Call for Papers

Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference
Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

The Laureate Centre for History & Population is a 5-year Australian Research Council-funded research centre directed by Scientia Professor Alison Bashford, based at UNSW Sydney. We are seeking three (3) Laureate Postdoctoral Fellows to undertake independent and collaborative research on aspects of the modern (post 1800) history of population policy. This may include the intellectual […]

The Department of American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Department of American Studies, effective July 1, 2024, with an affiliation […]

The Waring Historical Library is excited to announce the 2024 W. Curtis Worthington, Jr. Essay Contest—an opportunity for students to contribute to the scholarship of the history of health sciences. This contest, supported by the Waring Library Society, is dedicated to recognizing exceptional work that expands our understanding of the history of health sciences. The […]

The Department of Social Studies of Medicine (SSoM) invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on the contemporary medical museum. This timely theme marks a new administrative link between of McGill University’s Maude Abbott Medical Museum to the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. We invite applications on the history and anthropology of pathological and anatomical collections; the […]

For the third time since the founding of ALHHS in 1976, Kansas City is delighted to host the LAMPHHS annual meeting on May 8-9, 2024. For full details, see the 2024 Annual Meeting page here. The AAHM Annual Meeting will be taking place from May 9-12, 2024. Call for Proposals: Getting it Done: Real World Problem Solving in Museums, […]

The ERC project “FEVER – Global Histories of (a) Disease”, based at the Department of History, University of Heidelberg, is now recruiting a doctoral researcher. This five-year project studies the prevalence of fever in the Atlantic World from 1750 and 1840, explores the rich sensory experiences, practical dynamics, and theoretical controversies pertinent to the disease. […]

The Medical Center Archives of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine is excited to launch the new David J. Wolf, MD Visiting Research Scholar Program, which supports research using the onsite collections in the Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. The David J. Wolf, MD Visiting Research Scholar will receive up to a $5,000 stipend to […]

The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its fifteenth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant for use of the library’s collections. The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, […]

The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its second annual Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical Photographic History, which supports the study of the history of medical photography at Yale, maximizing the research potential of the Stanley B. Burns, MD, […]