The Linda Hall Library is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2023-24 research fellowships. The Library will support 24 research fellows during the coming academic year, including both residential and virtual fellows. Residential fellows will travel to Kansas City to explore our collections, while virtual fellows will conduct research remotely using digitized materials.

The 2023-24 cohort is the largest in the fellowship program’s history. Its members come from the United States, as well as universities in Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. These doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and independent researchers will use the Library’s holdings to investigate the history of science, technology, and engineering. Their projects cover a wide range of topics, including the construction of electric power networks in the Caribbean, popular science education in the Soviet Union, and the invention of color printing in early modern Germany.

This year, the Linda Hall Library will also offer several specialized research fellowships for the first time:

• Roger Hart, a professor in the Department of History & Geography at Texas Southern University, received the Library’s first National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• Garrett McKinnon, an incoming assistant professor of history at North Carolina State University, was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Jerome Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History.
• As part of an ongoing collaboration with the UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative, the Library is offering virtual research fellowships to three Ukrainian scholars: Oleksiy Boldyriev, Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, and Oleksandr Okhrimenko.

In addition, a fourth Ukrainian researcher, Yurii Vasiliev, was awarded the History of Science and Medicine Fellowship, which has been jointly sponsored by the Linda Hall Library and the Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center since 2019.

Further information about these scholars and their research projects will be posted on the fellowship program website prior to the start of the academic year on July 1, 2023. For now, please join us in welcoming the 2023-24 fellows to the Linda Hall Library’s scholarly community!

2023-24 Linda Hall Library Fellows

• Sophie Emma Battell (University of Zurich), Virtual Fellow
  Sun Cultures in Early Modern England
• Michael Berkowitz (University College London), Residential Fellow
  Competition, Prejudice, and Art in Color Photography
• Oleksiy Boldyriev (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology of NAS of Ukraine), Ukraine Fellow
  Cell Culturing Pioneers at the Edge of the Prison Cell: Cell Biology Advances in Kyiv in the Politically Turbulent Early Twentieth Century
• Yulia Cherniavskaia (Rutgers University), Virtual Fellow
  “Knowledge is Power”: Popular Science and the Making of a Well-Rounded Person in the Postwar USSR, 1943–1991
• Sylvan Goldberg (Colorado College), Residential Fellow
  Spontaneous Generation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture
• Christopher Halm (Deutsches Museum), Virtual Fellow
  Over 50 Years of Moon Rocks on Planet Earth: The Value of Their Cultural, Global, and Techno-Scientific History
• Roger Hart (Texas Southern University), NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
  Quantum States, Quantum Entanglements: China, the U.S., and the Global Race for Quantum Supremacy
• Liz Kambas (Indiana University Bloomington), Residential Fellow
  Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier and the Arsenal Laboratory
• Emy Kim (Queen’s University, University of Toronto), Virtual Fellow
  Social Seams: The Technoculture of Early Welders
• Martin-Oleksandr Kisly (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Ukraine Fellow
  Crimean Land Under Colonial Rule
• Yandong Li (University of Washington), Virtual Fellow
  Energy Objects: Histories and Cultural Practices of Techno-Environment in Rural China
• Breanna Lohman (University of Toronto), Residential Fellow
  In Real Time: Nuclear Defense, Computation, and the Reinvention of Digital Time in the Age of the Anthropocene
• Pamela Long (Independent Scholar), Virtual Fellow
  The Lure of the Machine in Early Modern Europe: From Francesco di Giorgio to Vittorio Zonca
• Garrett McKinnon (North Carolina State University), Pearson Fellow in Aerospace History
  Automating Violence: A History of United States Drone Warfare
• Oleksandr Okhrimenko (Independent Scholar), Ukraine Fellow
  Hand, Pen, and Destruction: The Reading Practices Evidenced by the Incunable Collections from the Linda Hall Library and Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine
• Nydia Pineda de Ávila (University of California, San Diego), Virtual Fellow
  Writing a New Selenography: Recreating Techniques and Space-Time Poetics in Lunar Mapping (1630-1700)
• Sebastian James Rose (University of Greenwich), Virtual Fellow
  The Telegraph from Below: Labor, Race, and Gender in U.S. Telegraph Networks
• Elizabeth Savage (University of London), Virtual Fellow
  Colour Printmaking and the Transformation of Visual Information in Early Modern Germany, 1476–c.1600
• Chelsea Schields (University of California, Irvine), Residential Fellow
  Charged Currents: Electric Power in the Caribbean
• Ritam Sengupta (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Virtual Fellow
  Conceiving the Durability of the “Energy-Irrigation Nexus” in Indian Agriculture, 1910s–1970s
• Peter Soland (Southeast Missouri State University), Residential Fellow
  The Radiance of Tlatelolco: Politics, Culture, and Nuclear Technology in Latin America, 1938–1994
• Kara Swanson (Northeastern University), Residential Fellow
  Inventing Citizens: Race, Gender, and Patents in United States History
• Yurii Vasyliev (Sumy State University), History of Science and Medicine Fellow
  The History of Medical Police and its Transformation into Social Hygiene and Public Health
• Helbert Velilla Jiménez  (École Normale Supérieure, Université Paris PSL, University of Salamanca), Residential Fellow
  Mathematical Cosmography to the Service of Global Empires