@ProfRankin

Historian of science & medicine, Tufts prof, mom. Author of _The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, & the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science_.

 Somerville, MA
Joined August 2012
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We'd love to hear your ideas, #AAHM2023! Eds @jgreene2, @gabrielasotolav, and @ProfRankin will be near the @JHUPress table at the book exhibit tomorrow morning after the plenary. Stop by and see us!
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Jeremy Greene@jgreene211 May 2023
Pregaming #AAHM2023 with the ⁦@BHMjournal⁩ eds ⁦@gabrielasotolav⁩ ⁦@ProfRankin⁩
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"Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy & the Emergence of Ecological Malariology within/beyond Imp. Britain" by Tom Quick makes a case for the central role that malariotherapy played in the dev of an ecological approach to malaria research/control: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/8….
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So fortunate to be an editor @BHMjournal with these two. Both are such generous and exciting scholars. Great session with Harvard’s History of Medicine Working Group. We will be back at it at the @aahmhistmed in May! @ProfRankin @jgreene2
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Jeremy Greene@jgreene212 Feb 2023
Just in time for the Superbowl: superb long-form piece in @NewYorker by @ingfeichen featuring historical work of @TheNeuroTimes and Emily Harrison on what we choose to forget we have known about head injuries in sports:
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Ben Gross@bhgross14420 Nov 2022
The Hazen Education Prize—honoring outstanding teaching in #histSTM—goes to @wellerstein for his online explorations of nuclear & #ColdWar history, including his blog (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com) & #NUKEMAP. #HSS22
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Ben Gross@bhgross14420 Nov 2022
The Rainger Prize, awarded by @hssonline's Earth & Environment Forum, goes to @claire_i_webb, whose article "Gaze-Scaling: Planets as Islands in Exobiologists' Imaginaries" examines the use of the "island lab" metaphor in early exobiology research. #HSS22 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…

Gaze-scaling: Planets as Islands in Exobiologists’ Imaginaries

From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, scientists and engineers in the U.S. chartered a new field, exobiology: the search for organic life beyond Earth. Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel Prize-winning sci...

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Ben Gross@bhgross14420 Nov 2022
The Reingold Prize, recognizing an original grad student essay on the history of science & its cultural influences, goes to Alexander Clayton who wrote about the "learned pig" & debates over intelligence in Enlightenment London. More on the pig 🐷-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learne… #HSS22
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Ben Gross@bhgross14420 Nov 2022
This year's Pauly Prize, recognizing the best 1st book on #histSTM in the Americas, goes to Allison Margaret Bigelow for her book, Mining Language, which explores the cross-cultural origins of mining knowledge in the 16th & 17th c. Iberian world. uncpress.org/book/9781469654… #HSS22
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Ben Gross@bhgross14420 Nov 2022
The Levinson Prize is awarded biennially for a book in the history of the life sciences & natural history. This year's winner is Jennifer Bangham, whose book (Blood Relations) examines the history of blood transfusions in 20th c. Britain. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books… #HSS22 #histmed
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Ben Gross@bhgross14420 Nov 2022
The winner of the Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, @beansvelocci, notes that this is first time the award has gone to a trans scholar or an article on transness. They emphasize the relevance of this choice given ongoing persecution of trans people in the US. #HSS22
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Elaine Leong@HistoryElaine4 Nov 2022
Just logged onto the #emroctranscribes sign-up sheet and claimed my first page. So great to see all these names! I'm going with pg 113 of @RCPmuseum MS 502. It starts with a Rx for "Hipp Gowte" which uses black soap & aqua vita, let the fun begin! #histmed #materialhealthtech
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UChicagoPress@UChicagoPress31 Oct 2022
THE POISON TRIALS by @ProfRankin has won the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference's Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for History or Theology! Congratulations! #SCSC2022
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The 2022 Bainton Reference Prize goes to: Bernd Renner, Ed. "A Companion to François Rabelais". The Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies Series, vol. 16. Brill. Many congratulations!! @RSAorg
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The SCSC medal goes to Gary G. Gibbs and Gerhild Scholz Williams. Many congratulations!! directory.roanoke.edu/facult… artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-sta…
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The 2022 Grimm Article Prize goes to: Genelle Gertz and Pasquale Toscano, “The Lost Network of Elizabeth Barton”. Reformation. Many congratulations!! @GenelleGertz tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The 2022 SCSC Literature Prize goes to Clio Doyle for “'Slimy Kempes III Smelling of the Mud': The Terroir of Poetry and the Desire for Change in Barclay's Eclogues”. Sixteenth Century Journal. Many congratulations!! @16cjournal escj.org/article/%E2%80%9Csl…
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The 2022 Roelker Article Prize goes to: Elizabeth Narkin for “Architectural Network as Dynastic Strategy in Fontainebleau’s Galerie des Cerf” Renaissance Quarterly. Many congratulations! doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.3 @RSAorg
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The 2022 Strauss Prize goes to: Martin Christ for “Biographies of a Reformation: Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520-1635”. Oxford University Press. Many congratulations!! @martinchrist201 global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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The 2022 Bainton Literature prize goes to: Lena Cowen Orlin for “The Private Life of William Shakespeare”. Oxford University Press. Many congratulations!! global.oup.com/academic/prod… @OUPAcademic
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