RCC Welcomes New Fellows, Summer 2011
New Summer 2011 Fellows
06.06.2011
We are pleased to welcome four new fellows who have joined us over the past month.
Simon Werrett, a professor of history at the University of Washington, is a historian of science with an interest in the long-term historical relationships of the arts and sciences. At the Carson Center he is pursuing his research project "Remaking Natural Knowledge: Recycling and the History of Science and Technology (pdf, 13 KB)."
Stephen Bell, a historical geographer focusing on Latin America (Brazil specifically), comes to us from the Department of Geography at UCLA. He will spend his three months at the Carson Center, from June through August, researching land-use issues in Brazil.
Reinhold Leinfelder comes to us from Humboldt University in Berlin, where he is a professor of paleontoogy and geobiology. While at the Carson Center, he will be working on a project entitled "Technology, Nature, and Culture in the Anthropocene: Learning from the Future (pdf, 21 KB)."
Visiting Fellow Jagdish Lal Dawar, an intellectual and cultural historian who focuses on modern and tribal India, will spend June and July away from his post as head of the Department of History and Ethnography at Mizoram University in India to pursue his current project "Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Conservation of Natural Resources among the Hill Tribes of North-East India: Arunachal Pradesh since the Nineteenth Century (pdf, 11 KB)" at the Carson Center.
The RCC is also pleased to welcome back Diana Mincyte, who will resume her work on "The Pasteurization of Lithuania: The Politics of Subsistence and Sustainability in Post-Industrial Europe (pdf, 17 KB)" at the center through August.