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Post-Doctoral Fellows

2009-2011

Daniel Margocsy (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard) d-margocsy@northwestern.edu. Daniel Margocsy studies how science became commodified in the marketplaces of early modern Europe. His research investigates how financial motives influenced the rhetorics, aesthetics and knowledge claims of scientific images, texts, and three-dimensional objects produced by Dutch anatomists and naturalists. He also maintains a strong interest in the representation of the exotic in the Renaissance arts and sciences.  Daniel is teaching in the History Department where he is offering the survey of early modern science and a course on science in the marketplace.

2008-2010

Lindsay Smith (Ph.D., Anthropology, Harvard) lindsay-smith@northwestern.edu. Lindsay Smith is a medical anthropologist. She is currently working on DNA forensic science and "social repair," with particular attention to the way DNA has been used in Argentina to reunite families torn apart during the dirty war. She is teaching courses in the Anthropology Department on international human rights and on genetics and identity.

2007-2009

Anthony Q. Hazard, Jr. (Ph.D., History, Temple) a-hazard@northwestern.edu. Tony Hazard is serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern in 2009-10. He 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. Tony has been teaching in the History Department where he offers courses on the intersection of the American civil rights movement and de-colonization struggles, and on racial thought in the era of World War II.

2006-08

Laura Stark (Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton) was a Stetten postdoctoral fellow at the NEH in 2008-09, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University.

2005-07

Sokhieng Au (Ph.D., History, Berkeley) also served as a visiting assistant professor 2007-08 in the History Department, Northwestern, and is currently a Sommers Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her book, written during her postdoctral fellowship, Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in Colonial Cambodia, has been accepted for publication by the University of Chicago Presss.

2004-06

Patrick Singy (Ph.D., History, Chicago) is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia Society of Fellows.

2004-05

Pauline Kusiak (Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell) is currently a government policy analyst on Africa in Washington DC.

2002-04

John Tresch (Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) is current an Assistant Professor of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His book manuscript, written during his postdoctoral fellowship, The Romantic Machine: Science and Utopian Technology in France from 1820 to 1851, has been accepted for publication with University of Chicago Press.

2002-04

Shobita Parthasarathy (Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Her book publication, based on her research as a postdoctoral fellow, is Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (MIT Press, 2007).

2000-02

Sander Gliboff (Ph.D., History of Science, Johns Hopkins) is currently an Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington. His book publication, based on his research as a postdoctoral fellow, is H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation (MIT Press, 2008).

1999-00

David Hoyt (Ph.D., History, UCLA) is an independent scholar in the Chicago area.

1998-99

1997-98

Francesca Bordogna (Ph.D., Conceptual Foundations of Science, Chicago) is an Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University.  Her book publication, based on her research as a postdoctoral fellow, is William James at the Margins: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge (Chicago, 2008). (MIT Press, 2007).

1996-97

Jeffrey Sklansky (Ph.D., History, Columbia) is an Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University. His book publication, based on his research as postdoctoral fellow, is The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 (North Carolina, 2002).

1995-96

Jessica Riskin (Ph.D., History, Berkeley) is an Associate Professor of History, Stanford University. Her book publication, based on her research as a postdoctoral fellow, is Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (Chicago, 2002).

1994-95

Ayval Ramati Leshem (Ph.D., History, UCLA) is an Assistant Professor of History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her book publication, based on her research as a postdoctoral fellow, is Newton on Mathematics and Spiritual Purity (Kluwer, 2003).

1993-94

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi (Ph.D., History of Consiousness, UC Santa Cruz) is currently an independent scholar. Her book publication, based on her research as a postdoctoral fellow, is The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard, 2005).

1992-93

Mi Gyung Kim (Ph.D., History, UCLA) is an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, Charlotte.  Her book publication, based on her research as a postdoctoral fellow, is Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution (MIT, 2003, 2008).