Jack D. Pressman--Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award: Winners

 

2011- Deborah Levine
Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Management at Providence College, for her project "Managing Bodies in the Land of Plenty: 1840-1945."

 

2010- Matthew Smith
Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, for his project "Food for Thought: Hyperactivity, Food Additives and the Feingold Diet."

 

2009 -Joseph M. Gabriel
The Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences in the Florida State University College of Medicine, for his manuscript Gods and Monsters: Drug Addiction and the Origins of Modern America.

 

2008 -Dr. Mical Raz
History of medicine at Tel Aviv University
“Rereading Lobotomy: Crossing Boundaries in the History of Psychosurgery in the United States, 1935 – 1955.”

2007 -Mariola Espinosa
Department of History, Southern Illinois University
"Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and Limits of Cuban Independence."

 

2006 -Amir Arsalan Afkhami
Department of Psychiatry, NY Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Weill Medical Center
The role of public health in the development of Iran as a nation, especially the way disease contributed to the patriotic and radical rhetoric of reform in Iran

 

2004 -Julia Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire
"Civilizing Argentina: Science and the State Against Barbarism"

 

2002 -No Award

 

2000 -David Serlin
for completing a book: Not Who We Used to Be: Remaking the American Body in Cold War Culture