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Stetten Fellowship
Stetten Fellowship in the History of
Biomedical Sciences and Technology or Medicine.
The Stetten Fellowship seeks to encourage historical research and publication about biomedical sciences and technology and medicine that has been funded by NIH since 1945. Fellowships carry a stipend in the range of $45,000 per year and include health insurance and a work space, computer, and phone in the Office of NIH History. (Fellowships may be renewable to a maximum of 24 months, subject to satisfactory progress.) Stetten Fellows have access to the resources of the Office of NIH History, the collections of the Stetten Museum, the National Library of Medicine, NIH Library, and historical materials in the NIH Institutes relevant to their research projects. The Fellow will conduct research on topics of their choice under the supervision of senior staff of the Office of NIH History and assisted by contacts in the relevant Institute(s). The Fellow will be expected to participate in historical activities on campus, including presentation of one or more seminars and lectures. For more information on the Stetten Fellowship, please see The Stetten Fellow Handbook, which is on the Web at history.nih.gov.
Current Stetten Fellows and their projects: Eric Boyle, PhD (UC Santa Barbara)—history of alternative and complementary medicine at NIH; Todd Olszewski, PhD (Yale)—history of risk factors in terms of cholesterol and cardiovascular health; Laura Stark, PhD (Princeton)—history of NIH policies in ethics of human subject research; Doogab Yi, PhD (Princeton)—history of NIH research in cancer viruses.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2008
Instructions:
Send the following materials via email to martensenr@mail.nih.gov.
1. Your full name and contact information
2. Your research proposal and curriculum vitae (as attachments).
3. Names, addresses, and affiliations of two people who will write you reference letters.
NOTE: Inform the two people who will write in support of your application that they may submit their letters initially via email to martensenr@mail.nih.gov, but that these letters must be received before the deadline, and that hard copies on institutional letterhead stationery must follow for your application to be considered.
All official transcripts must be submitted in hard copy.
They should be sent to:
Stetten Fellowship Committee
Building 45, Room 3AN38
MSC 6330
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-6330
Alice Fisher Society Fellowship
The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing offers a fellowship of $2,500 to support two weeks in residence at the Center and ongoing collaboration with nurse historians here. Selection of Alice Fisher Society scholars will be based on evidence of interest in and aptitude for historical research related to nursing. The scholarships are open to those with masters’ and doctoral level preparation. It is expected that the research and new materials produced by Alice Fisher Society scholars will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing. Fisher scholars will participate in Center activities and will present their research at a Center seminar We are grateful to the Alumni of the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing, who established this fellowship.
Deadline for submission of applications: December 31, 2008
Date of awards: March 31, 2009
Application
The application should be sent via e-mail to either
Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN dantonio@nursing.upenn.edu or
Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN wallbm@nursing.upenn.edu.
The application should not exceed 6 pages double-spaced. The outline below specifies the information which should be included in your application. The form and length of your application should be adapted to the research that you propose to do.
—Aim(s): Begin with a concise statement of the aims of the research that you wish to do in the Center and relate these aims to your own long-term historical research goals.
—Background Significance: Give a brief background of your research idea; this will enable reviewers to place your proposal within the context of the present state of historical knowledge about the study area. Explain the importance you expect your results to have. Please be sure to cite the published work of others which relates to your topic.
—Previous Work: Describe briefly any work that you have done in this area or in closely related studies. Cite personal publications, if any. Be sure to enclose a sample of your writing, whether published or unpublished.
—Methods: Explain how you intend to approach your study and, where appropriate, the parts of the Center's collections that you will use to achieve your aims. The Center's collections are listed at http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/collections.htm.
—Facilities: Describe existing resources at your disposal-such as other collections-which will help you in carrying out this project. Note whether other collections in the Philadelphia region might be helpful in your research.
—Other Research Support: Include an overview of your existing and pending research support.
—Budget: Outline and itemize budget detailing the ways that you will be using the fellowship and briefly justifying the items.
—Curriculum Vitae: Please include a resume of professional accomplishments including education, research publications and other publications relevant to the project you propose.
—Process of Review:
Each application will be reviewed by two members of the Alice Fisher Society Fellowship Review Committee. The committee will make its decision about the 2009 winner of the Alice Fisher Society Fellowship as promptly as possible. Every effort will be made to notify the applicants of the committee's decision by March 31, 2009.
Lillian Sholtis Brunner Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing
Directions
The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing offers an annual fellowship of $2,500 to support two weeks in residence at the Center and ongoing collaboration with nurse historians here. Selection of Brunner scholars will be based on evidence of preparation and/or productivity in historical research related to nursing. Candidates with doctoral preparation will be preferred but the fellowships are open to those with pre-doctoral preparation. Brunner scholars will participate in Center activities and will present their research at a Center seminar. It is expected that the research and new materials produced by Brunner scholars will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing.
Deadline for submission of applications December 31, 2008
Date of awards: March 31, 2009
Application
The application should be sent via e-mail to either
Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN dantonio@nursing.upenn.edu or
Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN wallbm@nursing.upenn.edu.
The application should not exceed 6 double-spaced pages. The outline below specifies the information which should be included in your application. The form and length of your application should be adapted to the research that you propose to do.
— Aim(s): Begin with a concise statement of the aims of the research that you wish to do in the Center and relate these aims to your own long-term historical research goals.
— Background Significance: Give a brief background of your research problem: this will enable reviewers to place your proposal within the context of the present state of historical knowledge about the study area. Explain the importance you expect your results to have. Please be sure to cite the published work of others which relates to your topic.
— Previous Work: Describe briefly any work that you have done in this area or in closely related studies. Cite personal publications, if any. Be sure to enclose a sample of your work whether published or unpublished.
— Methods: Explain how you intend to approach your study and, if appropriate, the parts of the Center's collections that you will use to achieve your aims. The Center's collections are listed at http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/collections.htm.
— Facilities: Describe existing resources at your disposal-such as other collections-which will help you in carrying out this project. Note whether other collections in the Philadelphia region might be helpful in your research.
— Other Research Support: Include an overview of your existing and pending research support.
Budget: Outline and itemize budget detailing the ways that you will be using the fellowship and briefly justifying the items.
— Curriculum Vitae: Please include a resume of professional accomplishments including education, research publications and other publications relevant to the project you propose.
— Process of Review
Each application will be reviewed by two members of the Brunner Fellowship Review Committee. The committee will make its decision about the 2009 winner of the Brunner Fellowship as promptly as possible. Every effort will be made to notify the applicants of the committee's decision by March 31, 2009.
Summer Seminar
Monica Green (Arizona State University) and Walton O. Schalick, III (University of Wisconsin) have received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to run a Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers in London next summer, July 5 - August 8, 2009. Based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London, and the Wellcome Library, the seminar "Disease in the Middle Ages" will gather scholars from across the disciplines interested in questions of health, disease and disability in medieval Europe. A primary goal will be to explore how the new scientific technologies of identifying pathogens (particularly leprosy and plague) can inform traditional, humanistic methods (historical, literary, art historical, and linguistic) of understanding cultural responses to disease and disability. A stipend of $3800 is provided to all participants. Deadline for applications is March 2, 2009. For further information, contact the
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
4th Floor, Lattie F. Coor Hall
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874402
Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-4661
Fax: (480) 965-1681
MedievalSeminar2009@asu.edu
http://medievalseminar2009.asu.edu/
Fulbright
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture or do research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.cies.org for descriptions of awards and new eligibility requirements. If you are interested in requesting materials, please write to apprequest@cies.iie.org
please feel free to contact us at anytime.
Athena Mison Fulay
Program Officer -- Outreach and Communications
Fulbright Scholar Program Council for International Exchange of Scholars
3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L
Washington, DC 20008-3009
(202) 686 6242
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(202) 362 3442
afulay@cies.iie.org
Fellowships in the History of Medicine
2009-2010
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is pleased to offer two annual fellowships to support research in the history of medicine. Established in 1960 as a result of an alliance between the Boston Medical Library and the Harvard Medical Library, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is the largest academic medical library in the United States. The Countway Library maintains a collection of approximately 700,000 volumes. Its Center for the History of Medicine holds 250,000 books and journals published before 1920, including 802 incunabula. The department’s printed holdings include one of the most complete medical periodical collections, an extensive collection of European medical texts issued between the 15th and 20th centuries, and excellent holdings of pre-1800 English and pre-1900 American imprints. The book collection is strong in virtually every medical discipline and is particularly rich in popular medicine, medical education, public health, Judaica, and travel accounts written by physicians. The Countway's collection of archives and manuscripts, approximately 20 million items, is the largest of its kind in the United States. The manuscript collection includes the personal and professional papers of many prominent American physicians, especially those who practiced and conducted research in the New England region, or who were associated with Harvard Medical School. The Countway Library also serves as the institutional archives for the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health. The printed, manuscript, and archives holdings are complemented by an extensive print and photograph collection and the collections of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Established in 1847, the museum houses an exceptional collection of medical artifacts, pathological specimens, anatomical models, and instruments.
The Francis A. Countway Library Fellowships in the History of Medicine provide stipends of up to $5,000 to support travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible period between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010. The fellowship proposal should demonstrate that the Countway Library has resources central to the research topic. Preference will be given to applicants who live beyond commuting distance of the Countway. The application, outlining the proposed project (proposal should not exceed five pages), length of residence, materials to be consulted, and a budget with specific information on travel, lodging, and research expenses, should be submitted, along with a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation, by January 31, 2009.
Applications should be sent to:
Countway Fellowships, Center for the History of Medicine
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115
The appointment will be announced by March 15, 2009.
The Boston Medical Library’s Abel Lawrence Peirson Fund provides support for the fellowship program. The Boston Medical Library is a physicians' non-profit organization, incorporated in 1877. Its mission is "to be a Library for the dissemination of medical knowledge, the promotion of medical education and scholarship, and the preservation and celebration of medical history, and thereby to advance the quality of health and healthcare of the people." Today there are over 300 fellows of the Boston Medical Library. In 1960, the Boston Medical Library entered into an agreement with the Harvard Medical School Library to combine staff, services, and collections into one modern biomedical facility. The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine opened in 1965 and ranks as one of the largest biomedical libraries in the world.
PhD Studentship, University of Cambridge: History of the Placenta
since 1750
Supervisors: Martin H. Johnson and Nick Hopwood
The Centre for Trophoblast Research at the University of Cambridge
aims to fund up to three PhD studentships at Wellcome Trust rates
starting in October 2009 for three years of full-time research
http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/studentships.shtml. We are
offering a project on the history of the placenta.
The placenta has a rich and important past that has yet to attract
sustained historical attention. Possible projects could focus on such
various aspects as anatomy, physiology and evolution, pathological
examination and legal regulation, midwifery, obstetric and lay
practices, and claims as to the placenta’s special powers. There is
wide scope to choose a topic of interest in a period since 1750 and
with an appropriate geographical location.
Supervision will be provided by Martin H. Johnson (Physiology,
Development and Neuroscience) and Nick Hopwood (History and
Philosophy of Science). The project will benefit from participation
in the University’s programme of historical research on generation
and reproduction and specifically on embryology.
Interested students (UK, EU or overseas) should have at least a high
upper second (or equivalent) in a first degree, preferably in the
biological sciences, and ideally also a strong performance in a
master’s in history of science and/or medicine. We invite initial
expressions of interest, including a CV and sample of written work,
by 10 December 2008 for a Centre deadline of 9 January and interview
on 28 January 2009.
Martin Johnson mhj21@cam.ac.uk
http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/johnson/index.html
Nick Hopwood ndh12@cam.ac.uk
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/hopwood.html
Grants
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Grants
The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of eighteen major cultural agencies, will offer up to twelve awards in 2009-2010. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Applications are welcome from anyone with a serious need to use the collections and facilities of the organizations. The Consortium's grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies. Each award will be for research at a minimum of three different institutions. Fellows must work at each of these organizations for at least two weeks. Grants in this cycle are for the year June 1, 2009-May 31, 2010. For more information visit www.masshist.org/fellowships or contact
Jane Becker,
Massachusetts Historical Society,
1154 Boylston St. ,
Boston , MA 02215
fellowships@masshist.org
617-646-0518. Application Deadline: February 1, 2009.
Bakken Travel Grants
Bakken Travel Grants
Scholars and artists are invited to apply for travel fellowships and grants, which the Bakken Library and Museum in Minneapolis offers to encourage research in its collection of books, journals, manuscripts, prints, and instruments. The awards are to be used to help defray the expenses of travel, subsistence, and other direct costs of conducting research at the Bakken.
Visiting Research Fellowships are awarded up to a maximum of $1,500; the minimum period of residence is two weeks, and preference is given to researchers who are interested in collaborating informally for a day or two with Bakken staff during their research visit. Research Travel Grants are awarded up to a maximum of $500 (domestic) and $750 (foreign); the minimum period of residence is one week.
The next application deadline for either type of research assistance is February 20, 2009.
For more details and application guidelines, please contact:
Elizabeth Ihrig, Librarian
The Bakken Library and Museum
3537 Zenith Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN., 55416
tel 612-926-3878 ext. 227
fax (612) 927-7265
e-mail Ihrig@thebakken.org
www.thebakken.org
Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison -Madison Libraries
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries is pleased to offer a minimum of four grants-in-aid annually, each one month in duration, for research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the library’s collections. The purpose is to foster the high-level use of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries’ rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars. Awards are $2,000 each, or $3,000 for those traveling from outside North America.
Memorial Library, the university’s principal research library is distinguished in almost every area of scholarship. It boasts world-renowned collections of:
• history of science from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment
• pseudo science and medical and scientific quackery
• the largest American collection of avant-garde “Little Magazines”
• a rapidly growing collection of American women writers to 1920
• Scandinavian and Germanic history and literature
• Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history
• French political pamphlets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• many other fields
Generally, applicants must have a Ph.D. or be able to demonstrate a record of solid intellectual accomplishment. Scholars and graduate students who have completed all requirements except the dissertation are also eligible.
The grants-in-aid are designed primarily to help provide access to UW—Madison library resources for people who live beyond commuting distance. Preference will be given to scholars who reside outside a 75-mile radius of Madison. The grantee is expected to be in residence during the term of the award, which may be taken up at any time during the year.
Applications are due 1 February of any year. For application forms or more information, see http://giving.library.wisc.edu/friends/grant-in-aid.shtml, or write to Friends of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries
University of Wisconsin—Madison
990 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706
or contact
the Friends at 608-265-2505; fax: 608-265-2754
E-mail: friends@library.wisc.edu
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Research Award
FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN NURSING
Directions for Applicants
The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is offering an award of $1,200 to a faculty member to support historical research in nursing. Selection of faculty scholars will be based on evidence of preparation and/or productivity in historical research and/or teaching related to nursing. It is expected that the research and new materials produced by Buhler-Wilkerson scholars will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing. Recipients will participate in Center activities and will present their research at a Center seminar.
Deadline for submission of applications: December 31, 2008
Date of awards: March 1, 2009
Application
The application should be sent via e-mail to either Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN (dantonio@nursing.upenn.edu) or Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN (wallbm@nursing.upenn.edu). Three typed copies of the proposal should be sent to the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, 307 Nursing Education Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096.
The application should not exceed 6 pages double-spaced. The outline below specifies the information which should be included in your application. The form and length of your application should be adapted to the research that you propose to do.
— Aim(s): Begin with a concise statement of the aims of the research that you wish to do in the Center and relate these aims to your own long-term historical research goals.
— Background Significance: Give a brief background of your research problem: this will enable reviewers to place your proposal within the context of the present state of historical knowledge about the study area. Explain the importance you expect your results to have. Please be sure to cite the published work of others which relates to your topic.
— Previous Work: Describe briefly any work that you have done in this area or in closely related studies. Cite personal publications, if any. Be sure to enclose a sample of your work whether published or unpublished.
— Methods: Explain how you intend to approach your study and, where appropriate, the parts of the Center's collections that you will use to achieve your aims. See the attached list of the Center's collections.
— Facilities: Describe existing resources at your disposal-such as other collections-which will help you in carrying out this project. Note whether other collections in the Philadelphia region might be helpful in your research.
— Other Research Support: Include an overview of your existing and pending research support.
Budget: Outline and itemize budget detailing the ways that you will be using the fellowship and briefly justifying the items.
— Curriculum Vitae: Please include a resume of professional accomplishments including education, research publications and other publications relevant to the project you propose.
— Process of Review
Each application will be reviewed by 2 members of the Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Award Committee. The committee will make its decision about the 2009 winner as promptly as possible. Every effort will be made to notify the applicants of the committee's decision by March 1, 2009.
The Chronicle of Higher Education maintains an extensive website of employment notices, grant programs and academic fellowships in all areas.