![]() As a Dibner Research Fellow at The Huntington, Karafantis researches the professionalization of human factors engineering in Cold War America. She received her PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in the history of science and technology, specializing in aerospace history, urban history, and the history of twentieth-century American technology. Karafantis formerly served as the chief historian at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and as the curator of the modern military aviation collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Layne Karafantis is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she conducts research for the Aerospace History Project and performs outreach in the Los Angeles Basin, educating the public about the longstanding influence of the aerospace industry on southern California. Topic: Human-Machine Engineering in a Safety-Critical World Layne Karafantis, Fellow, University of Southern California Bittel is the author of Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America and is co-editor (with Elaine Leong and Christine von Oertzen) of the volume, Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. At The Huntington, she will be focusing on her current book project, A Most Useful and Peculiar Science: Phrenology in Practice in the Nineteenth Century, which re-examines phrenology by concentrating on its users, who applied, adapted and contested it as a source of knowledge on the mind. Topic: A Most Useful and Peculiar Science: Phrenology in Practice in the Nineteenth CenturyĬarla Bittel is Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and specializes in the history of science, technology and medicine in the nineteenth century. ![]() After graduating from Princeton University, Bonner earned his doctorate at Yale as a student of David Brion Davis.ĭIBNER RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYĬarla Bittel, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University As the 2020-21 Rogers Fellow, he will be tracking Confederate privateers, commerce raiders, blockade runners, and slavers across international waters, continuing Huntington research begun as the 2019 Marty and Bruce Coffey Fellow. He has held long-term fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society and at the Humanities Center at the University of Connecticut. A biography titled, Master of Lost Causes: Alexander Stephens and the Confederate Legacy is nearing publication. A nineteenth-century Americanist, he has written three books on the politics of slavery, war, and emancipation. Robert Bonner is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where he served as Chair of the History Department from 2014 to 2020. Topic: The Maritime Menace of the Southern Confederacy ![]() Robert Bonner, Professor, Dartmouth College ROGERS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN 19th-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
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