Current Beckman Center Staff and Fellows

Beckman Center Staff

The Beckman Center's staff direct and organize the fellowship program, as well as academic programming that supports the Beckman Center's mission to foster independent historical research on science, medicine, technology, or industry.

Ashley Augustyniak, Fellowship Coordinator

Carin Berkowitz, Associate Director of the Beckman Center

Ronald Brashear, Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library and Director of the Beckman Center

Beckman Center Fellows

The Chemical Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointments of the Beckman Center Fellows and Center for Contemporary History and Policy Visiting Fellows for the academic year 2011–12.

Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellows

Augustin Cerveaux (University of Strasbourg, France), Cain Fellow: “‘From an Art to a Science’: Changes in Paint Chemistry and Technology in Progressive Era America and the Great Depression”
Catherine Jackson (University College London, UK), Cain Fellow: “Material World: Analysis, Synthesis, and the Making of Modern Chemistry”
Brendan Matz (Yale University), Haas Fellow: “The Science of Nutrition in Germany and the United States, 1870–1920”
J. Emmanuel Raymundo (Tulane University), Edelstein Fellow: “National Skin: Contact, Conflict and the Culion Leper Colony in the US Occupied Philippines, 1902-1941”
Doogab Yi (National Institutes of Health), Haas Fellow: “The Organized Search for the Oncogene: ‘Proto’ Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, and the History of the War on Cancer, 1964–1980”

Long-Term Dissertation Fellows

Helen Anne Curry (Yale University), ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow: “Accelerating Evolution, Engineering Life: Science, Agriculture, and Technologies of Genetic Modification, 1925–1955”
Melanie Kiechle (Rutgers University), ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow: “‘The Air We Breathe’: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air”
Jongmin Lee (Virginia Tech), Edelstein Fellow: “Regulatory Engineering in the EPA: Chemical Monitoring, Catalytic Converters, and the Controlled Environment”
Christine Nawa (University of Regensburg, Germany), Price Fellow: “Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s Research Style and His Teaching”

Short-Term Fellows

Sarah Everts (Chemical & Engineering News), Ullyot Scholar, 2 months: “Sweat Science: The Science, Culture, History and Commercialization of Perspiration, the Chemical Cocktail That Humanity Produces in Abundant Amounts”
Michelle Francl (Bryn Mawr College), Herdegen Fellow, 2 months: “Sideline Science: Critical Commentaries in 19th-Century Journals and 21st-Century Blogs”
Nathaniel Freiburger (University of California, Davis), Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow, 3 months: “Cultures of Engineering and the Engineering of Politics: The Making of Lithium as an Object of Techno-Scientific Knowledge and Politics in Bolivia”
Apostolos Gerontas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Doan Fellow, 4 months: “Writing the History of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography”
Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Allington Fellow, 2 months: “Placing Robert Boyle’s Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours in Dialogue with the Recipe Arch”
Pedro Ruiz-Castell (University of Valencia, Spain), Allington Fellow, 3 months: “New Identities from the Invisible: The Early Days of Electron Microscopy”
Ulf Schmidt (University of Kent, UK), Doan Fellow, 2 months: “Secret Science: Human Experimentation in Biological and Chemical Warfare Research during the Cold War”
Elena Serrano (CEHIC-UAB, Spain), CHF Fellow, 2 months: “Women and Chemistry in Late 18th-Century Spain: The Chemico-Charitable Activities of the Junta de Damas”
Etienne Stockland (Columbia University), Allington Fellow, 2 months: “Trust, Credit, and Expertise: The Alchemical Practitioners of Elizabethan London”
Changming Wang (Guangxi University for Nationalities, P.R. China), Allington Fellow, 4 months: “The Lives and Studies of Outstanding Chinese Chemistry Students in the United States during the Republic of China (1911–1949): A Comprehensive Investigation of Chemical Dissemination and Cultural Exchange”