Fellowships
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Young Scholar
Award in Perinatal Bioethics
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and the March of Dimes are pleased to announce the annual Young Scholar Award in Perinatal Bioethics.
Who is eligible? To be eligible for this award, applicants must be early in their career development, including those who are actively enrolled in graduate school, post-doctoral programs or no higher in their career achievement than the assistant professorship level.
Applicants should submit proposals in the 'Perinatal Ethics' topic category in the ASBH Call for Proposals. Proposals that would fall into the perinatal ethics topic category include but are not limited to topics such as pre-conception health, reproductive decision making, pregnancy, pre-natal genetic testing, labor and delivery, newborn screening, neonatal decision making and other topics related to the perinatal time frame. Proposals may address clinical decision making, research or other bioethical or humanities-related topics. Deadline. Submit an abstract to the ASBH Call for Proposals on the ASBH Web site no later than March 3, 2010 at /meetings/annual/callguidelines.html. To be considered for this award, submit your proposal under the 'Perinatal Ethics' topic category where indicated.
From those submitted abstracts, a select group of applicants will then be asked to submit a full paper for review by the March of Dimes/ASBH review committee. The Award. The award will be presented at the ASBH Annual Meeting in October to the applicant whose paper is selected to be of the highest quality and intellectual rigor among the submitted papers. The award winner will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and will present the paper at a plenary session at the ASBH Annual Meeting, which will feature an invited lecture by a distinguished scholar from the field of perinatal ethics
For more information, please contact Alison Saylor at asaylor@Connect2amc.com
or Ann Umemoto at aumemoto@marchofdimes.com
Cornell University College of Human Ecology History of Home Economics Fellowship
The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University is accepting applications for the 2010 Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics. We invite faculty members, research scholars, and advanced graduate students with demonstrated background and experience in historical studies to apply. One award of $6,000 is available for a summer or sabbatical residency of six continuous weeks to use the unique resources available from the College and the Cornell University Library system in pursuit of scholarly research in the history of Home Economics and its impact on American society.
Relevant historical subject areas include:
History of food, nutrition, housing, the family, child development, clothing and textiles, and history of women in higher education among other key topics in American social history.
The deadline for receipt of all application materials is March 1, 2010. For additional information, see: http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/Fellowship/index.cfm Please circulate this announcement to interested individuals.
Cindy Thompson (clm37)
Assistant to
Alan Mathios, Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean
Kay Obendorf, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education
Craig Higgins, Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
Cornell University
College of Human Ecology
142 MVR Hall
P: 607-255-2138
F: 607-255-3794
Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer about 30 research fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011, including at least two long-term research fellowships made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society also offers Short-Term Fellowships, and participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. For more information about the Society’s research fellowships please visit our web site, www.masshist.org/fellowships, or contact Conrad E. Wright (fellowships@masshist.org), 617-646-0512.
Application deadlines: MHS-NEH fellowships, January 15, 2010
New England Regional Fellowships, February 1, 2010
MHS Short-Term fellowships, March 1, 2010.
Fellowship Oregon State University
Call for Proposals for a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the History and Philosophy of Science. The Oregon State University Center for the Humanities and the Horning Endowment in the Humanities invite applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in the history and philosophy of science. Scholars not currently employed by OSU who have completed doctorates since January 2005 are eligible for a year-long fellowship in 2010-2011 with a stipend of $40,000. Postdoctoral fellows will be in residence at the Center for Humanities along with other fellows in a variety of humanities disciplines. Applications are welcome from all fields of the history of science, including medicine and technology, as well as the philosophy of science and intellectual history. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2010. See the Center’s website for further information and application forms: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities/
Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities
2010-2011 The Newberry’s fellowships support humanities research in our collections. Our collections are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric. If you study the humanities, chances are good we have something for you. We promise you remarkable collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and an array of scholarly and public programs.
LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS
Long-term fellowships support research and writing by scholars with a doctorate. Fellowship terms range from six to eleven months with stipends of up to $50,400. Deadline: January 11, 2010.
SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS
Ph.D. candidates and scholars with a doctorate are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. Short-term fellowships are usually awarded for a period of one month. Most are restricted to scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Stipends are $1600 per month.
NEW:
We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. $1600 per fellow per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member. Deadline: March 1, 2010.
For more information or to download application materials, visit our website at: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
Or contact:
Research and Education
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312.255.3666
research@newberry.org
Fellowships to support research related to the history of women in medicine
The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine is pleased to offer two fellowships to support research related to the history of women in medicine at the Countway Library's Center for the History of Medicine and its Archives for Women in Medicine.
The Foundation will provide two $2000 grants to support travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible period between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2011. In return, the Foundation requests a one page report and a copy of the final product as well as the ability to post excerpts from the paper/project, as well as a photo and bio of the Fellow on our website www.fhwim.org.
Foundation Fellowships are offered for research related to the history of women in medicine. Preference will be given to projects that deal specifically with women physicians or other health workers or medical scientists, but proposals dealing with the history of women’s health issues may also be considered.
The fellowship proposal should demonstrate that the Countway Library has resources central to the research topic. Preference will also be given to those who are using collections from the Archives for Women in Medicine, but research on the topic of women in medicine using other material from the Countway Library will be considered. Preference will be given to applicants who live beyond commuting distance of the Countway, but all are encouraged to apply, including graduate students.
Applicants should submit a proposal (no more than two pages) outlining the subject and objectives of the research project, length of residence, historical materials to be used, and a project budget (including travel, lodging, and research expenses), along with a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendations by March 1st, 2010. The decision should be made by May 1st, 2010.
Applications should be submitted to:
Foundation Research Fellowships
Archives for Women in Medicine
Center for the History of Medicine
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115
University of Cambridge
Wellcome Strategic Award in the History of Medicine
DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS on ‘GENERATION TO REPRODUCTION’
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/generation/studentships.html
The University invites applications for two doctoral studentships
funded by a Wellcome strategic award in history of medicine
‘Generation’ and ‘reproduction’ are at the heart of medicine. They
involve theories of sex and gender; entities such as seeds, germs,
embryos, monsters and clones; concerns about creation, evolution,
degeneration and regeneration; investments in maternity, paternity
and heredity; practices of fertility control, potency and childbirth;
and health relations between citizen and state, individual and
population. These crossroads for rich traffic to and from biology,
the social sciences and the humanities have been of intense public
and historical interest since the 1970s. Yet for all the excellent
historical work, research tends to be dispersed among sub-disciplines
and periods. The major frameworks are showing their age. Central
topics, such as the recent rise of technologies of assisted
reproduction, have hardly been studied. This award brings together
expertise in every major period, and combines quantitative social and
demographic approaches with more anthropologically oriented histories
of natural philosophy, biology and medicine. We aim for a systematic
reassessment of the field.
Informal inquiries may be made to the award holder with the most
relevant interests
Formal applications should be submitted through the relevant Department or Faculty in the usual way, indicating an interest in one of these studentships. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2010 to be admitted in October 2010. The closing date for online applications is 1 February. However, you will need to apply earlier than this if you wish also to be considered for funding from the Cambridge Trusts, Arts and Humanities Research Council or Cambridge International Scholarships. The earliest of these deadlines, for applicants from the USA applying for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, is 15 October 2009.
We also welcome applications from students wishing to be nominated for the Wellcome Trust’s annual doctoral studentship competition, or for a master’s award to take the MPhil. in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine.
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 for researchers who must travel some distance and pay for temporary housing in the Twin Cities in order to conduct 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 19, 2010
For more details and application guidelines, please contact:
Elizabeth Ihrig, Librarian
The Bakken Library and Museum
3537 Zenith Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN., 55416
612-926-3878 ext. 227
(612) 927-7265
Ihrig@thebakken.org
www.thebakken.org
Northwestern University
Post-Doctorate Fellowship
Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
Fall 2009-2010
The Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine invites applications for a post-doctorate fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Applicants should have a PhD or JD (received within the past three years or expect to be received before September) in any academic field that is relevant to bioethics, medicine studies, or the medical humanities. Fellows are expected to give a series of three lectures, offer tutorials to graduate students, and participate in the life of the program. The stipend for the nine-month period is $42,000 as well as travel and lodging to the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). Applicants should submit a general statement of research interests, curriculum vitae, a representative sample of scholarly work, and the names and addresses of two referees. We will begin evaluating applications at the end of July and will continue to accept applicants until the position is filled.
Contact Tod Chambers,
Suite 625, 750 North Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, IL 60611-2611.
The Wellcome Trust Book Prize
The award will be made on a yearly basis. Submissions will be permissible for any book published between 1 October of one year and 30 September of the next. A short list of six books will then be announced at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in October, and a winner will be announced at a ceremony to be held at Wellcome Collection in early November.
1 October 2008 - Prize open for submissions
31 March 2009 - Closing date for submission forms
30 June 2009 - Closing date for submission of final manuscripts
October 2009 - Short list announced
November 2009 - Winner announced
Eligibility
Submitted books, in English or English translation, must be published by a UK-based publisher during the prize year. Reissues, anthologies and self-published books are not eligible for the prize, and authors must be living at the time of submission.
Any book of fiction or non-fiction will be considered, so long as medicine or biomedical science is central to its theme. This can include a collection of short stories by the same author. Children’s fiction may also be eligible, as long as the book is published by an adult imprint within the specified dates. The final decision as to whether or not a book is eligible for the prize rests with the judges.
Submissions
Submissions will be effected via UK publishers, who will be able to submit a book (or manuscript) via the form above. Each publisher will be allowed to submit three books with scheduled publication dates between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009. The deadline for the return of submission forms is 31 March 2009. Each submission must be accompanied by a completed entry form. Final texts must be submitted by 30 June 2009.
If finished copies are not available by 31 March, bound proofs may be submitted on condition that they are of good quality and that the content reflects that of the final book. If proofs are submitted, final copies should be sent in as soon as they are available. The judging panel will also have the right to call in books that have not been put forward.
Judging criteria
Four judges and one chair will be selected each year. As a group, the judges and chair will decide on a short list of six books (to be announced at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in October); a month later, a winner will be chosen.
University of Limerick,
Department of History
Online MA
(History of Family)
Introduction: The online MA in the History of the Family is a one-year, full time or
two-year part-time postgraduate degree programme. There is no other programme of
this type offered in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
The aims of the programme are: To provide those interested in the History of Family with an opportunity to obtain formal training in the methodologies and concepts of the History of Family To contribute to and support each student’s personal quest for intellectual and moral autonomy
On completion of the programme a successful participant will have:Acquired a knowledge of a range of key issues in the history of political, social and economic development particularly as might be applied to the historians of families and communities its family, community, local and regional context Developed advanced skills in identifying, locating, assessing and interpreting appropriate primary and secondary sources Acquired the skills necessary as a foundation to conduct historical research at doctoral and post-doctoral level Developed the skills necessary to present the results of historical research to publication standard
Programme of study:It will consist of six modules. The modules will run consecutively; three during semester one and two during semester two. Students wishing to attend summer school may take one of the Spring semester modules (People on the move: studying migration) on campus. Students are also invited to UL campus for orientation week. Both on campus experiences are optional. Independent research will form the core of one module in the second semester and the dissertation (20, 000 words) will be completed and submitted at the end of August in year one with a Winter graduation. Students wishing to take the programme on a part-time basis over two years will complete the dissertation in year two of the programme.
Applicants who wish to discuss detailed elements of the programme should contact the
Course Director:
Dr Ciara Breathnach,
tel: 353-61-213166 or
ciara.breathnach@ul.ie
F. C. Wood Institute Short-Term Fellowships
Through its Center for Medical History (the combined Historical Library and the Mutter Museum), now led by Robert Hicks, PhD, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia is pleased to announce the re-launch of the F. C. Wood Institute Short-Term Fellowships. These Fellowships are in the form of short-term travel grants to bona fide researchers who wish to study any component of The College's collections. Note that these grants are not limited to library work: grantees may work with texts, specimens, images, or artifacts. Researchers will likely include scholars, artists, journalists, authors of popular works on medical history, and others. Please alert your colleagues and disseminate to any appropriate audience. Web link: http://www.collphyphil.org/erics/Resfels.htm
Fulbright Scholar Program
Fulbright Scholar Program for US Faculty and Professionals for 2010-2011 is open
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers grants in more than 125 countries around the world. For the Academic Year 2010-2011, Fulbright lists 42 lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research awards in history (non-U.S.), including 4 Distinguished Chairs and the African Regional Research Program. Even better, faculty and professionals in American history also can apply for one of the 144 “All Discipline” awards open to all fields.
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
Grants
Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant, 2010
Historical Library
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its third annual research travel grant for use of the Historical Library. The award honors Ferenc A. Gyorgyey, Historical Librarian emeritus.
The Historical Library holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. It was founded in 1941 by the donations of the extensive collections of Harvey Cushing, John F. Fulton, and Arnold C. Klebs. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and on inoculation and vaccination for smallpox. The Library owns over fifty medieval and renaissance manuscripts, Arabic and Persian manuscripts, and over 300 medical incunabula. The notable Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings has over 2,500 fine prints, drawings, and posters from the 15th century to the present on medical subjects. Although the Historical Library does not house the official archives of the Medical School, it does own a number of manuscript collections, most notably the Peter Parker Collection, papers of Harvey Cushing, and the John Fulton diaries and notebooks. The Historical Library website is http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/
The travel grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers who wish to use the collections of the Historical Library. There is a single award of up to $1500 for one week of research during the academic fiscal year 2010-2011 (July1-June 30). Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food, and photographic reproductions. The award is limited to residents of the United States and Canada.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and a description of the project including the relevance of the collections of the Historical Library to the project, and two references attesting to the particular project. Preference will be given to applicants beyond commuting distance to the Historical Library. This award is not intended for primary use of special collections in other libraries at Yale. An application form can be found at http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/travelaward.html. Applications are due by March 19, 2010. They will be considered by a committee and the candidates will be informed by May 14, 2010.
Ferenc A. Gyorgyey, born in Hungary, emigrated to the United States at the time of the Hungarian Revolution. He received his library degree at Southern Connecticut State University in 1961 and a master’s degree in history from Yale in 1967. Hired by Madeline Stanton as a cataloger in the Historical Library in 1962, he was named Historical Librarian when Miss Stanton retired in 1968. Known for his graciousness, devotion to patrons, a thorough knowledge of the collection, and a remarkable sense of humor, he held this position for 26 years until his retirement in 1994.
Requests for further information should be sent to:
Toby Anita Appel,
John R. Bumstead
Librarian for Medical History
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208014
New Haven, CT 06520-8014
Telephone: (203) 785-4354
Fax: (203) 785-5636
E-mail: toby.appel@yale.edu
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
Barbara Brodie Nursing History Research Fellowship
The University of Virginia School of Nursing Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry’s Barbara Brodie Nursing History Fellowship, a post-doctoral award, is open to doctorally prepared scholars engaged in historical research. Applications for the $3000 award are due October 15th each year, and the recipient will be announced each December. The selected Barbara Brodie Nursing History Fellow is expected to present a paper from the funded project in the Center's History Forum series within two years of receiving the award.
Selection of the fellow will be based on the scholarly quality of the investigator's project including: the clarity of the project's purpose, its rationale and significance, and the ability of the researcher to complete the work.
For more details:
http://w3.nursing.virginia.edu/research/cnhi/fellowship/