University, Program for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, 2007
Sheldon Hanft Travel Award by the Southern Conference on British Studies, 2009 ~ Abby Markoe
Research Fellowship from the Framework Program for Global Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2007. Funded by the NIH's Fogarty International Center and the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health.
~ Melissa Grafe
Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society, 2007-2008
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2007-2008
Awards for Graduate Student Essays: ~ Susan Lamb
“The Theory and Practice of Adolf Meyer’s Psychobiology: Patient Experiences Inside the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1908-1917” won the 2008 Harold N. Segall Prize for the best graduate student essay for the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. ~ Olivia Weisser
"Boils, Pushes, and Wheals: Reading Bumps on the Body in Early Modern England," Roy Porter Memorial Prize for the best graduate student essay, to be published in Social History of Medicine.
The Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology co-hosted the12th International Conference of the Society of the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine in July of 2008.
New Critical Global Health Studies Seminar
The last decade has seen the emergence of global health as a conceptual framework for understanding the global processes that shape patterns of sickness and health in various parts of the world, as well as the activities of international health organizations, donor countries, national governments, NGOs, and local and transnational advocacy groups in combating health problems around the globe. More recently, a number of scholars have begun to conduct ethnographic and historically informed studies to examine critically these processes and institutions and to interrogate the complex set of political, economic, social, and ecological forces that are driving patterns of sickness and health and responses to them. The Critical Global Health Studies Seminar is designed as a forum to allow interested faculty and students to engage with this emerging body of critical work. The Seminar will begin in March 2008 and will meet three times during the spring. We will continue the seminar in the Fall. Each seminar will feature an invited speaker who will pre-circulate a paper to be discussed during the seminar.
Spring Speakers:
April 8: Daniel Jordan Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Population Studies, Brown University, “Antiretroviral Therapy and Reproductive Behavior in Nigeria: Sex, Marriage and Fertility among People Living with HIV
April 15: Michelle Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, “Economization of Life: Fertility, Economy and Aggregated Life”
April 29: Allan Hill, Andelot Professor of Demography, Harvard School of Public Health, TBA Each speaker will present a paper that is a work in progress. The papers will be circulated electronically to Seminar participants in advance of the session. The paper for the seminar to be held next Tuesday is attached. Speakers will provide a short introduction to their paper, to be followed by comments and questions from a student discussant. The bulk of the seminar time will be devoted to an open (and we hope lively) discussion of the paper. The seminars will be held from 9:00 to 10:30 in the conference room (room 303) of the Department of the History of Medicine, located on the 3rd floor of the Welch Medical Library, East Baltimore Campus. The address of the Library is 1900 East Monument Street.
Institute faculty map historical patterns of health inequality in Baltimore Along with colleagues in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Arizona State University and the University of Minnesota, faculty members in the Institute (Mooney, Packard, Marks) are developing a project that seeks to explain inequalities in infectious disease mortality in Baltimore in the late 19th century. It is our goal to link the demographic information contained on original death certificates in the early 1880s to other sources such as the census, property tax records and maps containing social data. Using multi-level modeling statistical techniques and Geographic Information Systems, we want to understand how individual characteristics (age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, occupation), family circumstances (presence of siblings, domestic overcrowding, access to water supply) and neighborhood context (population density, socio-economic deprivation) all interact to produce variable susceptibilities to diseases such as respiratory tuberculosis, typhoid and smallpox. 
Welcome Gianna Pomata
Please join the Department of the History of Medicine in welcoming our newest faculty member, Dr. Gianna Pomata. Gianna, a specialist in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, comes to us from the University of Bologna. Most recently, she is the editor, with Nancy Siraisi, of Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (MIT, 2005). She is also the author of Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna (1998, Johns Hopkins). She is also the editor, with Lorraine Daston, of The Faces of Nature in Enlightenment Europe (BWV, 2003).
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