Society for Neuroscience Research Fellowship at UCLA
Society for Neuroscience Research Fellowship at UCLA.
One-year fellowship, with a possible 2nd-year extension supported by the
Department of Neurobiology, to research and write history of the Society for
Neuroscience (founded 1969) and its role in the development of the field of
neuroscience in the late 20th century. Fellow will be expected to research and
write a publishable historical essay within one year on the early history of
the society, with likely opportunities to develop other publications, to help
design and write content for a website and to assist in grant writing.
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is the foremost
scientific organization dedicated to the study and promotion of Neuroscience.
Since its creation in 1969, the SfN and its members have played a major role in
shaping our scientific and cultural knowledge of how the brain and nervous
system work, in forging a disciplinary identity for the neurosciences, and in
helping to promote effective national neuroscience policy. Documenting and
preserving the early history of the SfN is important in its own right, but of
tremendous contemporary scientific and scholarly value as well. As neuroscience
becomes increasingly important to fields that traditionally have eschewed
methods of natural science (e.g. economics, philosophy), understanding the ways
in which the SfN forged neuroscience into one of the most important
intellectual pursuits of the twenty-first century can provide important
insights into how the discipline will shape knowledge policy and lives in the
future. This is a history that is yet to be told.
This is a unique opportunity to help write this important
history. The research fellow will work closely with the SfN staff and
leadership and with the interdisciplinary social studies of medicine team at
UCLA headed by Dr. Joel Braslow. PhD-level training in history of science and
medicine required. Interested applicants should submit CV and writing sample to
Dr. Braslow at jbraslow@mednet.ucla.edu
and request two letters of recommendation to be sent separately by December 1.
UCLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Marcia Meldrum, PHD
UCLA Center for Health Services and Society mlynnmel@gmail.com mlynnmel@earthlink.net meldrum@history.ucla.edu