Melanie Kiechle
Haas Fellow
Melanie Kiechle was a fellow at the Institute for two consecutive years, working on her dissertation “‘The Air We Breathe’: 19th-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air.”
Stories from Melanie Kiechle
Distillations Magazine
The Smell Detectives
During the 1860s and 1870s, was a booming New York City’s stench choking the health from its citizens? Chemist Charles Frederick Chandler aimed to find out.