(in alphabetical order)
Nicholas Buchanan's dissertation focuses on the role of expert knowledge in resource disputes between West Coast American Indian Tribes and other resource users. More information is available on his HASTS bio page.
Xaq Frohlich is interested in the history of food labeling and regulation in the United States. More information is available on his HASTS bio page.
Meg Heisinger is writing her dissertation on food provisioning in rural Vietnam. More information is available on her HASTS bio page.
Richa Kumar (Christine Walley, committee chair) is writing her dissertation on the role of IT in rural development in India. More information is available on her HASTS bio page.
Jamie Pietruska (Merritt Roe Smith, committee chair), is writing her dissertation on the history of prediction in the Guilded Age. More information is available on her HASTS bio page.
Anya Zilberstein (Harriet Ritvo, committee chair) is writing her dissertation on the history of scientific agricultural improvement in colonial Newfoundland and New England. More information is available on her HASTS bio page.
(most recent to most senior)
Jennifer Smith, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University. Smith's dissertation, "The Soviet Agricultural Complex: Industrial Agriculture in a Socialist Context, 1946-1965," examined the industrialization of Soviet agriculture from an environmental perspective.
Shane Hamilton, Assistant Professor of History, University of Georgia. Hamilton's dissertation, entitled "Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America," examined the role of long-haul trucking in the reshaping of American patterns of food production and consumption. Hamilton received the 2006 Fite Award for best dissertation from the Agricultural History Society.
William Turkel (Harriet Ritvo, committee chair), Assistant Professor of History, University of Western Ontario. Turkel's dissertation, "The Archive of Place: Environment and the Contested Past of a North American Plateau," examined the making of environmental history through a series of case studies of historical controversies in the Chilcotin Plateau, British Columbia.
Greg Galer (Merritt Roe Smith, committee chair), "Forging Ahead: The Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts and Two Centuries of Industrial Enterprise, 1635-1861."
Eric Kupferberg, "The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority in American Bacteriology, 1899-1924."
Karin Ellison, "The Making of a Multiple Purpose Dam: Engineering Culture, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and Grand Coulee Dam, 1917-1942."
Linda Eikmeier Endersby (Merritt Roe Smith, committee chair), "Expositions, Museums, and Technological Display: Building Cultural Institutions for the 'Inventor Citizen" in The Late Nineteenth Century United States."
Rebecca Herzig (Leo Marx, committee chair), Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Bates College, is author of Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America (Rutgers, 2006).
Russell Olwell (Chris Appy, committee chair), "Atomic Workers, Atomic City: Labor and Community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1950."
Brian O’Donnell (with Rosiland Williams, committee co-chair), "The Spindles Stop: Lowell, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire Respond to the Collapse of the New England Textile Industry."
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