Current Graduate Students

Lisa Boult (History of Medicine)
Lisa is an assistant professor in geriatric medicine at Hopkins’ Bayview campus.
Email: lboult1@jhmi.edu

Thomas Berez (History of Science and Technology)
Tom has an undergraduate degree and master's degree in engineering from Clarkson University, and wrote his master's thesis on the history of fluid dynamics. His current interests include the history of German science after the Second World War.
Email:  tberez1@jhu.edu

Cassidy Brown (History of Science and Technology)
Cassidy graduated from Wake Forest University with joint degrees in History and Chemistry. Her primary interests like in the corrrelation between technological developments and social stratification, both in local communities and in the broader context of globalization.
Email: cassidy.brown@jhu.edu

Barbara Chubak (History of Medicine)
Barbara is taking time from her medical studies to do a master's degree in the history of medicine. She is interested in early modern medicine in England.
Email: barbara@jhmi.edu

Charles Crossett (History of Science and Technology)
Chuck received degrees in engineering from the University of Southern California (B.S. Aerospace Engineering, M.S. Systems Architecture and Engineering), and is currently a member of the staff at JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. His work involves providing technology advice and analysis to chief engineers and technical directors within the government. He has previously taught for JHU’s Whiting School of Engineering in their part-time Systems Engineering program. His interests include history of the system sciences, including system approaches and analysis, as well as the history of the space sciences and corresponding technology.
Email: Chuck.Crossett@jhuapl.edu

Brian Danielak (History of Science and Technology)
Brian graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with majors in Chemistry and English.  His interests include the history of 20th-century physics and the history of pedagogy in science.  He puts his love of teaching into practice each summer at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
Email:  briandk@jhu.edu

Sandra Eder (History of Medicine)
Sandra received her M.Phil in History from the University of Vienna, Austria and her MA in American Studies from Columbia University. She is interested in the history of 20th century biomedicine, especially post WW II endocrinology, sexuality, gender and sexual differentiation.
Email: seder1@jhmi.edu

Melissa Grafe (History of Medicine)
Melissa's interests lie with the history of medicine in 18th and 19th century America, focusing on folk cures and social medicine. She is a public historian with experience in the museum field.
Email: mgrafe1@jhmi.edu

Kaori Iida (History of Science and Technology)
Kaori holds a Ph.D. in genetics from Pennsylvania State University, and is interested in history of biology in the twentieth century, women in science, and history of science in Japan.
Email: kiida1@jhu.edu

Ami Karlage (History of Medicine)
Ami is a Harvard graduate who was research assistant to the physician and medical writer Atul Gawande. She is interested in 20th century biomedicine, with a focus on genetics and bioethics in the second half of the twentieth century. Email: akarlag1@jhmi.edu

Susan Lamb (History of Medicine)
Susan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Toronto. Her primary area of research is the history of psychiatry and the development of psychosomatic medicine and its practitioners in the twentieth century. She maintains a strong interest in combining material culture methodologies with traditional historical sources, and using the objects and artifacts of medicine to grapple with new questions about its past.
Email: slamb4@jhmi.edu

Tulley Long (History of Science and Technology)
Tulley earned a Master's degree in the History of Science from Oregon State University after receiving a couble BS in microbiology and environmental science and working as a molecular biologist at the same institution. Her MS thesis focused on a large forest ecology study in the United States during the 1970s.  At Hopkins, Tulley continues to explore interests in the history of ecology and its intersections with environmentalism, natural resource management and policy, and public health in the twentieth century.
Email: tulley@jhu.edu

Cynthia Love (History of Science and Technology)
Cynthia obtained her bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University and is interested in the history of genetics, especially medical genetics. (On leave of absence 2007-2008).
Email: clove080903@yahoo.com

Abigail Markoe (History of Medicine, Public Health)
Abigail got her B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Medicine from The George Washington University. She studies the history of public health and medicine in southern Africa, specifically the history of maternal and child health in Zambia. She is also working towards a Masters of Health Sciences in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, combining her historical and contemporary interests in African child health.
Email: amarkoe1@jhmi.edu

Allison Marsh (History of Science and Technology)
Allison was a double major in engineering and history (BS/BA) at Swarthmore College. As a Watson Fellow she researched a travel guidebook for engineers, focusing on industrial sites in Britain and Germany. After working as a consultant for several years, she returned to school and is writing a dissertation on industrial tourism. Allison has a strong interest in museum work and public history. For one of her fields she worked at the National Museum of American History on the exhibit America on the Move, a redesign of the transportation hall.  Allison is currently employed as Curator at the National Postal Museum, Washington, DC, while she finishes her dissertation.
Email: allison.c.marsh@gmail.com

Andrew Nelson (History of Medicine)
Email: anelso24@jhmi.edu

Massimo Petrozzi (History of Medicine)
Massimo studied philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. His general interests include the representation of non-human animals’ bodies in science and medicine in 17th and 18th century Italy and the relationship between gender, science, and medicine.
Email: mpetroz1@jhmi.edu

Katherine Reinhart (History of Science and Technology)
Katie holds a B.A. in the History of Science and Art History and a certificate in European Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though fascinated by all aspects of the history of science, she is particularly interested in the history of early modern physical sciences, and the dialogue between art and science.
Email: kmreinhart@jhu.edu

Christopher Pierce Salguero (History of Medicine)
Pierce received an M.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia in 2005. His thesis focused on the connections between Theravada Buddhism and traditional medicine in 19th century Thailand. While switching his focus to China, he continues at Hopkins to pursue an interest in the interactions between East Asian medicine, religion, and folk tradition.
Email: pierce@jhmi.edu

James A. Schafer (History of Medicine)
Jimmy earned his B.S. (with Distinction) in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan where he was awarded Magna Cum Laude for his Senior Thesis in the Honors Program. He then worked as a laboratory technician for several years – first at the University of California at Berkeley and then in the Pediatrics Department and the Center for Medical Genetics at Johns Hopkins University – before entering graduate school to pursue his other passion, the history of medicine. Jimmy's general interests in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century American medicine include the history of private medical practice, the history of disease, the history of doctor-patient relations, and the history of the relationship between medical knowledge, professional identity, and medical practice. His dissertation, entitled “Out of Practice: Demographic and Economic Causes for the Decline of General Medical Practice in Philadelphia, 1900-1940,” characterizes the evolution of private medical practice and the changing career paths, working lives, and social and professional niches of general medical practitioners in early twentieth century American cities, using Philadelphia as a case study.
Email: jaschafe@jhmi.edu

Ellen Silbergeld (History of Medicine)
Email: esilberg@jhsph.edu

Nicholas Spicher (History of Science and Technology)
Nick Spicher received his A.B. in history from Princeton University in 2001, and taught high school mathematics and physics before coming to Johns Hopkins in 2003. His undergraduate thesis examined the development of mathematics and astronomy in Spain under Phillip II, including the foundation of a royal academy of mathematics. His research interests include the foundation of scientific societies throughout early modern Europe and the role of the royal courts as patrons of knowledge.
Email: nspicher@jhu.edu

Olivia Weisser (History of Medicine)
History of disease, epidemics, women and gender.
Email: oweisser@jhmi.edu

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