People

Postdoctoral Fellows

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  James Bergman

  History of Science

  Harvard University, 2014

  Project: Afterlives of Climate: The Persistence of Data in Climatology, 1933–1963

  James Bergman is a historian of science studying the history of climate science in the middle of the twentieth century. He is writing a book manuscript, Climate on the Ground: Data, Planning, and the Pursuit of... (more)

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  Jacob Doherty

  Anthropology

  Stanford University, 2016

  Project: Waste Worlds: Kampala's Infrastructures of Cleanliness and Disposability

  Jacob Doherty is an anthropologist studying urban infrastructures and environments. His work focuses on the production of disposability as a social and material condition, and the ways lives cast as disposable are,... (more)

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  Adam Foley

  History/Classics

  University of Notre Dame, 2016

  Project: Homer's Winged Words and Humanist Latinity: The Task of Translating Homer in the Italian Renaissance

  Adam Foley recently finished his PhD in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame where he wrote his dissertation on the first Latin translations of Homer in the Italian Renaissance. He has been in... (more)

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  Meg Leja

  History

  Princeton University, 2015

  Project: Beyond the Body and Back Again: The Carolingian Soul and the Afterworld

  Meg Leja is a scholar of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, who specializes in the history of medicine. Her current research explores changing perceptions of the body and the value of medical knowledge in the early... (more)

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  Delia Wendel

  Architectural History and Cultural Geography

  Harvard University, 2016

  Project: Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Memory and Sovereignty

  Delia Duong Ba Wendel is interested in how communities recover and rebuild from conflict and disaster. Her current research explores peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda as a socio-spatial endeavor; one that is... (more)