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POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
2007-09
 Anthony Q. Hazard, Jr. (Ph.D. Temple) a-hazard@northwestern.edu. Tony Hazard is a historian who focuses on recent U.S. history, “race,” the history of anthropology (particularly the Boasians), and contemporary globalization. Currently he is preparing a manuscript based his dissertation “Postwar Anti-racism: The United States, Unesco and ‘Race,’ 1945-68.” The project explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II. By focusing on the relationship between the US government and Unesco, the project explores the interplay of international politics and the scientific discourse of “race” within the context of transnational freedom movement in the postwar period. It argues that the United States government’s promotion of anti-racism through Unesco reinscribed biological theories of “racial” difference within the conceptualization of culture and the broader ideology of modernization, and concludes that racialized political identities, particularly in the United States, overshadowed the repudiation of “race” as a scientific concept.
2006-08
 Laura Stark (Ph.D. Princeton) laura-stark@northwestern.edu. Stark studies the role of the human sciences in conceptions of morality. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation research, which melds historical and ethnographic methods to explore the social process of creating ethics standards. The project examines how rule-makers have crafted codes for the treatment of human subjects in the United States since the 1950s. It also draws on observations of meetings of Institutional Review Boards to examine how members of these federally-mandated boards make decisions about the proper treatment of human subjects today. This project aims to understand why various decision-makers (e.g., researchers, lawyers, citizen-representatives) have supported or rejected scientific evidence as an anchor for moral commitments.
2005-07
Sokhieng Au: postdoc 2005-07, visiting assistant professor 2007-08, History Department, Northwestern.
s-au@northwestern.edu
Sokhieng Au (Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley) wrote a dissertation entitled "Medicine and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia" which dealt
with the interface between French medicine and indigenous society
in colonial Cambodia. Her general concern is to understand the ways
medical practices and epistemologies relate with social practices
and epistemologies. She is also interested in effacing the "colonial" in colonial medicine, by examining the many cosmopolitan entanglements
of medicine practiced in the colony. Further, she seeks to understand
the layers of interpretation that attend medical theory and practice
in different political, class, and ethnic contexts. She examines
these relationships by comparative studies of medicine and culture
both within indigenous Southeast Asian societies, and between indigenous
societies and colonial powers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2004-06
Patrick Singy (Ph.D. Chicago): postdoctoral fellow, Columbia Society of Fellows.
2004-05
Pauline Kusiak (Ph.D., Cornell): government policy analyst
on Africa, Washington DC.
2002-04
John Tresch (Ph.D., Cambridge): assistant professor, History and Sociology
of Science Dept., U. Penn.
2002-04
Shobita Parthasarathy (Ph.D., Cornell): asst. prof., Ford
School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Pub: Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care. (MIT Press, 2007).
2000-02
Sander Gliboff (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins): asst. prof., History
and Philosophy of Science Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington.
1999-00
David Hoyt (Ph.D., UCLA): visiting lecturer, Northwestern.
1998-99
Florence Hsia (Ph.D., Chicago): asst. prof., History of Science
Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1997-98
Francesca Bordogna (Ph.D., Chicago): asst. prof., History
Dept., Northwestern.
1996-97
Jeffrey Sklansky (Ph.D., Columbia): assoc. prof., History
Dept., Oregon State University. Pub: The Soul's Economy: Market
Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 (U. North
Carolina, 2002).
1995-96
Jessica Riskin (Ph.D., Berkeley): assoc. prof., History Dept.,
Stanford University. Pub: Science in the Age of Sensibility :
The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (Chicago,
2002).
1994-95
Ayval Ramati (Ph.D., UCLA): asst. prof., History Dept., Hebrew
University, Jerusalem.
1993-94
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz): assist. prof.,
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Pub: The Worlds of
Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard,
2005).
1992-93
Mi Gyung Kim (Ph.D., UCLA): assoc. prof., History Dept.,
North Carolina State, Charlotte. Pub: Affinity, That Elusive
Dream : A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution (MIT, 2003).
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