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).