For a more detailed list of student accomplishments and activities please see the Program website at http://web.jhu.edu/hsmt
Katherine Arner (History of Medicine)
Email: karner1@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 Lisa Boult (History of Medicine)
Lisa received her BA from Radcliffe College, her MD from Yale University and her MPH from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the history of disease, the history of aging, and 18th and 19th-century American medicine. She is a faculty member in the Division of Geriatrics at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Email: lboult1@jhmi.edu Cassidy Brown (History of Science and Technology)
Cassidy graduated from Wake Forest University with joint degrees in History and Chemistry. Her main interests lie in the correlation between technological developments and social stratification, both in local communities and in the broader context of globalization.
Email: cassidy.brown@jhu.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 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 received her undergraduate degree in History and Politics from Ursinus College. She is interested in 18th and 19th-century American medicine, particularly medical practice. Her dissertation is titled: "Making 'Medical Hall': Dr. John Archer, Medical Practice, and Apprenticeship in Early Americia, 1769-1820." 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 gnetics and bioethics in the second half of the 20th 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 Seth LeJacq (History of Medicine)
Seth has a BA in History and Government from Cornell University. He is interested in how fertility and reproduction were understood in early modern Europe, especially England, and the relationships between putative expert knowledge and vernacular knowledge.
Email: slejacq1@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 Abigail Markoe (History of Medicine, Public Health)
Abigail got her B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Medicine from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. 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 Public Health Sciences in International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, combining her historical and contemporary interests in African child health.
Email: amarkoe1@jhmi.edu 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, history of astronomy, and the dialogue between art and science.
Email: kmreinhart@jhu.edu Christopher Pierce Salguero (History of Medicine)
Pierce is interested in Buddhism's role as a vehicle for medical knowledge and crosscultural exchange throughout Asia. After having written an MA thesis on religion and traditional medicine in 18th to 20th-century Thailand, Pierce is now concentrating on Buddhist healing in early medieval China (200-600 AD). This fascinating period saw the introduction of new texts, ideas, and practices from India and Central Asia, and their integration into the Chinese indigenous worldview. His broader interests are in the history of relious healing and crosscultural exchange globally -- what he calls "world history through the history of religion and medicine."
Email: pierce@jhmi.edu Ellen Silbergeld (History of Medicine)
Email: esilberg@jhsph.edu Nicholas Spicher (History of Science and Technology)
Nick 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 Simon Thode (History of Science and Technology)
Simon recieved his BA, majoring in history, and MA (hons) from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He wrote his master's thesis on the development of the idea of extinction in natural history. He is currently interested in issues of scientific community, American science, and 19th-century science.
Email: simon.thode@jhu.edu Olivia Weisser (History of Medicine)
Oliva graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in History. She now studies the history of patients and sickness in early modern England. Her dissertation is tentatively titled: "Gender and Illness in 17th-century England."
Email: oweisser@jhmi.edu | 
