Recent Graduates 2007 James A. Schafer Thesis: "Finding a Niche: Doctors, Urban Change, and the Business of Private Medical Practice in Philadelphia, 1900-1940" Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Houston Email: jschafe2@jhem.jhmi.edu Barbara Chubak M.A. Thesis: "Unmade Men: Impotence in Eighteenth-Century England" Resumed Medical School at Johns Hopkins 2007-8 2006 Alexa Green Thesis: The Market Cultures of William Beaumont: Ethics, Science, and Medicine in Antebellum America, 1820-1865 (Fissell) 2005 Nancy L. Medley M.A. Thesis: Women's Biography in the Practice of Franklin P. Mall's Human Embryology, 1900-1918. (Marks) 2004 Lloyd Ackert Thesis: From the 'Thermodynamics of Life' to Ecological Microbiology: Sergei Vinogradskii and the 'Cycle of Life,' 1850-1950. (Todes) Current affiliation: Lecturer, Department of History & Politics, Drexel University Email: lloydackert@sbcglobal.net Jesse Bump Thesis: The Lion's Gaze: African River Blindness from Tropical Curiosity to International Development. (Marks) Current affiliation: Consultant, Human Development Department, The World Bank Email: jbbump@jhu.edu 2003 Susan J. Ferry Thesis: Bodily Knowledge: Female Body Culture and Subjectivity in Manchester, 1870-1900. (Fissell) Email: sueferry@hotmail.com William Harry York Thesis: Evidence and Theory in Medical Practice During the Later Middle Ages: Valesco de Tarenta (FL. 1382-1426) at the Court of Foix. (Bylebyl) Current affiliation: Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (Humanities), Honors Program, Portland State University Email: why@teleport.com 2001 Kathleen M. Crowther Thesis: Creating Adam and Eve: Body, Soul, and Gender in 16th century Germany. (Fissell) Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, History of Science Department, University of Oklahoma. 2000 Melody R. Herr Thesis: Communities of American Archaeology: Identity in the Era of Professionalization. (Todes). She is the author of a number of articles and books for young readers, including Summer of Discovery (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), an adaptation for middle schoolers of her doctoral thesis on Great Plains archaeology. Current affiliation: Acquisitions Editor at University of Michigan Press. Laura Davidow Hirshbein Thesis: The Transformation of Old Age: Expertise, Gender and National Identity, 1900-1950. (Marks) Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School 1999 Trudy Eden Thesis: "Makes Like, Makes Unlike": Food, Health, and Identity in the Early Chesapeake.(Brieger) Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Northern Iowa 1997 Walton O. Schalick, III Thesis: Add One Part Pharmacy to One Part Surgery and One Part Medicine; Jean De St. Amand and the Development of Medical Pharmacology in Thirteenth Century Paris. (Bylebyl) Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Medical History and Bioethics, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, and History of Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Email: schalick@wisc.edu 1996 Chandak Sengoopta Thesis: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna: Otto Weininger and the Meanings of Gender. (Todes) His revised thesis was published as Otto Weininger: Sex, Science and Self in Imperial Vienna (University of Chicago Press, 2000). He has also published, Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India (MacMillan, 2003) and The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Current Affiliation: Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine, Birkbeck College, London. Email: c.sengoopta@bbk.ac.uk Web page: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/staff/chandaksengoopta 1995 Kimberly A. Pelis Thesis: Charles Nicolle: Pasteur's Imperial Missionary, Typhus and Tunisia (University of Rochester Press, 2006). Current Affiliation: Office of Communications and Public Liaison, N.I.H.
1994 Howard Markel Thesis: Layers of Separation: Epidemics and the Quarantining of Eastern EuropeanJewish Immigrants in New York City During the Late 19th Century. (Brieger) Current affiliation: George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Director, Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine. 1991 Jane Eliot Sewell Thesis: Bountiful Bodies: Spencer Wells, Lawson Tait, and the Birth of British Gynecology. (Todes) Co-author with Louis Galambos of Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharpe & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). |