Amanda Antonucci earned a B.A. in art conservation and art history from the University of Delaware in 2007. She first joined CHF as the assistant image archivist by maintaining the photographic collection and answering image requests. She was also a member of of the curatorial team for CHF’s ongoing exhibition, Making Modernity. 

Antonucci is now the program assistant for electronics and emerging technology. She is currently working on processing and digitizing Gordon Moore’s archival papers from Intel Corporation.

David Caruso earned a B.A. in the history of science, medicine, and technology from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 and a Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Cornell University in 2007. His dissertation research focused on the interaction of American military and medical personnel from the Spanish-American War through World War I and the institutional transformations that resulted in the rise of American military medicine as a unique form of knowledge and practice.

Caruso is the program manager for CHF’s oral history program. His current research interests are the discipline formation of biomedical science in 20th-century America and the organizational structures that have contributed to such formation.

Chi Chan holds a bachelor’s degree in math from Bucknell University, where he also studied physics and philosophy. Formerly the program associate for CHF’s emerging technologies program, Chan also interned at CHF, gathering and analyzing data for the Gordon Research Conferences.

Hyungsub Choi is manager of the emerging technologies program at the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. His training is in the history of science and technology, with specialties in recent developments in the fields of semiconductors, materials science, and nanotechnology. He has received degrees from Seoul National University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University. Choi’s works have appeared in leading professional journals, such as Technology and Culture and Social Studies of Science.
                                                                                                
Currently, he is preparing a book examining the history of the semiconductor industry in the United States and Japan. He also directs the Robert W. Gore Materials Innovation project. From August 2009 to March 2010 he will be on leave from CHF as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Jennifer Dionisio earned a B.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she also studied sociology. A freelance journalist for both regional and national publications, Dionisio joined CHF in September 2006 as the program assistant for biotechnology. She is now Program Associate for CHF’s Roy Eddleman Institute, where she is the Book Review and Associate Editor of Chemical Heritage magazine.

Hilary Domush completed a B.S. in chemistry at Bates College before earning an M.S. in organic chemistry and an M.A. in the history of science at the University of Wisconsin. As a graduate student, her research focused on 19th-century chemistry in Edinburgh.

As program associate for the oral history program, Domush helps manage the program and conducts oral histories for the Women in Chemistry project.

Sarah Hunter completed an M.S. in public history at Temple University after earning a B.A. in history at the University of Pennsylvania. Before she joined CHF as program assistant for the oral history program, Hunter was the Peregrine Arts’ Samuel W. Fels research intern and Hidden City project coordinator. Additionally, she has been the archives intern for Valley Forge National Historic Park and the curatorial assistant intern for the Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. She also worked as the museum inventory assistant for the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Hunter’s scholarship has focused on the way groups and individuals create, modify, and use their histories through words, objects, landscapes, and memory. As program assistant for the oral history program, Hunter processes oral histories and writes for The Center. Currently, she is developing ways to connect the oral history program’s collections to the public.

Pei Koay earned a Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech in the political and policy studies track; an M.A. in the history and philosophy of science, medicine, and technology from the University of Toronto, with a concentration in the history of biomedicine; and a B.A. in science, technology, and society from the New School for Social Research. Before joining CHF as the program manager for biotechnology history and policy, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University’s Humanities Research Center. She was also a Lingnan Foundation Teaching Scholar at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science Technology and Society in Graz, Austria.

Her work examines and explores institutional changes for medicine, public health, and life sciences as they coalesce under the banner of “personalized genomic medicine”; social and political aspects of race, gender, and the life sciences; the production of expertise and authority in bioscience and biomedical science, technology, and medicine; and historical, social, and political aspects of nature-nurture debates.

Elizabeth McDonnell earned an M.S. in arts administration from Drexel University and a B.A. in creative writing from Franklin and Marshall College. Her graduate research focused on the restructuring of volunteer management strategies in annual Philadelphia festivals. Before joining the Environmental History and Policy Program, she worked at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, as a freelance writer, and as a research assistant for two ongoing book projects.

As the Environmental History and Policy program associate, McDonnell conducts research and works with program staff to propose and develop new projects. She also assists in the design and production of the Studies in Sustainability series, select oral history projects, and the program’s Web content.

Gwen Ottinger holds a Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and B.S. degrees in aerospace engineering and science, technology, and culture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was the 2005–2006 John C. Haas Fellow at CHF. Before returning to CHF as a program researcher in the Environmental History and Policy Program, she taught in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia.

Ottinger’s work focuses on the construction of expertise around environmental justice issues. She has conducted ethnographic research on the relationships between residents, environmentalists, and petrochemical industry experts in a Louisiana community and written about her findings for the Environmental History and Policy Program Studies in Sustainability white-paper series. Her latest research looks at the strategies for ambient air monitoring employed by communities next to petrochemical facilities.

Ron Reynolds is the director of the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. He is also a member of CHF’s leadership team and advises the president on strategic issues. Before joining CHF, Reynolds worked for Sunoco, Inc., where his most recent position was director of acquisitions and business development for the chemicals division. In his career at Sunoco he also had responsibility for various financial, manufacturing, and research functions. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Lafayette College, an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.S. in environmental engineering from Drexel University.

Reynolds’s areas of current research interest are long-term solutions to climate change and future energy sources. His belief is that these issues are fundamentally interrelated. A long-term integrated solution is required for moving from the use of carbon to a system based on energy from the sun and a system where that energy is captured and used without adding new materials to the atmosphere.

Jody Roberts manages the Environmental History and Policy Program in the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in chemistry from St. Vincent College. Before joining the Center he was the Charles C. Price Fellow and Gordon Cain Fellow in the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at CHF.

His work explores changes in the practice of chemistry resulting from technological innovations, social and political pressure, and emerging science. Recently, those interests have led to projects on green chemistry, endocrine disruption, human biomonitoring, chemical regulation, and the evolution of the chemistry laboratory.

Erica Stefanovich completed an M.S. in public history with a specialization in archival science at Temple University after earning a B.A. in English and history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before joining CHF as the program assistant for the oral history program, Stefanovich interned for the Philly History Web site archiving images and writing content and for the American Philosophical Society, where she worked with the manuscript collection of geneticist James V. Neel. 

As a program assistant in the oral history program, she processes and organizes oral histories to prepare them for use by scholars. She also writes for CHF’s podcast, Distillations, and the Center’s blog, The Center.