Beckman Center Fellows: 1987 to Present

The Beckman Center has hosted scholars from all parts of the world through its fellowships and programs. Below you will find a list of the diverse scholars who have held fellowships with us, along with their research topics and their affiliation at the time of the fellowship.

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Janet Abbate
2003–2004 Garfield Fellow | Smithsonian Institution
The Development of Information Science Specialties, Information Retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction within Academic Computer Science, 1960s–1990s

Pnina Abir-Am
1996–1997 Othmer Scholar | Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
History of Protein Structures in the United States and United Kingdom

Charlotte A. Abney Salomon
2019–2020 Price Fellow, 2020–2021 Cain Fellow | Yale University
Products of the Mineral Kingdom: Mineralogy in Sweden, 1750–1820

Basil Achilladelis
1998–1999 Othmer Scholar | Independent Scholar
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health

Stephen B. Adams
1998–1999 Othmer Scholar | Lucent Technologies
The Progression of the Chemical Industry during the 20th Century
1998 Cain Conference Fellow
The 20th-Century American Chemical Industry

Samuel Alberti
2017–2018 Cain Fellow | National Museum of Scotland
The Material Culture of Contemporary Science

Meagan S. Allen
2020–2023 Cain Fellow | Indiana University
Roger Bacon’s Medical Alchemy: Occult Remedies and the Quest to Prolong Life

Nicholas Allred
2022–2023 Allington Fellow | Rutgers University
Character Under the Influence in 18th-Century Britain

James Altena
1993–1994 Edelstein Fellow | University of Chicago
Science, Philosophy, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany

Siobhan Angus
2021–2022 Haas Fellow | Yale University
Camera Geologica: Materiality, Resource Extraction, and Photography

Thomas Apel
2016–2017 Haas Fellow | Menlo College
Translating Lavoisier: French Chemistry and the Making of American Science, 1790–1830

Kerri Arsenault
2022–2023 Ullyot Scholar
Body of Evidence: A New Biography of Rachel Carson

Taylor Bailey
2025–2027 Cain Curatorial Fellow
Focus: Public History

Sara Bassanelli
2024–2025 Doan Fellow University of Pavia, Italy
The Diplomacy of Standardization: Negotiating International Standards in Physics and Chemistry (1920s–1970s)

Ian Beamish
2012–2013 Haas Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
Saving the South: Printing Agricultural Improvement in the American South, 1820–1865

Jenny Beckman
2015–2016 Allington Fellow | Uppsala University
Berzelius, Publication, and Priority in the First Half of the 19th Century

Elizabeth Bennett
2025–2026 Price-Doan Postdoctoral Fellow
From the Ashes, From the Acid: Histories and Geographies of Coal Refuse Management, Acid Mine Drainage Remediation, and Economic Development in Pennsylvania

Carin Berkowitz
2016 Cain Conference Fellow
Chemistry in the Americas, 1500–1800

Michael Berkowitz
2021–2022 Cain Fellow | University College London
Polaroid, Kodak, Color, and the Off-Color

Julie Bellemare
2021–2022 Cain Fellow | Bard Graduate Center
A New Creation of this Dynasty: Enamels, Glass, and the Deployment of Color in Qing China, 1700–1735

Nadia Berenstein
2014–2015 Haas Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Flavor Added
2024–2025 Haas Presidential Research Fellow | The New School

Elisabeth Berry Drago
2013–2014 Allington Fellow, 2014–2015 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Delaware
Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Practice

José Bertomeu-Sánchez
2010–2011 Doan Fellow | University of Valencia
Between Science and Crime: Mateu Orfila and 19th-Century Toxicology

Nicholas Best
2009–2010 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Indiana University
Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science

Arnav Bhattacharya
2023–2024 Doan Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Rejuvenating and Transforming the Body and the Nation: Overlapping Histories of Sexology and Endocrinology in Early to Mid-20th Century India

Nandini Bhattacharya
2014–2015 Herdegen Fellow | University of Dundee, United Kingdom
The Making of an Industrial Nation: A History of the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries in Indi

Charlotte Bigg
2009–2010 Allington Fellow | CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, France
Spectroscopic Enterprises in the Early 20th Century

Donna Bilak
2019–2020 Allington Fellow | Columbia Univeristy
Transatlantic Chymistry: The Letters and Library of John Allin (1623–1683)
2013–2014 Edelstein Fellow | Bard Graduate Center
The Allegorical Laboratory: Michael Maier’s Alchemical Emblem Book Atalanta fugiens (1617)

Megan Black
2015–2016 Doan Fellow | George Washington University
From Mass Spectrometry to Landsat: Extractive Industries and State Technologies of Geological Prospecting in the 20th Century

David Black
2008–2009 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Mountainland Applied Technology College
The Elements Unearthed: Our Discovery and Usage of the Chemical Elements

Regina Lee Blaszczyk
2002–2003 Edelstein Fellow | Boston University
The Color Revolution

Victor D. Boantza
2006–2007 Neville Fellow | University of Toronto
(Al)Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution: The Case of Samuel C. Duclos

Dóra Bobory
2008–2009 Neville Fellow | Independent Scholar
An Experimental Noble Household: Decoding Count Battyanyi’s Letters on Medical-Alchemical Experiments

Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
2018–2019 Allington Fellow | Humboldt University of Berlin
Color: The Semiotics of Color in Scientific Diagrams (the Periodic Table and the Metabolic Map)

George Borg
2022–2023 National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Beckman Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence
The Instrumental Revolution in Geochemistry

Mary Ellen Bowden
Research Fellow

Ashley Bowen
2019–2020 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow

Jacqueline Boytim
2017–2018 Research Fellow

William Brock
2014–2015 Doan Fellow | University of Leicester, United Kingdom
A Very Short Introduction to the History of Chemistry
1990–1991 Edelstein Fellow | University of Leicester, United Kingdom
At the Sign of the Hexagon: An Illustrated History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology Since 1800

Nathan Brooks
2003–2004 Edelstein Fellow | New Mexico State University
A Biography of Dmitrii Mendeleev

Jeannette E. Brown
2004–2005, 2008–2009 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Independent Scholar
Telling Our Story: History of African American Women Chemists Project

Gregory J. Brust
2000–2001 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | University of Southern Mississippi
Historical Research on the Synthetic Rubber Industry in Order to Create a Multimedia, Educational Website about the History and Development of the Industry

Christiane Buès-Chabas
2000–2001 Ullyot Scholar | Académie d’Aix-Marseille, France
The History of the Concept of the Mole in Physics and Chemistry, and Its Reception in Research Circles and Laboratories

Stefania Buosi Moncunill
2021–2022 Allington Fellow | University of Barcelona, Spain
The Vernacularisation of Alchemy in the Occitan-Catalan Area: The Alchemical Working Manuscripts (Pseudo-Lull, Pseudo-Arnau, John of Rupescissa and Others)

Colin “Brad” Burke
2000–2001 Garfield Fellow | University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The History of Computer-Based Scientific Information Systems and Related Government Policies from the Early 1950s to the 1990s

Ella Butler
2014–2015 Doan Fellow | University of Chicago
Producing Taste: Science and the Senses in the U.S. Processed Food Industry

Andrew Butrica
2012–2013 Doan Fellow | Independent Scholar
Jean-Baptiste Dumas: Promoter of Chemical Industry

Jo Ann Caplin
2009–2010 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Science+Art: Chemistry and Visualizations/Chemistry and Authentication of Art
2006–2007 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Temple Unveristy/Science Television Workshop
The Chemistry of Paint as Used in Art

Alberto Cambrosio
2010 Cain Conference Fellow | McGill University
Personalizing Medicine Here and Now: Empirical Studies of Post-Genomic Medicine

Luis Campos
2025 Cain Conference Fellow | Rice University
The Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology

Marcus Carrier
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | Bielefeld University
Chemistry without Substance: The History and Epistemic Status of Computational Chemistry

Cari Casteel
2016–2017 Price Fellow | Auburn University
The Odor of Things: Deodorant, Gender, and Olfaction in the United States

David Caudill
2007–2008 Fellow | Villanova University
Popular Images of Chemical Expertise, Past and Present: At the Intersection of Law and Chemistry

Max Cavitch
2023–2024 Ullyot Scholar | University of Pennsylvania
Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance

John Ceccati
2009–2010 Haas Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The Development of Pure Yeast Culture in the Brewing Industry and Its Influence on Practices and Instruments of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
1999–2000 Edelstein Fellow | University of Chicago
Connections between the Brewing Industry of 19th-Century Germany and the Dye Industry of the Same Time Period

Augustin Cerveaux
2007–2008 Cain Fellow | Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
From an Art to a Science: Changes in Paint Chemistry and Technology in Progressive-Era America and the Great Depression
2011–2012 Ullyot Scholar | Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
From Bulk Chemistry to Nanoparticles: Another Root for Nanotechnology?

Edward Chappell
2023–2024 Science History Institute Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The Secrets of Wine: Winemaking Manuals, Books of Secrets, and Knowledge in Early Modern Italy

Charnell Chasten Long
2021–2022 Ullyot Scholar | University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fugitive Science Society: A Black Scientific Community’s Vision for Science Education

John Christie
2016 Cain Conference Fellow
Chemistry in the Americas, 1500–1800

Leo Chu
2024–2025 Cain Fellow | University of New South Wales, Australia
From Green Revolution to Green Chemistry: The Chemical Foundation of Sustainable Agriculture, 1960–2010

Sibrina N. Collins
2024 Cain Conference Fellow | Lawrence Technological University
Storytelling as Pedagogy: Historical Biographies in STEM and Social Studies

Elena Conis
2015–2016 Cain Fellow | Emory University
The DDT Myths

Steven Conn
2017 Cain Conference Fellow | Miami University
Where to Put It All? Some Thoughts about Collections, Museums, and History

Cecilio M. Cooper
2024–2025 Price-Doan Postdoctoral Fellow
South of Heaven: Surface, Territory + the Black Chthonic

Angela Cope
2017–2018 Doan Fellow | York University
Plastics: Investigating the Childhood of Modernity’s Most Pejorative Material

Al Coppola
2024–2025 Otlet Senior Fellow | John Jay College, CUNY
Enlightenment Visibilities

Armel Cornu
2022–2023 Price Fellow | Uppsala Unversity
The Transmission of Sensory Knowledge in 18th-Century Chemistry

Matthew Crawford
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | Kent State University
Where Was the Enlightenment? Silver Mining, Technology, and Expertise in Late Colonial Peru, 1780–1820
2017–2018 Doan Fellow | Kent State University
How Drugs Became Modern: The Transition from Botanical Medicaments to Chemical Drugs in Western Medicine
2010–2011 Garfield Fellow | Kent State University
Chemistry in the 18th-Century Spanish Atlantic: An Underappreciated Imperial Science?

Alex Csiszar
2013–2014 Haas Fellow | Harvard University
The Rise of the Scientific Journal in Britain and France

Helen Curry
2011–2012 ACLS/Mellon Fellow | Yale University
Accelerating Evolution, Engineering Life: Science, Agriculture, and Technologies of Genetic Modification, 1925–1955

Arthur Daemmrich
2003 Cain Conference Fellow | Cornell University
Risk and Safety in Medical Innovation
2002 Cain Conference Fellow | Cornell University
Industry and Governance: Changing Relations among Science-Based Corporations, Government, and the Public
2001–2002 Cain Fellow | Cornell University
Corporate Governance: Changing Relations among Science-Based Industry, States, and the Public
2000–2001 Price Fellow | Cornell University
Pharmaceutical Regulation: The Science and Politics of Health in the United States and Germany

Britt Dahlberg
2014–2015 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Envisioning Postindustrial Futures: Community Activism and Government Environmental Health Science

Claiton Marcio da Silva
2025–2026 Haas Senior Fellow | Federal University of the Southern Frontier, Brazil
From Agent Orange to Tordon: Dow Chemical Controversies in Brazil (1970–1985)

Dane Thor Daniel
2005–2006 Neville Fellow | Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
The Theory-Praxis Relationship in Paracelsus’s Medical Treatments

Anastasia Day
2017–2018 Allington Fellow | Hagley Program, University of Delaware
Productive Plots: Nature, Nation, and Industry in the Victory Gardens of the U.S. World War II Home Front

Deanna Day
2017 Cain Conference Fellow
My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies
2014–2015 Haas Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Teaching through Toys: Girls Experiencing Science and Technology from Chemistry Sets to the American Girl Dolls
2012–2013 Price Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
98.6: Fevers, Fertility, and the Patient Labor of American Medicine

Kristin DeGhetaldi
2014–2015 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Delaware
Analytical Methods Used to Explore the Evolution from Egg to Oil Paints in Quattrocento Italy

Ute Deichmann
1996–1997 Edelstein Fellow | Universität zu Köln, Germany
The Fate of Jewish Chemists in Nazi Germany and the Effect of Their Expulsion on Chemistry and Biochemistry

Juan Luis Delgado
2013–2014 Doan Fellow | University of La Rioja
Chemical Industry and Chemicals in Spanish Gum Resin Industry, 19th–20th Centuries

John Dettloff
1997–1998 Edelstein Fellow | Princeton University
Chemistry and Culture in France, 1770–1800

David DeVorkin
2016 Cain Conference Fellow | National Air and Space Museum
Life in the Universe: Past and Present

Lloyd DeWitt
2001–2002 Price Fellow | Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Shift in How Chemistry Was Viewed by Outsiders during and after the 17th Century

Nikhil Joseph Dharan
2023–2024 Mistry Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Colonial Alchemies: Chemical Knowledge and Industrialization in South India, 1914–1935
2025–2026 Cain Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Colonial Alchemies: Chemical Knowledge and the Industrial Landscape in South India, 1890–1940

Brian Dick
2016–2017 Research Fellow

Michelle DiMeo
2013–2014 Allington Fellow | College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1615–1691): The Intellectual Life of Robert Boyle’s Older Sister

Adrian Dingle
2014–2015 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | The Westminster Schools
A History of the Chemical Elements—the Who, What, When, and Where

Mark Dorfman
2002–2003 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | University of North Carolina
Enhancing Public Education of the Concept of Biomimicry and Its Crucial Relationship to the Evolution and Advancement of a Sustainable Chemical Industry

Caroline Douglas
2025–2026 Otlet Fellow | Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Cloths of Gold and Silver Stuff: Locating Elizabeth Fulhame in Early Photography

E. A. Driggers
2014–2015 Edelstein Fellow | University of South Carolina
Networks of Nature: Chemistry and the Revival of Humoral Theory

Gildo dos Santos
2013–2014 Ullyot Scholar | University of São Paulo
Ida Noddack and the Universal Function of Matter

David Dunning
2022–2023 Herdegen Fellow | University of North Carolina
To Program Language: A History of What We Talk with in the Age of Computing

Taylor Dysart
2023–2024 Allington Dissertation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The Scientist and the Jaguar: Wondrous Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the Amazon

Roger Eardley-Pryor
2017–2018 Beckman Legacy Project Fellow

Michael Egan
2004–2005 Haas Fellow | Washington State University
The History of Mercury Use in America

Sarah Ehlers
2016–2017 Doan Fellow | University of Leicester
Pharmaceutical Crossings: Chemotherapeutic Research between Europe, Colonial Africa, and the United States

Matthew Eisler
2004–2005 Ullyot Scholar | University of Alberta
The Different Ways Researchers Have Attempted to Develop a Better Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

George Daniel Elliott
2019–2020 Ullyot Scholar | Brown University
Alchemy in the Home: Colonial Connecticut and Household Science in the 17th-Century Anglo-Atlantic

Martha Espinosa
Duke University
The Cold Contraceptive War: Mexico’s ‘Demographic Explosion’ and the Geopolitics of Reproduction

James J. Esposito III
2021–2022 Haas Fellow | The Ohio State University
Between ‘Oxygen Sense’ and Sensors – The Embodied Experience of Anoxia at Earth’s Extremes 1939–1955

Sarah Everts
2011–2012 Ullyot Scholar | Chemical & Engineering News
Sweat Science: The Science, Culture, History, and Commercialization of Perspiration, the Chemical Cocktail That Humanity Produces in Abundant Amounts
2025–2026 Haas Senior Fellow | Carleton University, Canada
Our Odor Awakening

Heather Ewing
2008–2009 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Circle of James Smithson: Mapping an International 18th-Century Community

Thomas Faith
2006–2007 Price Fellow | George Washington University
Peacetime Applications of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service Research

Meredith Farmer
2014–2015 Allington Fellow | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Melville’s Ontology

Gabriele Ferrario
2007–2008 Neville Fellow | Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari
The Arabic and Hebrew Manuscripts of the Liber de aluminibus et salibus

Roksana Filipowska
2015–2016 Doan Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Polymorphous Plasticity: 1960s Artist Experiments in Plastic as Speculative Thought

Gerard Fitzgerald
1999–2000 Haas Fellow | Carnegie Mellon University
Relationship between Scale-Up Technologies Developed for Penicillin Manufacture and Aerosol Technology as It Pertained to Biological Weaponry, 1920–1960
2001–2002 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Carnegie Mellon University
On Biological Weapons Technology Growing out of Evolving Public Health Technologies and Scientific Practices of the Interwar Period
2005–2006 Edelstein Fellow | Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
The Role Played by Scientists and Physicians Who Experimented with the Application of Germicidal Chemicals in the Hopes of Producing Infection-Free Hospital and Living Spaces

Faye Flam
2015–2015 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Bloomberg
Backstory, or How Did They Think of That?

James Rodger Fleming
2011 Cain Conference Fellow | Colby College
Chemical Weather and Chemical Climate: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

Anna Foy
2008–2009 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The Georgic and the Common Weal: Promises of West Indian Improvement from Samuel Martin’s An Essay upon Plantership (1750) to James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (1764)

Adriana Fraser
2025–2026 Seidel Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Making Danger: Biological Weapons Research, Biosafety, and the Management of Microbial Life, 1940–1990

Lynne Friedman
2016–2017 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Freelance Science Writer
Ink Chemists of the Industrial Revolution

Ute Freitsch
2016–2017 Beckman Center Fellow | Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Hidden Helpers? An Investigation into Women’s Activities in Early Modern Alchemy/Chymistry

Yasu Furukawa
1992–1993 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Tokyo Denki University, Japan
History of Polymer Chemistry

Margaret Garber
2002–2003 Haas Fellow | University of California, San Diego
Labors of Light: Optics and Chymical Philosophy in Post-Rudolfine Prague (1611–1670)

Muskan Garg
2025–2026 Mistry Fellow | University of Toronto
Mapping the Global Circulation of Industrial Dyeing Knowledge

Deborah Garwood
2022–2023 Otlet Fellow | Drexel University
Exploring Collaborative Documentary Practices for Science History Institute’s Oral History Collection

Stefano Gattei
2014–2015 Othmer Scholar/Edelstein Fellow | IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
Beyond Galileo: Medicine, Alchemy, and Natural Philosophy at the Lyncean Academy

Kostas Gavroglu
1992–1993 Edelstein Fellow

Francesco Gerali
2015–2016 Doan Fellow | University of Oklahoma
Succinum Resolutum, Hertzerde, and Petroline: Shaping the Idea of Petroleum between 1600 and 1800

Louis Gerdelan
2022–2023 Haas Fellow | Harvard University
Catastrophic Knowledge: The Investigation of Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, ca.1605–1780

Apostolos Gerontas
2014–2015 Doan Fellow | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Large-Scale Chromatography in Industrial Processing
2011–2012 Garfield Fellow | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Writing the History of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

Susannah Glickman
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | Columbia University
Quantum, Tech, and the New Central Planning
2023–2024 Haas Fellow | Stony Brook University
Histories, Tech, and a New Central Planning

Stephen Z. Goldberg
1999–2000 Dreyfus Fellow | Adelphi University
Developing a Curriculum and Coursework on Chemistry in Art and Archaeology

Thea Goldring
2023–2024 Allington Fellow | Harvard University
Drawing Nature: Carême de Fécamp and Scientific Drawing in the Long 18th Century

Jan Golinski
2012–2013 Distinguished Fellow | University of New Hampshire

Rocio Gomez
2018–2019 Science History Institute Fellow | University of Arkansas
Victors and Vanadium: Scientific Discovery during Mexico’s War of Independence

William Goodwin
2010–2011 Allington Fellow | Rowan University
Resolving a Controversy: The Non-Classical Ion Debate

Hugh Gorman
2003–2004 Haas Fellow | Michigan Technological University
The Evolution of the System to Measure, Monitor, and Manage Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides

Daniel Graham
2022–2023 Mistry Fellow | Slippery Rock University
Structures of Change in a Chemical Age

Kate Grauvogel
2018–2019 Allington Fellow | Indiana University
A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones, and Blood Clots, 1784–1969

Jacob Older Green
2021–2022 Cain Fellow | University of California, Los Angeles
The Psychology of Mind-Altering Drugs: 1870–1938

Jeremy A. Greene
2023 Cain Conference Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections

Spring Greeney
2016–2017 Doan Fellow | University of Wisconsin, Madison
What Clean Smells Like: An Environmental History of Doing the Wash, 1841–1992

Ari Gross
2012–2013 Allington Fellow | University of Toronto
Structure and Spatiality: Chemical Diagrams and Models and the Birth of Stereochemistry

Benjamin Gross
2012–2013 Cain Fellow
The Engineer’s Toolkit: Passive Components and the American Electronics Industry
2009–2010 Price Fellow | Princeton University
Crystallizing Innovation: LCD Research at RCA, 1956–1974

Matthias Grote
2014–2015 Ullyot Scholar | Technische Universität Berlin
From “Total Synthesis” to Synthetic Biology? Making Biomolecules with Reagents, Enzymes, and Machines, 1960s–1980s

Rebecca Guenard
2013–2014 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Temple University
Lab Rats: A Chemistry Television Variety Program

Catherine Guise-Richardson
2010–2011 Ullyot Scholar | Mississippi State University
“Mind and Matter: The Development and Marketing of Thorazine and Stelazine at Smith, Kline & French”
2008–2009 Price Fellow | Iowa State University
“Mother’s Little Helper, or, the Tax-Deductible Martini: A History of Valium Development, Use, and Control in the United States”

Christopher Halm
2019–2020 Doan Fellow | University of Regensburg, Germany
Marl and Soil Analyses in the Early History of Agricultural Chemistry

Richard Hamerla
2006–2007 Doan Fellow | Case Western Reserve University
History of Bioweapons Development and Deployment
1998–1999 Doan Fellow | University of Oklahoma
Science on the American ‘Frontier’: The Chemistry of Edward Williams Morley, 1869–1906

Christopher Hamlin
2006 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Notre Dame
Towards a History and Philosophy of Expertise
2005–2006 Doan Fellow | University of Notre Dame
A Comparative Study of Communities of 19th-Century Urban Chemists, Exploring Patterns of Professionalization, and the Balancing of Entrepreneurship, Research, and Public Service

Dehlia Hannah
2013 Cain Conference Fellow | Arizona State University
Sensing Change: Environmental Issues in Art and Science

Owen Hannaway
1993–1994 Edelstein Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
Georgius Agricola: History of Chemical Laboratories

Nicholas Harris
2013–2014 Price Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Better Religion through Chemistry: Aydemir al-Jildakī and Alchemy under the Mamluks

Lisa Haushofer
2015–2016 Haas Fellow | Harvard University
Edible Health: Physiological Chemistry, Public Health, and Consumer Medicinal Food Products, 1884–1939

Harry Hecht
2001–2002 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | South Dakota State University
A Series of Essays on a Variety of Chemical Topics That Are of General Interest

Georgiana Hedesan
2013–2014 Allington Fellow | Oxford University
The Pursuit of Universal Medicine: Alchemical Prolongation of Life and Christianity in 17th-Century Paracelsian and Helmontian Thought

Kit Heintzman
2017–2018 Cain Fellow | Harvard University
Administering the Animal: Veterinary Education and the Making of the French Domestic, 1761–1814

Isabelle Held
2018–2019 Doan Fellow, 2020–2022 Price/Doan Fellow | Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art, London
Designing the Bombshell: Military-Industrial Materials R&D and the Shaping of Women’s Bodies in the US, 1939–1976

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
2015–2016 Otlet Fellow | Linkoping University
Big Bibliography: Science under the Weight of Information Overload

Marieke Hendricksen
2016–2017 Ullyot Scholar | Utrecht University
Boerhaave’s Mineral Chemistry and Its Influence on 18th-Century Pharmacy

Emmanuel Henry
2014–2015 Presidential Fellow

Evan Hepler-Smith
2013–2014 and 2023 Herdegen Fellow | Princeton University
Nominally Rational: Systematic Nomenclature and the Structures of Organic Chemistry, 1889–1935

Hiro Hirai
2020–2021 Science History Institute Fellow | Columbia University
Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Science and Medicine
2008–2009 Edelstein Fellow | Ghent University
Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert

Sarah Hijmans
2022–2023 Doan Fellow | Université de Paris
Between the Scientific and the Domestic: Anna Sundström’s Work in Berzelius’s House, 1819–1835

Eric Hintz
2005–2006 Ullyot Scholar | University of Pennsylvania
The Dual ‘Careers’ of Electro-Chemical Inventor Samuel Ruben and His Most Famous Invention, the Mercuric Oxide Dry Cell ‘Button’ Battery

Alexandre Hocquet and Frédéric Wieber
2018–2019 Otlet Fellow | University of Lorraine
Software Packages in Computational Chemistry

Jessica Hogbin
2024–2025 Allington Fellow | Syracuse University
Innumerable Melancholies: Medicine and Mental Health in Renaissance Italy

Ernst Homburg
2015–2016 Presidential Fellow

Nancy Hopkins-Evans
1998–1999 Ullyot Scholar | Rutgers University
The Contributions of African-Americans to Industrial Chemical Research, Focusing on the Period between 1940 and 1980

Roger Horowitz
2009–2010 Cain Fellow | Hagley Museum and Library
American Kosher: How Orthodox Jews, Food Companies, and Chemistry Created Modern Kosher Food

Alexandra Hui
2022 Cain Conference Fellow | Mississippi State University
Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together

Stephen Irish
2017–2018 Presidential Fellow

Catherine Jackson
2011–2012 Cain Fellow | University College London
Material World: Analysis, Synthesis, and the Making of Modern Chemistry

Rebecca L. Jackson
2022–2023 Doan Fellow | Indiana University
Measuring ‘Well:’ Clinical Measuring Practices and Philosophy of Measurement

Frank James
2021–2022 Cain Fellow | University College London
Humphry Davy: Enlightenment Chemist, Poet, Social Climber

Jeremiah James
2000–2001 Edelstein Fellow | Harvard University
Linus Pauling and Intellectual Genesis of ” The Nature of the Chemical Bond

Lijing Jiang
2017–2018 Allington Fellow | Yale University
Of Goldfish and Scientists: Pets, Food, and Biology in Modern China
2012–2013 Allington Fellow | Arizona State University
Degeneration in Miniature: History of Cell Death and Aging Research in the 20th Century

Timothy Johnson
2014–2015 Allington Fellow | University of Georgia
Growth Industry: Unearthing the Origins of Fertilizer-Fueled Agriculture in America, 1865–1950

Jeffrey A. Johnson
2014–2015 Allington Fellow | Villanova University
From Frankenstein to Artificial Life: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Dolly Jørgensen
2023 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Stavanger, Norway
Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections

Finn Arne Jørgensen
2024–2025 Science History Institute Senior Fellow | University of Stavanger, Norway
Gaming Green Transitions: Petrocultures and Societal Change in Environmental Board Games

Laura Anne Kalba
2012–2013 Ullyot Scholar | Smith College
Color in the Age of Impressionism: Technology, Commerce, and Art

Sofiya Kamalova
2022–2023 Seidel Fellow | University of Valencia
The Making of Toxic Ignorance in Occupational Health: The Ardystil Syndrome, a Collective Intoxication at the Workplace in Late 20th-Century Spain

Stylianos Kampouridis
2014–2015 Allington Fellow | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Bytes as Test Tubes: The Emergence of Computational Quantum Chemistry

Judith Kaplan
2023–2025 Cain Curatorial Fellow | Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Focus: Scientific Biographies

Rebecca Kaplan
2018–2020 Cain Fellow | ACLS Public Fellow, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Treating Animals: Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in the United States during the 19th and 20th Centuries

Allison B. Kavey
2005–2006 Neville Fellow | Gonzaga University
The Changing Constructions of Desire in Popular Natural Philosophical Texts Printed in England Between 1580 and 1680

Gwen Kay
1999–2000 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | SUNY Oswego
The Career Paths of Women Cosmetic Chemists

Carla Keirns
1998–1999 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The History of Asthma, Including Its Causes and Its Cures

Andrew Kettler
2023–2024 Science History Institute Fellow | University of South Carolina-Palmetto College
The Miasmic Theft of Modernity: A Global History of Sulfur

Melanie Kiechle
2010–2011 ACLS/Mellon Public Fellow, 2011–2012 Haas Fellow | Rutgers University
The Air We Breathe: 19th-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
2008–2009 Edelstein Fellow | Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai, Japan
U.S.–Japan Scholarly Relations in Chemistry in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Mi Gyung Kim
1994–1995 Edelstein Fellow | Seoul National University
The Concept of Chemical Affinity and Wilhelm Ostwald’s Energetics

Joel Klein
2017–2018 Haas Fellow | Columbia University
Chymical Life in Early Modern Europe
2013–2014 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Indiana University
2012–2013 Edelstein Fellow | Indiana University
Chymistry, Corpuscular Medicine, and Controversy: The Ideas and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572–1637)

Joseph Klett
2019–2020 Research Fellow
2017–2018 Beckman Legacy Project Fellow

Georgiana Kotsou
2019–2020 Fellow in Residence | Maastricht University

Vangelis Koutalis
2010–2011 Allington Fellow | University of Ioannina, Greece
The Historical Significance of Chemistry as a Philosophical Inquiry

Marcin Krasnodebski
2015–2016 Doan Fellow | University of Bordeaux
Pine Resin Chemistry and Industry in the United States in the First Half of the 20th Century

Prakash Kumar
2001–2002 Edelstein Fellow | Georgia Institute of Technology
The Transition from Natural to Artificial Dyestuffs: Science, Business, and Politics of Natural Indigo Manufacturing in Colonial India, 1890–1930
2002–2003 Ullyot Scholar | Georgia Institute of Technology
The Competitive Relationship between Natural and Synthetic Indigo at the Turn of the 20th Century

Elena Kunadt
2017–2018 Doan Fellow | University of Wuppertal
The Controversy about Atrazine: Ignorance in Environmental Issues

Sarah Lang
2021–2022 Herdegen Fellow/Beckman Center Fellow | University of Graz, Austria
Alchemical Encipherment and Practices of Secrecy: The Example of Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618)

Colleen Lanier-Christensen
2018–2019 Ullyot Scholar | Harvard University
Making Laboratory Practice ‘Good’: Negotiating Transnational Toxicological Standards for Chemical Testing (1971–2010)

Michael Lansing
2018–2019 Doan Fellow | Augsburg University
The Cradle of Carbohydrates: Minneapolis and the Making of the World’s Food

Tayra Lanuza-Navarro
2010–2011 Edelstein Fellow | University of Valencia
Alchemy, Astrology, and Books of Secrets: Ideas and Practices before the Spanish Inquisition

Rebecca Laroche
2011–2012 Allington Fellow | University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Placing Robert Boyle’s Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours in Dialogue with the Recipe Arch

Jongmin Lee
2011–2012 Edelstein Fellow | Virginia Tech
Regulatory Engineering in the EPA: Chemical Monitoring, Catalytic Converters, and the Controlled Environment

Victoria Lee
2023 Cain Conference Fellow | Ohio University
Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections
2012–2013 Ullyot Scholar | Princeton University
Synthetic Fermentation and Applied Biology in Japan, 1910–1960

Juan-Andres Leon
2013–2014 Bodensee Collection Postdoctoral Fellow/Cain Fellow | Harvard University
Mathematical Models in Polymer Research, 1940s–1970s: An Industry-Driven Theoretical Science?

Gustave Lester
2021–2022 Haas Fellow, 2022–2023 Fellow in Residence/Presidential Junior Fellow | Harvard University
Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of U.S. Industrial Capitalism, 1780–1880

Bruce Lewenstein
2001–2002 Presidential Fellow/Garfield Fellow | Cornell University
Exploring the Role of Science Books in the Development of Science in the Post-WWII Era, Focusing on Chemistry

Lucía Lewowicz
2018–2019 Garfield Fellow | University of the Republic, Uruguay
(Re)constructing and Disseminating Scientific Knowledge: Liebig’s Laboratory in Fray Bentos, Uruguay, and the Curious Case of the Industrial Fertilizer

Max Liboiron
2012–2013 Allington Fellow | New York University
Transforming Pollution: Ocean Plastics and Body Burdens

Scott Lidgard
2012 Cain Conference Fellow | Field Museum of Natural History
E pluribus unum: Bringing Biological Parts and Wholes into Philosophical Perspective

Delanie Linden
2023–2024 Doan Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Colors: Chroma, Chemistry, and the Orient in 19th-Century French Painting

Claire Litt
2023–2024 Price-Doan Postdoctoral Fellow | Queen’s University, Canada
Real and Synthetic Stones as Materia Medica in Late Renaissance Medical Alchemy

Bernard Lightman
2015 Cain Conference Fellow | York University, Canada
Curators, Popularizers, and Showmen: Science in 19th-Century Anglo-American Exhibitions and Museums
2026 Cain Conference Fellow | York University, Canada
The Global History of Modern Science, 1400–1914

Miriam F. Lipton
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | Oregon State University
Bacteriophages and Antibiotics: The History of Cold War Politics of Antibiotic Resistance

Daniel Liu
2014–2015 Price Fellow | University of Wisconsin, Madison
Molecules in Biology before Molecular Biology, 1890–1950

Bree Lohman
2024–2025 Haas Fellow | University of Toronto
Of Fallout and Outfall: National Insecurity, Public Health, and the Partial Containment of Hazards in the Occupied Arctic

Slawomir Lotysz
2007–2008 Price Fellow | University of Zielona Góra
Kevlar, Before and Beyond: The Amazing Transnational Quest for the Bulletproof Vest

Sarah Lowengard
2021–2022 Mistry Fellow | The Cooper Union
My Red Bandanas: The Waning Days and Afterlife of Turkey Red

Alice Lovejoy
2022–2023 Cain Distinguished Fellow | University of Minnesota
Cinema’s Militant Chemistry: Film and its Raw Materials

Jennifer Lupu
2023–2024 Haas Fellow | Northwestern University
Consuming Care: Pharmaceuticals Use and Access in Washington, D.C., 1850–1920

Raechel Lutz
2015–2016 Allington Fellow | Rutgers University
Disaster, Debate, and Defense: New Jersey’s Role in the Rise of Environmentalism

Alexandra Macdonald
2024–2025 Doan Fellow | College of William and Mary
Blue Gold: Indigo in the British World, 1680–1880

Pamela E. Mack
2003–2004 Ullyot Scholar | Clemson University
A Biographical Study of Dr. Ruth Patrick, Pioneer Environmental Scientist

Roy MacLeod
2008 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Sydney
The Dilemma of Dual Use
2007–2008 Edelstein Fellow | University of Sydney
Chemical Explosives Industry during and after the Great War and Institutional Questions Arising in the Development of ‘Dual Use’ Technologies
1995–1996 Cain Fellow | University of Sydney
A History of Chemical Engineering in Allied and German Ammunitions Factories during World War I

Anna Maerker
2017–2018 Doan Fellow | Kings College London
The Materiality of Models: Paper in Three Dimensions

Amanda Mahoney
2017–2018 Public History Fellow/2017 Cain Conference Fellow
My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies

Jan Marontate
2004–2005 Edelstein Fellow | Acadia University, Canada
Artists, Artists’ ‘Colormen,’ and the Chemical Industry: Networks of Technical Collaboration and Innovations in 20th-Century Artists’ Paints

Anaël Marrec
2020–2021 Haas Fellow | University of Nantes
Energy from Waste: France, USA, 1970s–1980s

Matteo Martelli
2009–2010 Edelstein Fellow | Universities of Bologna and Pisa
Greek Alchemical Works of Pseudo-Democritus: The Book On the Making of Precious Stones

Jessica Martucci
2019–2020 Research Fellow

Brendan Matz
2011–2012 Haas Fellow | Yale University
The Science of Nutrition in Germany and the United States, 1870–1920

John Walker Mauer
2003–2004 Ullyot Scholar | Clemson University
A Biographical Study of Dr. Ruth Patrick, Pioneer Environmental Scientist

Margaret Maurer
2022–2023 Allington Fellow | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Everyday Alchemy

Seymour H. Mauskopf
1988–1989 Price Fellow, 1999–2000 Edelstein Fellow | Duke University
The Experimental Study of Munitions: Scientific and Military Traditions

Leah McEwen
2013–2014 Garfield Fellow | Cornell UniversityResearching the Future through the History of Chemical Information

Odinn Melsted
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | Maastricht University
Chemical Perspectives: The Oil Industry, Geochemical Exploration Techniques, and Alternative Fuels Research in the 1970s

Joris Mercelis
2009–2010 Doan Fellow | Ghent University
Leo H. Baekeland (1863–1944): A Biography of an Entrepreneur

Donna A. Messner
University of Pennsylvania
The Origins of Medical Foods and Their Regulation

Daniel Jon Mitchell
2021–2022 Research Fellow

Cyrus Mody
2004–2005 Cain Fellow | Cornell University
The History of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and the Atomic Force Microscope, and the Ways These Instruments Were Used to Weave Together Disparate Disciplines
2005 Cain Conference Fellow | Cornell University
Nano Before There Was Nano: Historical Perspectives on the Constituent Communities of Nanotechnology

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
2016–2017 Haas Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
Nothing but Nets: History of Insecticide-Treated Nets, 1980s–Present

Jordi Mora Casanova
2010–2011 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Alchemical Reminiscences of Modern Chemists in the 19th Century

Elisabeth Moreau
2016–2017 Haas Fellow | Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Composition of Life and Health: Elements, Particles, and Atoms in Late Renaissance Physiology

Bruce Moran
2014–2015 Cain Fellow | University of Nevada, Reno
Leonhard Thurneisser and the Alchemy of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Juan Felipe Moreno
2017–2018 Cain Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
Surviving Coca Crop Fumigations in Southwestern Colombia

Gabriel Moshenska
2016–2017 Doan Fellow

Simone M. Müller
2017–2018 Allington Fellow | Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, University of Munich
Chemicals on Tour: Explorations into a Material History of the Global Waste Economy

Lucas Müller
2017–2018 Price Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Toxic Relationships: Toxicity, Cancer, and Science in the Postcolonial World

Peter J. T. Morris
1991–1992 Edelstein Fellow | Open University, United Kingdom
A Comparative Study of Polymer Innovations in Several Major Corporations and the Technological History of IG Farbenindustrie

Anna Mlasowsky
Artist in Residence
Enabling Transparency

Kate Luce Mulry
2021–2022 Ullyot Scholar | California State University, Bakersfield
‘It Nourisheth the Child in the Womb:’ Chocolate, Reproduction, and Colonization in 17th-Century Jamaica

David Munns
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Not a Decree of Fate: A New History of Eugenics

Jacob Myers
2024–2025 Allington Dissertation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Noxious Life: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean

Samantha Nadel
2024–2025 Cain Dissertation Fellow | Boston University
Indigenous Contributions to Colorant Chemistry: The Influence of Mexican Cochineal Production Methods on European Scientists

Fred Nadis
2021–2022 Haas Fellow | Independent Scholar
Children, Science Education, and Play, from Tom Swift to Girl Coders

Christine Nawa
2010–2011/2011–2012 Price Fellow | Universität Regensburg
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s Research Style and His Teaching

Pap Ndiaye
1994–1995 Edelstein Fellow | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
American Engineers and the Mutations of the American Political Economy, 1920–1960

Elizabeth Neswald
2019–2020 Doan Fellow | Brock University
Material Culture and Practices of Diabetes Management in the 20th Century

William Newman
2015–2016 Cain Fellow | Indiana University, Bloomington
The Alchemy of Isaac Newton: A New Appraisal

Amanda Nichols
2023–2024 Otlet Fellow | Oklahoma Christian University
The Role of Women Chemists in the Development of Molecular Structure Theory

Keith A. Nier
2002–2003 Beckman Center Fellow/Price Fellow | The Cooper Union
Diverging Ions and Converging Fields

Melanie Nilsson
2024–2025 Doan Senior Fellow | McDaniel College
Broadening the Representation of Chemists Highlighted by National Historic Chemical Landmarks

Tara Nummedal
2001–2002 Edelstein Fellow | Stanford University
The Lives and Labor of Men and Women Who Practiced Alchemy in Early Modern Central Europe

Lynn Nyhart
2012 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Wisconsin–Madison
E pluribus unum: Bringing Biological Parts and Wholes into Philosophical Perspective

Ingrid Ockert
2018–2020 Haas Fellow | Princeton University
The Scientific Storytellers: How Educators, Scientists, and Actors Televised Science

Csaba Olasz
2025–2026 Allington Dissertation Fellow | University of California, San Diego
The Humanist Impulse: A Movement Against Scientific Reductionism, 1950–1980

Sean O’Neil
2023–2024 Herdegen Fellow | Hong Kong Baptist University
The Art of Signs: Symbolic Notation and Visual Thinking in Early Modern Europe

Douglas O’Reagan
2014–2015 Seidel Fellow | University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Espionage, Tech Transfer, and Diplomacy in the 20th Century

Declan O’Reilly
2003–2004 Price Fellow | University of London, United Kingdom
The Relationship Between Standard Oil of New Jersey and IG Farben of Germany, 1925–1945

Gwen Ottinger
2005–2006 Haas Fellow | University of California, Berkeley
The Linkages Made by Petrochemical Companies between Local Community Relations and Public Relations

Cesare Pastorino
2010–2011 Neville Fellow | Indiana University
Minerall Tryalls: Metal Assaying and Experiment in Early Modern England
2006–2007 Cain Fellow | Indiana University
The Mythological Symbolism of Proteus in the Renaissance and Baroque Alchemical Texts

Rohini Patel
2022–2023 Haas Fellow | University of Toronto
Chemical Modernities: Politics of Production, Waste, and Empire in Elmira, Ontario, 1940–2000

Gary Patterson
2004–2005 Price Fellow | Carnegie Mellon University
Paradigms in Polymer Science

Emily Pawley
2007–2008 Haas Fellow/Neville Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The Balance Sheet of Nature: Valuing the New York Farm, 1825–1860

Alexander Pechenkin
2010–2011 Allington Fellow | Lomonosov Moscow State University
The Social History of Quantum Chemistry in the USSR (1950–1991)

Silvia Pérez Criado
University of Valencia, Spain
DDT During Franco’s Regime in Spain (1940–1975): Chemical Industry, Agricultural Engineering, Public Health, and Occupational Hazards

Axel Petit
2015–2016 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Nantes
Walter J. Hamer (1907–2004): Electrochemistry at the National Bureau of Standards

Gabriella Petrick
2004–2005 Edelstein Fellow | University of Delaware
The Role of Technology and Science in the Industrial Development of Food in 20th-Century America

Ingemar Pettersson
2016–2017 Doan Fellow | Uppsala University
Masters of Flavor: Sensory Analysis and High Industrial Food

Edoardo Pierini
2022–2023 Allington Fellow | University of Geneva
Chemical Medicines and Dangerous Drugs: Sources and Impact of Angelo Sala’s Opiologia

Megan Piorko
2017–2018 Allington Fellow | Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Library as Laboratory: 17th-Century Alchemical Texts
2017–2018 Allington Fellow | Georgia State University
Dr. Arthur Dee and the Reception and Vernacularization of Alchemy in the Mid-17th Century

Jim Wynter Porter
2023–2024 Haas Fellow | Independent Scholar
‘Race,’ ‘Ability,’ and Chemistry Curriculum Development in the Mid-20th Century United States

Rosalind Powell
2022–2023 Haas Fellow | University of Bristol
Bodies of Knowledge: Discourses of Self-Experimentation in the Long 18th Century

John Powers
2024–2025 Cain Senior Fellow | Virginia Commonwealth University
Thermometers and the Senses in 18th-Century Chemistry

Catherine Price
2012–2013 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Freelance Journalist
Fortified: The Secret Science of Food

Lawrence Principe
2001–2002 Othmer Scholar | Johns Hopkins University
Alchemical Interpretations of the Works in the Fisher and Eddleman Collections at CHF

Jarmo Pulkkinen
2013–2014 Allington Fellow | University of Oulu
A. I. Virtanen: A Finnish ‘System-Builder’ behind AIV Butter Salt and AIV Method

Adam Quinn
2025–2026 Haas Postdoctoral Fellow
The Nature of Computing: The Making of Computers and the Remaking of American Capitalism

Viviane Quirke
2013–2014 Doan Fellow | Oxford University
Chemistry and the History of Cancer Chemotherapy in the United States, 1940s–1990s

Evan Ragland
2009–2010/2010–2011 Edelstein Fellow | Indiana University
Chymistry and Medicine in Low Countries in the 17th Century: Laboratories and Experiments, Acids, and Alkalis

Ramya Rajagopalan
2017 Cain Conference Fellow
My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies

Jennifer Rampling
2008–2009 Neville Fellow | University of Cambridge
The Alchemical Reception of George Ripley (ca. 1415–1490)

LIsa Ruth Rand
2019–2021 Haas Fellow | Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Space Junk: A History of Waste in Orbit

Erik Rau
2002–2003 Garfield Fellow | Drexel University
Case Studies of Operational Research since 1953

Sara Ray
2019–2020 Science HIstory Institute Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Monsters in the Cabinet: Anatomical Collecting and Abnormal Bodies, 1697–1849

Jose Emmanuel Raymundo
2011–2012 Edelstein Fellow | Tulane University
National Skin: Contact, Conflict, and the Culion Leper Colony in the U.S.-Occupied Philippines, 1902–1941

W. Boyd Rayward
1999–2000 Garfield Fellow | University of New South Wales
Oral Histories with Prominent Information Scientists

Agnieszka Rec
2016–2017 Herdegen Fwllow | Yale University
Blood Is Thicker Than Aqua Regia: Alchemical Networks in Sixteenth-Century Central and Eastern Europe

Carten Reinhardt
1998–1999 Edelstein Fellow | University of Regensburg
History of Instrumentation in Post-1945 Chemistry

Maria Rentetzi
2021 Cain Conference Fellow | Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology, and International Affairs After the Second World War

Tristan Edward Revells
2019–2020 Mistry Fellow | Columbia University
From Bad Booze to Biofuel: Alcohol, Global Standards, and China’s First Alternative Energy Industry (1892–1946)

Raquel Reyes
2022–2023 Doan Fellow | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Chemical Magic Bullets: American Food Science in the Tropics, 1902–1945

Sarah Reynolds
2018–2019 Science History Institute Fellow | Indiana University
Making Knowledge in the Laboratory: Intersections of Science, Philosophy, and Education in the Origins of American Laboratory Instruction

Jean-Olivier Richard
2016–2017 Cain Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
Mixture Makers: The Role of Mankind in Père Castel’s Matter Theory

Linda Richards
2013–2014, 2010–2011 Doan Fellow | Oregon State University
Unraveling Radiation History
Disrupting Hozho: A Comparative History of Nuclear Science and Radiation Safety in University Research and Uranium Mining

Marlise Rijks
2016–2017 Doan Fellow | Ghent University
By Human Hands: Counterfeiting Nature in Early Modern Europe

Donna Rilling
2004 Cain Conference Fellow | SUNY Stony Brook
City, Industry, and Environment in Transatlantic Perspective
2003–2004 Cain Felow | SUNY Stony Brook
Early Industrial Pollution in the Greater Delaware Valley

Justin Rivest
2015–2016 Price Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
From Orviétan to Ipecacuanha: Patent Pharmaceuticals, Iatrochymistry, and the Absolutist State in France

Jody A. Roberts
2006–2007 Cain Fellow | Chemical Heritage Foundation
Redesigning the Chemical Sciences: Promises, Problems, and Potential for Scientific Movements
2007 Cain Conference Fellow | Chemical Heritage Foundation
New Chemical Bodies
2005–2006 Price Fellow | Virginia Polytechnic and State University
The Controversy over the Regulation of the Chemical Pesticide Atrazine

Lissa L. Roberts
2022 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Twente, Netherlands
Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together
2014–2015 Presidential Fellow/2014 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Twente
Chemical Reactions: Chemistry and Global History

Jacqueline Robinson
2025–2026 Ullyot Scholar | Independent Scholar
Countless Dignities: William A. Lester, Jr., Chemist and Educational Pioneer

Seth Rockman
2022 Cain Conference Fellow | Brown University
Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together

Lisa Rosner
2009–2010 Garfield Fellow | Richard Stockton College
Chemical Dissertations in the Digital World: 18th-Century Chemical Knowledge and the History Browser
2005–2006 Neville Fellow | Richard Stockton College
The Audience for Popular Chemistry Works and Lectures from the 1790s through the 1860s
2003–2004 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Richard Stockton College
Lesson Plans on Chemical Science and the Chemical Industries, Based on Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry (1824)

Michael Rossi
2016–2017 Ullyot Scholar | University of Chicago
Between Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics: Color Chemistry, Measurement and Manufacture, 1830 to 1930
2015–2016 Allington Fellow | University of Chicago
The Rules of Perception: American Color Science, 1831–1931

Alejandra Ruiz-León
2024–2025 Haas Fellow | Georgia Institute of Technology
Caged Knowledge: The History of TECNO-ITINTEC, a Pioneering Interactive Science Museum of Latin America

Pedro Ruiz-Castell
2011–2012 Allington Fellow | University of Valencia
New Identities from the Invisible: The Early Days of Electron Microscopy

Sharon Ruston
2016–2017 Allington Fellow | Lancaster University
The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy

Claire Sabel
2023–2024 Haas Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistories, and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe, c. 1600–1750

Annalisa Salonius
2009–2010 Cain Fellow | Cornell University
Transformation in the Relationship Between the Organization of Research and Postgraduate Training in the Biomedical Sciences since 1960: A Comparative Ethnographic and Historical Case Study (Canada-U.S.)

Paul Sampson
2020–2021 Haas Fellow | University of Scranton
Ventilating the Empire: Environmental Machines in the British Atlantic World, 1700–1850
2017–2018 Ullyot Scholar | Rutgers University
Portable Chemistry for a Profitable People: Improvement, Public Science, and Global Trade in 18th-Century Britain

Candida F. Sánchez Burmester
2024–2025 Ullyot Scholar | Maastricht University, Netherlands
The Dawn of Nanotoxicology: The Toxic Effects of Nanoparticles in Humans and the Formation of a New Field
Ullyot Scholar

Kathleen Sands
2004–2005 Neville Fellow | DeVry University
The Intersections of Science and Religion

Antonella Sannino
2021–2022 Science History Institute Fellow | University of Naples, “L’Orientale”
Forms of Artificial Life and Models of Transformation from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period

Mat Savelli
2012–2013 Haas Fellow | McMaster University
A Comparative History of Psychopharmaceutical Print Advertising

David Schleifer
2008–2009 Haas Fellow | New York University
Getting Better for You: Trans Fats, Risk, and Innovation

Ulf Schmidt
2011–2012 Doan Fellow | University of Kent
Secret Science: Human Experimentation in Biological and Chemical Warfare Research during the Cold War

Benjamin Schmidt
2021–2022 Doan Fellow | University of Washington
Alchemy at Meissen: On the Conversion of Matter, the Production of China, and Europe’s Transmutation of the World

Rebecca P. Schwartz
2003–2004 Edelstein Fellow | Princeton University
Telling the Story of the Manhattan Project

Bruce Seely
2008–2009 Cain Fellow/2009 Cain Conference Fellow | Michigan Technological University
Technology Transfer and Diffusion in Comparative Perspective

Jeffrey Seeman
2000–2001 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Independent Scholar
A Biography of Arnold O. Beckman

Elena Serrano
2011–2012 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Autonomous University of Barcelona
Women and Chemistry in Late-18th-Century Spain: The Chemico-Charitable Activities of the Junta de Damas

Thibaut Serviant-Fine
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Drugs and Tools: Antimetabolites in the Early History of Cancer Chemotherapy (1940–1960)

Nicholas Shapiro
2017–2018 Science History Institute Research Fellow
Matter, Materials and Culture Project
2013–2014 Haas Fellow | Oxford University
Chemical Freshness, Chemical Fetish: The Rise of the Synthetic ‘New Smell’ in Mid-20th-Century America

Sherri Sheu
2022–2024 Haas Curatorial Fellow | University of Colorado Boulder
Focus: Museum Interpretation Projects

Bono Shih
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | Viriginia Tech
Engineering at the Crossroads of Chemistry and Industry: Developing Ideas of Chemical Engineering, 1880–1980

Matthew Shindell
2009–2010 Haas Fellow | University of California, San Diego
The New Prophet: Harold C. Urey, Scientist, Atheist, and Defender of Religion

David Sicilia
1999–2000 Cain Fellow | University of Maryland
The Political History of the U.S. Chemical Industry since World War II
1999 Cain Conference Fellow
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health

Sean Silver
2023–2024 Doan Senior Fellow | Rutgers University
The Motley Emblem: Tristram Shandy and the Empire of Color

Julian Silverman
2023–2024 Haas Fellow | Fashion Institute of Technology
The Material History of Soap: Crafting a Scientific Demonstration for Public Audiences

Christian W. Simon
2000–2001 Cain Fellow | University of Basel
History of Industrial Insecticide Research and Development ca. 1900–1960
2001 Cain Conference Fllow | University of Basel
The Chemical Industry and the Environment

Jonathan Simon
1996–1997 Edelstein Fellow | University of Pittsburgh
The Alchemy of Identity: Chemistry and Pharmacy, 1787–1803

Shoshana Simons
2022–2023 Cain Fellow | University of California Berkeley
The Digitization of Chemistry and Computing

David Singerman
2012–2013 Haas Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Empire of Purity: Making the Modern Sugar Market, 1875–1925

Robert Slate
2013–2014 Doan Fellow | George Mason University
Regulating Nanomaterials: Drawing Lessons from TSCA and REACH

Leo B. Slater
2001–2002 Haas Fellow | Chemical Heritage Foundation
Quinine and the Chemical Control of Malaria, Drawing Historical Connections between Plants, Animals, and People
1996–1997 Ullyot Scholar | Princeton University
Locating the Accomplishments of Chemical Science and Industry within American History
1995–1996 Edelstein Fellow | Princeton University
Quinine, Its Use and Synthesis

Amy Slaton
2023 Cain Conference Fellow | Drexel University
Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections

Hugh Slotten
2026 Cain Conference Fellow | University of Otago, New Zealand
The Global History of Modern Science, 1400–1914

Alexis Smets
2009–2010 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Radboud University Nijmegen
Chemistry, Iconography: Theory of Matter, Images, and the Concept of Chemical Images (1560s–1720s)

John Kenly Smith, Jr.
1999–2000 Edelstein Fellow | Lehigh University
The Evolution of Chemical Technology in the 20th Century

Pamela H. Smith
1997–1998 Edelstein Fellow | Pomona College
Art, Commerce, and Science: The Representation of Material Things in Early Modern Europe

Sally Smith-Hughes
1997–1998 Othmer Scholar | University of California, Berkeley
The History of Biotechnology and the Cohen-Boyer Patents

Geert Somsen
1997–1998 Othmer Scholar | Maastricht University
The Relationship between Colloid Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry in Both Germany and America

Ellan Spero
2012–2013 Allington Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Production and Place, Textile Science and Education in a Technological Landscape

Prerna Srigyan
2024–2025 Herdegen Fellow | University of California, Irvine
Lecture to Lab: Experimental Science Education in Cold War America

Emily Stanback
2013–2014 Haas Fellow | CUNY Graduate Center
Romantic Experimentation: Radical Science and the Politics of Disability

Kathryn Steen
2000–2001 Edelstein Fellow | Drexel University
Wartime Catalyst and Postwar Reaction: The Making of the U.S. Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry, 1910–1930
1992–1993 Edelstein Fellow | University of Delaware
Development of the Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry in the United States, 1910–1933

John Stewart
2010–2011 Allington Fellow | University of Oklahoma
Beyond Chemistry: Affinity as a Unifying Principle in Science at the Turn of the 19th Century

Jay I. Stone
2018–2019 Cain Fellow | Princeton University
Sweet Deception: A History of the Health Politics of Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners in the United States

Alexandra Straub
2019–2020 Cain Fellow | Temple University
Making Pure Water: A History of Water Softening from Potash to Tide

Ignacio Suay-Matallana
2014–2015 Cain Fellow | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Chemicals Across Borders: Spanish Experts and Custom Laboratories in a Global Fight Against Fraud

Kara Swanson
2023–2024 Seidel Senior Fellow | Northeastern University
Inventing Citizens: Race, Gender, and the United States Patent System

Shuko Tamao
2022–2024 Cain Curatorial Fellow | University at Buffalo
Focus: Oral History Projects

Ying Jia Tan
2021–2022 Cain Fellow | Wesleyan University
Plastic and the Economic Transformation of Chinese East Asia

Joel Harold Tannenbaum
2020–2021 Garfield Fellow | Community College of Philadelphia
Science, Marketing and Myth: Taste and Color Perception Research in the 1970s

Pierre Teissier
2008–2009 Cain Fellow | Oxford University
Between Chemistry and Industry, Solid-State Materials in the United States (1945–2000)

Ronald Tempest
1997–1998 Ullyot Scholar | Germantown Academy
Fuel Cells—Past, Present, Future

Peter Thompson
2021–2022 Haas Fellow | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Grasping for the Mask: German Visions of Chemical Modernity, 1915–1938

Dominique Tobbell
2007–2008 Haas Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945–1980

Koyna Tomar
2025–2026 Doan Dissertation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Dairy Democracy: Science, Cooperatives, and Capital in the Agrarian History of Modern India, 1880–1991

Oscar Moises Torres Montúfar
2016–2017 Doan Fellow | Colegio de Mexico
Miners, Oilmen, and Chemists: Globalization and Technology in the Mexican Sulfur Industry (1920–1972)

Barbara Traister
2009–2010 Allington Fellow | Lehigh University
Editing Ashmole MS 1494/1491: An Alphabetical Alchemical Manuscript (c. 1607–1611) by Simon Forman

Anthony Travis
2018–2019 Science History Institute Fellow | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Biography of the Chemist and Darwinian Raphael Meldola

Elly Truitt
2014–2015 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Bryn Mawr College
A Medieval Handbook of Art and Magic

Feng-En Tu
2014–2015 Doan Fellow | Harvard University
Manufacturing Reality: The Production of Modern Smells in Japan and Beyond, 1880–1945

Jennifer Tucker
2019–2020 Seidel Fellow | Wesleyan University
Dangerous Exposures: Work and Waste in the Victorian Chemical Trade

Roger Turner
2019–2020 Research Fellow

Julianne Tuttle
2002–2003 Ullyot Scholar | Independent Scholar
The Letters of Humphry Davy: Annotation of the Fullmer Transcription

Aristotle Tympas
2008–2009 Doan Fellow | University of Athens
On Nomography’s ‘Magic and Fun:’ A Perspective from the History of Chemical Engineering Calculations

Tianna Uchacz
2016–2017 Making and Knowing Scholar

Reut Ullman
2024–2025 Cain Postdoctoral Fellow
A Window to the World: Artisanal Knowledge Regime in the Russian Empire (1500–1750)

Peter Vale
2023–2024 Haas Fellow | University of California, Berkeley
Child of Copper: Mining, Capitalism, and State-Making in Central Africa

Brigitte Van Tiggelen
2010–2011 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow | Université Catholique de Louvain
The Chemists’ Blues: The History of Prussian Blue and Modern Chemistry
2008–2009 Allington Fellow | Université Catholique de Louvain
Mme. Thiroux d’Arconville and the ‘Essai pour server a l’histoire de la putrefaction:’ Anonymity, Autonomy, and Authorship in Women’s Contributions to Chemistry in the 18th Century
2006–2007 Neville Fellow | Université Catholique de Louvain
A Mixt: Mechanical and Chymical Explanations at the Service of Physicians—The Case of J. Mongin

Didi van Trijp
2021–2022 Allington Fellow | Leiden University
Natural History Illuminated: Pigments, Paints, and the Practice of Heightening (1680–1820)

Jessica Varner
2021–2022 Haas Fellow | University of Southern California
Chemical Desires

Gwendolyn Verhoff
2006–2007 Haas Fellow | Washington University in St. Louis
The Intractable Atom: The Challenge of Radiation and Radioactive Waste in American Life, 1945 to Present

Hanna Vikstrom
2015–2016 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
From Light Bulbs to LEDs: Illuminating the Role of Rare Metals

Sarah Vogel
2008–2009 Haas Fellow | Columbia University
The Politics of Plastics: The Economic, Political, and Scientific History of Bisphenol A

Emmet von Stackelberg
2023–2024 Mistry Fellow | Harvard University
Seeing Through Silver: How Chemists and Capital Made Images Move

Adelheid Voskuhl
2017–2018 Mistry Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
2012–2013 Doan Fellow | Harvard University
Engineering as Institution: Technical, Scientific, and Intellectual Elites in Germany and the United States, 1870 to 1935

Mark Waddell
2016–2017 Allington Fellow | Michigan State University
The Devil’s Cure: Magical Medicine and the Problem of Plausibility in the 17th Century
2004–2005 Neville Fellow | Johns Hopkins University
17th-Century Works on Natural and Artificial Magic

Daniel Joseph Walls
2021–2022 Haas Fellow | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Confined Success of Soil Lead Cleanup Initiatives

Changming Wang
2011–2012 Allington Fellow | Guangxi University of Nationalities
The Lives and Studies of Outstanding Chinese Chemistry Students in the United States during the Republic of China (1911–1949): A Comprehensive Investigation on Chemical Dissemination and Cultural Exchange

Xiaona Wang
University of Warwick
Hidden Causes, Manifest Effects: Occult Traditions in the Forging of Newton’s Natural Philosophy

Nadia Wadzinski
2013–2014 Edelstein Fellow | Princeton University
‘Current’ Investigations: Galvanism, the Birth of Electrochemistry, and the World of Scientific News, 1790–1820

Eleanor Webb
2024–2025 Cain Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Between Studium and Accademia: Science, Medicine, and Education in Early Modern Italy

Andreas Weber
2015–2016 Haas Fellow | University of Twente
Materials at Work: Governing Nature and Society in the Dutch Empire, 1780–1830

Stephen Weininger
2014–2015 Haas Fellow | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Paul D. Bartlett and the Intersection of Industry, War and ‘Pure’ Science

Michael Weisberg
2006–2007 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
The Nature of the Chemical Bond

Simon Werrett
2015–2016 Allington Fellow | University College London
Recycling in Early Modern Science: Material Culture, Experimental Philosophy, and Sustainability

Samantha Wesner
2024–2025 NEH Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Citizens Electric: Electricity and Democracy in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

Peter Westin
2013–2014 Doan Fellow | Georgia Institute of Technology
Synthetics of Speed: The Trajectory of Changes in Tire Compound Formulation across Motorsports and Automobiles in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

Cheyeun Whang
2024–2025 Mistry Fellow | Harvard University
Finishing Touch: Cleaning the Modern American Body, 1880–1970

Johnnie-Marie Whitfield
1999–2000 Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellow | Millsaps College
Polymers

Frédéric Wieber with Alexandre Hocquet
2018–2019 Otlet Fellow | University of Lorraine
Software Packages in Computational Chemistry

Courtney Tanner Wilder
2019–2020 Allington Fellow | University of Michigan
Novel Impressions in Printed Textiles, 1815–1851

Robert V. Williams
1997–1998 Garfield Fellow | University of South Carolina
Conduct Oral Histories with Several Pioneers in the Development of Scientific Information with Emphasis on the Chemical Science

Bess Williamson
2010–2011 ACLS/Mellon Fellow | University of Delaware
The Right to Design: Disability and Access in the United States, 1945–2000

Audra Wolfe
2000–2001 Othmer Scholar | University of Pennsylvania
Germs in Space: Joshua Lederberg, Exobiology, and the Public Imagination, 1958–1964

Michael Worboys
2014–2015 Haas Fellow | University of Manchester
NSAIDs, Inflammation, and Translational Medicine

Qinyan Wu
2022–2023 Presidential Junior Fellow | University of Pennsylvania
Controlling Systems and Controlling Legacies: Barbara McClintock’s 1961 Conversation with Two Bacterial Geneticists

Doogab Yi
2011–2012, 2007–2008 Haas Fellow | Princeton University
The Making of the Recombinant University: The Emergence of Biotechnology at Stanford University, 1959–1980

Jeris Strueland Yruma
2006–2007 Ullyot Scholar | Princeton University
How Experiments Are Remembered: The Discovery Narratives of Nuclear Fission

Nasser Zakariya
2010–2011 Haas Fellow | Harvard University
The Matter of Life: The Role of Chemistry in the Scientific Epic

Maria del Pilar Zazueta Aviles
2007–2008 Quinn Fellow | Columbia University
Vital Liquids: Milk, Soft Drinks, and the Politics of Dietary Changes in Mexico (1940–1986)

Frank Zelko
2016–2017 Cain Fellow | University of Vermont
Precious Bodily Fluids: What the History of Fluoride Tells Us about Science, Public Health, and the Politics of Knowledge