Recent Graduates

Crispin Barker
Cornell U., B.A.; Yale U., M.A., M.S., M.Phil.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2008
“Biomedical Research into Human Aging, 1937-1998”
crispin.barker@aya.yale.edu

Frederick R. Davis
Harvard U., A.B.; U. of Florida, M.A.; Yale U., M.Phil
Yale U., Ph.D. – December, 2001
“Pesticides and Toxicology: Episodes in the Evolution of Environmental
Risk Assessment”
Associate Professor of History, Florida State University
fdavis@fsu.edu

David K. Hecht
Brandeis U., B.A.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2005
“Tumult in the Clouds: Robert Oppenheimer and American Science”

dhecht@bowdoin.edu

Danian Hu
Case-Western Reserve U., M.A.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2001
“Einstein and His Relativity Theory in China: The Introduction,
Assimilation and Reaction, 1917-1979”
danian.hu@aya.yale.edu

Randy Ryan Kidd
The Colorado College, B.A.; Western Washington U., M.A.
Yale U., Ph.D. – December 2001
“New Wine in Old Wineskins: Traditional Beliefs about the Heart and Blood among
the Oxford,Group, 1650-1680”

Gretchen Marie Krueger
Yale U., Ph.D. – December, 2003
“’A Cure is Near’: Children, Families, and Cancer in America, 1945-1980”

Sarah Lewis
Yale U., B.A.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2003
“Jean Pecquet (1622-1674) and the Thoracic Duct: The Controversy over the Circulation
of the Blood and Lymph in Seventeenth-century Europe”

Beth Linker
Ithaca College, B.S.; Michigan State U., M.A.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2006
“For Life and Limb: The Reconstruction of a Nation and its Disabled Soldiers in
World War 1 America”
Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
linker@sas.upenn.edu

Kari Suzanne McLeod
University of Alberta, B.A.; Carlton University, M.A.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2007
“Health Matters: Public Understanding of Health in 1950s America”

Christiane Nockels
U. de Provence, Lic. L; Yale U., P.A.; Yale U., M.A.; Yale U., M.Phil
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2006
“Continuity and Change in Late Medieval Plague Medicine: A Survey of 152 Plague
Tracts from 1348-1599”
Clinician, Yale University Health Services
christiane.nockels@yale.edu

Todd Olszewski
Washington University in St. Louis, B.A.; Yale U., M.A.; Yale U., M.Phil.
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2008
“Cholesterol: A Scientific, Medical, and Social History, 1908-1962”

todd.olszewski@aya.yale.edu

Sally Romano
Harvard, B.A.; Yale U., M.A.; Yale U., M.Phil
Yale U., Ph.D. – May, 2006
“The Dark Side of the Sun: Skin Cancer, Sunscreen, and Risk in
Twentieth-Century America”

Neeraja Sankaran
Panjab University, B.Sc.; University of Alberta, M.Sc.; U.C. at Santa Cruz, Cert. Sci. Writing
Yale U., Ph.D. – December 2006
“Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Nature of the Bacteriophage, 1925-1937”
Visiting Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo
neeraja@aucegypt.edu

Mary Yearl
Wellesley College, B.A.; Yale, M.A.; University of Cambridge, M.Phil.
Yale U., Ph.D. – December, 2005
“The Time of Bloodletting”
mkkyearl@gmail.com