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former SHC students

Prior to 2009, graduate students admitted to SHC all entered through the History Department. Since then, the SHC program has expanded to welcome students through all the humanities and social science departments.

Elise Lipkowitz (Ph.D., History, 2009).  Field: Modern French and British history of science.  Dissertation: “The Sciences Are Never at War?: Atlantic Science in the Eighteenth Century.”  Currently postdoctoral fellow, Michigan University Society of Fellows.

Guy Ortolano (Ph.D. History, June 2005).  Field: Modern British cultural history, history of science.  Book based on dissertation: The Two-Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge, 2009).  Currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University.

Alison Pion (Ph.D. History, 2004).  Field: Modern British social and medical history.  Dissertation: “Progressive Thought and the Rhetoric of Reproduction in Late Victorian Britain.”

Christopher Tassava (Ph.D. History, 2003).  Field: twentieth-century American technology.  Dissertation: “Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940-1945.”  Currently Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Carleton College, Minnesota.

Karl Appuhn (Ph.D., History, 1999).  Field: Early Modern Italian history and environmental science.  Dissertation title: “Environmental Politics and State Power in Early Modern Venice, 1300-1650.”  Article based on dissertation: “Inventing Nature: Forests, Forestry and State Power in Renaissance Venice.” The Journal of Modern History 72 (2000): 861-89. (Winner of the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize).  Currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University.  Book based on dissertation: A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

Dario Gaggio (Ph.D. History, 1999).  Field: Modern European history of technology and society.  Book based on dissertation: In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (Princeton, 2007).  Currently Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Katherine Anderson (Ph.D., History, 1995).  Field: Modern British history of science. Book based on dissertation: Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology (University of Chicago Press, 2005).  Currently Associate Professor of History, York University, Ontario, Canada.

Rob Kieley (Ph.D. History, 1995).  Field: Early modern European history of science.  Dissertation title: “The Architect in the Alembic: Chemistry, Neoplatonism, and Religion in Seventeenth Century English Generation Theory.”  Currently Assistant Professor of History, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.