BENJAMIN W

Support for my scholarship has come from institutions including the American Historical Association, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM), the Fulbright Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service, NASA, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. My work has received awards from the Council for European Studies, the Kansas Historical Foundation, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, among others. I hold a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Harvard University... My current book project, Earthbound: A History of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year, examines the significant expansion and contested nature of Earth science during the retreat of European empires and the reformulation of international order after World War II. To tell this story, I focus on the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-1958, an ambitious global program to understand our planet as a unified environment. The IGY involved..