More hiring news:
Mary X. Mitchell has joined the history department at
Purdue University as an assistant professor. From the
Purdue website:
Mary X. Mitchell joins Purdue as an assistant professor in the
history department. She earned her PhD in history and sociology of
science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Before beginning
her doctorate, Mitchell worked in university technology licensing,
earned her JD, practiced law, and served as a judicial law clerk to the
Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit.
She is currently an Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow in
Sustainability at Cornell University.
Mitchell is broadly interested in the intersections between law,
technology, and science. Her research explores the transnational legal
histories of nuclear weapons and energy. She is completing a book
manuscript tentatively titled, Test Cases: American Law, Nuclear Weapons, and Extraterritorial Power in the Postwar Pacific. Test Cases
uses legal conflict over nuclear weapons testing to trace the contours
of America’s Pacific expansion following World War II. Mitchell is
concurrently beginning research for a new book about the history of
liability, insurance, and compensation frameworks for nuclear reactor
incidents.
She has published articles in Environmental History, the Journal of the History of Biology, and Change over Time.
Her research has been supported by funders including the William Nelson
Cromwell Foundation. Mitchell will be on leave during the 2017-2018
school year.
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