Dissertation-to-Book Career Development Award, 20th c. Medicine/Biomedical Sciences (Deadline: Dec 31, 2011)

Deadline, Dec 31, 2011 -- Career Development Award, 20th Century History of Medicine or Biomedical Sciences, for turning the dissertation into a publishable monograph

Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in 20th Century History of Medicine or Biomedical Sciences

This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997.

The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical biomedical sciences, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph. The Ph.D. must have been completed and the degree granted within the last five years (i.e., 2007-2011). The application must include a curriculum vitae, the dissertation abstract, a one-page summary of the proposed book; a description (not exceeding two pages) of the work to be undertaken for publication; and two letters of support from faculty members knowledgeable about the applicant's dissertation.

The Award will be presented at the 2012 meeting of the Association, to be held Thursday, April 26 - Sunday, April 29, 2012, in Baltimore, Maryland.

The application, including all supporting materials, must be postmarked

by 31 December 2011 and addressed to the Chair of the Pressman-Burroughs

Wellcome Committee, Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., Department of History,

Princeton University, 136 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1029;

e-mail: kwailoo@princeton.edu<mailto:kwailoo@princeton.edu>. More

information may be obtained from the AAHM Web site

(www.histmed.org<http://www.histmed.org/www.histmed.org>) or from the

Committee Chair.

Keith Wailoo

Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs

Department of History

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Princeton University