The SHAC Award Scheme: Recipients
SHAC Award Scheme 2019 Recipients
The SHAC Award Scheme for 2019 funded six applicants:
Four New Scholars Awards for Research were made.
Francesca Antonelli, PhD Student, Ehess Paris/University of Bologna, archival research for dissertation “Sociabilité savoirs et strategies de persuasion: Madame Lavoisier promotrice des sciences (1758-1836)”.
Corinna Gannon, PhD Student, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, research travel costs for dissertation “Artist-Alchemists. Material Iconology, aesthetics of production and rhetoric in the artistic reception of the alchemical trope in Rudolfine art (1576-1612)”.
Silvia Pérez Criado, PhD Student, University of Valencia, analysis of the pesticide registry in the archives of the Ministry of Agriculture at the General Archives of the Admnistration (AGA).
Paul Sampson, PhD Student, Rutgers University, archival research for dissertation “Ventilating the Empire: Environmental Machines in the British Atlantic World, 1700-1850”.
In addition, two Subject Development Awards for conferences or the like were approved as follows:
Sarah Lang, PhD Student, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, workshop on Alchemical Laboratory Practice. Textual and Material Legacy.
Marie Thebaud-Sorger, Maison Française, Oxford, and Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris, workshop on materials biographies at the crossroad between natural sciences and humanities: part II rethinking materials.
SHAC Award Scheme 2018 Recipients
The SHAC Award Scheme for 2018 funded nine applicants.
Five New Scholars Awards were made:
Sarah Lang, Project Assistant, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, University of Graz, presentation of research at autumn workshop of Netzwerk Alchemie.
Karoliina Pulkkinen, PhD Student, University of Cambridge, presentation of paper at Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Seattle.
Paul Sampson, PhD Student, Rutgers University, archival research for dissertation “The Sinews of Providence: Environmental Technologies in the British Atlantic World”.
Kim Walker, PhD Student, Royal Holloway and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, research trip to examine two major collections of Pavon cinchona barks in Meise (Belgium) and Madrid.
Mike Zuber, University of Oxford, research trip to Staatsarchiv Bamberg to study archives on alchemist Christian Wilhelm von Krohneman.
In addition, four Subject Development Awards for conferences or the like were approved as follows:
Evan Hepler-Smith, Harvard/Boston College Department of History, workshop on chemical history of environmental health.
Marieke Hendriksen, Utrecht University, workshop on uncovering material knowledge at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Peter Reed, Independent Scholar, California, workshop in Oxford on the changing role of consultants in industry, 1850 to 2000.
Marie Thebaud-Sorger, Maison Française, Oxford, and Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris, workshop on materials biographies at the crossroad between natural sciences and humanities.
SHAC Award Scheme 2017 Recipients
The SHAC Award Scheme for 2017 funded five applicants:
Kristen Schranz, PhD Student, University of Toronto to present a paper entitled “Dr Carmichael Smyth’s Nitrous Acid Fumigation: The Chemical Testimony of James Keir,” at 11 ICHC in Trondheim.
Megan Piorko, PhD Student, Georgia State University, for a research project “The Long Life of Fasciculus Chemicus: Tracing the Provenance and Vernacularization of Dr Arthur Dee’s Alchemical Work”.
Konstantin Kiprijanov, PhD Student, Leeds University to present a paper on the “Didactic Origins of Structural Formulae in Germany” at the 11 ICHC in Trondheim.
Subject Development: Karoliina Pulkkinen, PhD Student, University of Cambridge, Funding to restart ADHOC (Association for the Discussion of History of Chemistry) for academic year 2017-18 in Cambridge.
Subject Development: Sophie Waring, Curator of Chemistry, Science Museum, funding towards a Photography and Chemistry Workshop to be held at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, as part of a scoping exercise for a major exhibition of photography and chemistry to held at the National Science and Media Museum in 2019-2020.
SHAC Award Scheme 2016 recipients
The SHAC Award Scheme for 2016 funded four applicants:
Anna Gielas, PhD student, University of St Andrews, UK: “The establishment of Lorenz Crell’s Chemisches Journal as an instrument of knowledge production”.
Marieke Hendriksen, postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University, the Netherlands: “Boerhaave’s mineral chemistry and its influence on eighteenth-century pharmacy”.
Subject development award: Fabrizio Bigotti, University of Exeter, UK: conference Pisa, Italy, May 2017: “Humours, mixtures, and corpuscles – a medical path to chemical corpuscularism in the seventeenth century”.
Subject development award: Elena Serrano, postgraduate fellow, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany: workshop Oxford, England, spring 2017: “Domesticating the air: the chemistry, material culture, and politics of breathing safely”.
SHAC Award Scheme 2015 Recipients
The SHAC Award scheme for 2015 funded nine applicants:
Thijs Hagendijk, late of Utrecht University, the Netherlands: “Social marginalisation and biography – the case of Henri Dutrochet (1776-1847).”
Konstantin Kiprianov, PhD student, University of Leeds, UK: “”Printing chemistry – consolidation and circulation of visual representations in chemistry within the context of nineteenth-century scientific media.”
Harriet Lloyd, PhD student, University College London, UK: “Davy’s audience – how to stimulate enquiry.”
Ignacio Suay-Matellana, Chemical Heritage Foundation, USA: “Customs laboratories: sites, quality, experts and chemistry in modern Spain.”
Joppe Van Driel, PhD student, University of Twente, the Netherlands: “Salt recycling and chemistry – German-Dutch interactions 1750-1830.”
Agnieszka Rec, PhD student, Yale University, USA: “Alchemical exchange in sixteenth-century Central Europe: Franciszek Mymer and his travelling sons.”
Mike Zuber, PhD student, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands: “Digitising and exploring the Mary Ann Atwood Papers.”
Subject development award: Rémi Franckowiak, University of Lille, France: conference Lille December 2016: “Powers of chemistry from the 17th to the 20th century.”
Subject development award: Georgiana Hedesan, University of Oxford, England: Scientiae Conference, Oxford July 2016.
SHAC Award Scheme 2014 Recipients
The SHAC Award scheme for 2014 funded eight applicants:
Malika Basu, Vivekandanda Mission Mahavidyalaya, India: “History and development of four indigenous pharmaceuticals in Colonial Bengal.”
Judith Mawer, PhD student, Goldsmiths College, UK: “The occult world of Thomas Vaughan (1621-1666), a mystical alchemist and physician living in tumultuous times.”
Hilde Norrgrén, postgraduate student, Oslo University, Norway: “Alchemy on Greenland: Hans Egede and the Philospher’s Stone.”
Cesare Pastorino, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany: “ ‘Minerall tryalls’: metal assaying and experiment in Early Modern England.”
David Singerman, Rutgers University, USA: “Sugar workers and chemical control in Hawaii.”
Subject development award: Fabrizio Bigotti, Exeter University, UK: Workshop “Alchemical melodies: the quest for the musical quintessence in the seventeenth century.”
Subject development award: Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge, England: AD HOC discussion group in Cambridge and London.
Subject development award: Masanori Kaji, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan: International workshop on the history of chemistry “Transformation of chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s” (IWHC 2015).
SHAC Award Scheme 2013 Recipients
The SHAC Award Scheme for 2013 funded five applicants:
Carolyn Cobbold, PhD candidate, Cambridge University: “The German link in an investigation into the transformation of synthetic chemical dyes into food additives in the nineteenth century and the relationship between chemical producers and food manufacturers.”
Bink Hallum, PhD, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library: “Sources of Arabic Chemistry, ‘Zosimus Arabus’ and Rāzī’s Twelve Books.”
Jennifer Rampling, PhD, Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University: “The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemy, Art and Patronage, 1450-1700.”
Haileigh Robertson, PhD candidate, University of York: “Research Trip to The Medieval Centre, Nykøbing, Denmark.”
Subject Development Award: Professor Hasok Chang, Cambridge University: support for AD-HOC discussion group in Cambridge and London.
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SHAC Award Scheme 2012 Recipients
The SHAC Award Scheme for 2012 funded five applicants:
Miss Katherine Allen of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Dr Ignacio Miguel Pascual Valderrama of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research.
Mr. John Stewart of the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Vangelis Koutalis of the University of Ioannina.
Subject Development Award: Professor Hasok Chang, AD-HOC
SHAC Award Scheme 2011 Recipients
The successful applicants for the SHAC Award Scheme 2011 were:
Dr Malika Basu – (New Scholars Award) – Support for research trip Read the Report
Mr Samir Boumediene (New Scholars Award) – Support for research trip “Appropriating the Remedies of the Spanish New World 1570-1750”
Ms Julia Bursten (New Scholars Award) – Support for attendance at conference and research trip
Ms Victoria Cambranes (New Scholars Award) – Support for conference attendance “Reinterpreting the Aurora Consurgens: The Hieros Gamos Theme in Early Medieval Alchemy” Read the Report
Miss Georgiana Hedesan (New Scholars Award) – Support for research trip
Dr Vangelis Koutalis (New Scholars Award) – Support for research trip
Ms Elena Serrano (New Scholars Award) – Support for research trip
Professor Hasok Chang (Subject Development Award) – Continued support of Ad Hoc Cambridge and London
Dr Lauren Kassell (Subject Development Award) – Support for Conference – “Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment”.
SHAC Award Scheme 2010 Recipients
The successful applicants for the SHAC Award Scheme 2010 were:
Dr Leslie Tomory (New Scholars Award) – Support for production of monograph – Progressive Enlightenment: the origins of the gaslight inustry 1780–1820 Read the Report
Dr Peter Forshaw (Subject Development Award) – Alchemy – Between Science and Religion: A Thesis Workshop Read the Report
Professor Hasok Chang (Subject Development Award) – Development and Support of Ad Hoc Cambridge.
SHAC Award Scheme 2009 Recipients
The successful applicants for the SHAC Award Scheme 2009 were:
Dr Danielle Fauque (Subject Development Award) of GHDSC, Paris – The Historical Printed Collections of the Maison de la Chimie at Orsay.
Arjan Linthorst (New Scholars Award) of Maastricht University – The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry. Linthorst Report
Dr Ximi Guillem-Llobat (New Scholars Award) of University of Valencia – New Sites for a New Concept of Pure Food: Municipal Laboratories in France and Spain (1878-1910). Guillem-Llobat report
Miss Jennifer Rampling (New Scholars Award) of Cambridge University – Alchemical Manuscripts in Viennese Archives. Rampling report
M Ronei Mocellin (New Scholars Award) of Universite Paris Ouest – The Development of the Course of Chemistry of Guyton de Morveau in Dijon. Mocellin report
Ms Efthymia Priki (New Scholars Award) of University of Glasgow – The Archives of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam. Priki report
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