Current Scholars

Long-Term Fellows

Gordon Cain Fellowship in Technology, Policy, and Entrepreneurship
The 2007-2008 Gordon Cain Fellow is Roy MacLeod. MacLeod is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney in Australia. While he is at CHF he will be working to complete a major international study of the chemical explosives industry during and after World War I. He will be organizing the Gordon Cain Conference as a workshop dealing with ethical, professional, and institutional questions arising in the development of "dual use" technologies. This would ideally include historians, philosophers, and practitioners from the defense communities in the United Kingdom and the United States, who could be asked to consider the past, present, and future of norms and prohibitions with respect to research and development in chemical weapons.


Robert W. Gore Fellow in Materials Innovation
The 2007-2008 Robert W. Gore Fellow is Doogab Yi, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. His research is on biomedical technologies, specifically the advent of recombinant DNA technologies. While at CHF Yi plans to do case studies covering the academic beginnings of these biomedical technologies through to their commercialization.


John C. Haas Fellowship
The 2007-2008 John C. Haas Fellows are Dominique Tobbell and Emily Pawley.

Dominique Tobbell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the pharmaceutical industry in the second half of the twentieth century. Specifically, she is looking at pharmaceutical innovation in the United States as both a social and a political process. By historicizing the strategies the drug industry has used to solve its political problems, Tobbell hopes to foster more critical thinking among policy makers and the general public as to the strengths, limits, and failures of our current system of private drug development.

Emiliy Pawley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research while a Haas Fellow will focus on the economic system of agriculture in antebellum New York, examining institutions and cultures of agricultural improvement in order to explain how farmers' understanding of their plants and animals altered with the rise of the market economy. Pawley's project reshapes the history of chemistry by combining it with environmental history, the history of popular science, and a growing body of literature describing the rise of quantifying practices during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


Charles C. Price Fellowship in Polymer History
The 2007-2008 Charles C. Price Fellow is Slawomir Lotysz, a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Zielona Gora in Poland. Lotysz is specifically interested in the history of Kevlar and other materials utilized in the creation of bullet-proof vests. As the Price Fellow at CHF he will be researching the broad impact of this chemical technology and its political and societal influences in the United States and abroad.


Short-Term Fellows

Roy G. Neville Fellowship
The 2007 Roy G. Neville Fellows are Gabriele Ferrario and Emily Pawley.

Gabriele Ferrario recently received his Ph.D. in Oriental studies from the Università de Venezia Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. His field of research is medieval alchemy (as attested in Arabic and Hebrew texts) and its bearing on the history of alchemy in Medieval Latin Europe. His current research focuses on the book known as Liber de aluminibus et salibus, which was quite influential in the development of medieval Latin alchemy as testified by its widespread transmission and the fame it gained in Europe in various Latin translations. While at CHF Ferrario plans to use the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library to investigate traditions from this book that were carried through the scientific revolution.

After Emily Pawley's tenure as Haas Fellow ends she will continue her work into the summer as a Neville Fellow, concentrating more closely on the Neville collection for her research (described above under her Haas Fellowship).

Third-Party Fellowships

Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship
The 2007 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow is David Caudill, a professor of law at Villanova University School of Law. Caudill is interested in images of expertise in the chemical sciences and their role and influence in controversial legal contexts, including litigation involving experts and administrative policy or regulatory activities involving expert testimony and reports.

Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship
The 2007 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodson Ullyot Scholar is Augustin Cerveaux, a Ph.D. candidate at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. Cerveaux's research is on the history of nanotechnology. While at CHF his project will focus on the ultrafine particles used in the chemical industries, which play a paramount role in both the welfare of the industries as well as the growing controversy of the toxicity of nanoparticles, namely titanium dioxide.