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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.
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. Johns Hopkins Working Group on Population Migration and Disease
(Organized by the Institute for the History of Medicine with the Department of Infectious Diseases)
September 2005 - May 2006 The goal of this working group is to build interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between public health and biomedical experts who focus primarily on health outcomes and social scientists who study the political, social, and economic processes that fuel large- and small-scale human migration, often with significant impact on health indicators.
Women, Health & Healing in Early-Modern Europe
(Organized by Professor Fissell)
April 21, 2006
Revisit our recent conferences: Institute for the History of Medicine and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center 'Witness Seminar'
(Organized by Dr. Krueger) On March 18, 2005, the Institute for the History of Medicine and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center brought together a dozen investigators who have made significant contributions to laboratory and clinical cancer research at Johns Hopkins. By convening this small group of key individuals, the event documented the historical evolution of the Cancer Center and, more broadly, the history of Oncology at Johns Hopkins.
Putting History into Medicine
(Organized by Professor Fissell) On March 8, 2003, the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins held a one day workshop on the teaching of the history of medicine in medical schools. What follows is a summary of the day's discussions, a few sample syllabi, and directions on how to join the listserv generated from our daylong conversation.
Drug Development for Alzheimer's Disease: Historical and Clinical Perspectives. An Interdisciplinary Conference.
(Organized by Professor Ballenger) On March 26, 2004 in the Turner Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, researchers, clinicians, and scholars from various disciplines met as part of the special 10th Anniversary Two-Day Update on the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. | 
