2014-2015 Fellowships at Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
Fellowships Available for the 2014-2015 Academic Year
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
invites applications for short-term Research Fellowships and nine-month
Dissertation Writing Fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine,
broadly construed. The Center offers a vibrant, challenging and collegial
community. Our fellows participate in many public and scholarly events, as well
as informal reading and writing groups, held at the Center and throughout the
region.
The Center is a consortium of educational and cultural
institutions promoting academic and public understanding of the history of
science, technology and medicine. Consortium institutions offer rich
opportunities for research, with a combined total of more than 17 million
scientific specimens, 20 million manuscript items, 2.5 million images, and rare
books dating back to the 15th century.
Look on our website at www.pachs.net
for further information, an online application form and a list of current and
past fellows. The website also features: information about the fellowship
programs of member institutions; descriptions of the distinctive collections in
the museums, archives, and libraries of the consortium; and a consortium-wide
search hub for rare books and manuscripts.
Applications for 2014-2015 must be submitted online by
January 8, 2014.
Applicants must submit: a Curriculum Vitae limited to two
pages; an abstract limited to 150 words; and a project proposal, limited to
1,500 words, describing the research project and how it will advance
scholarship in the history of science, technology or medicine. In addition,
each applicant must ask two recognized scholars to submit letters of support
through the same web site by January 15, 2014.
The Center’s consortium includes Johns Hopkins
University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel
University, the American Philosophical Society, the Chemical Heritage
Foundation, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute,
the Hagley Museum and Library, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the
Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science. For descriptions and links to consortium
members’ collections, see http://www.pachs.net/about/members.
Babak Ashrafi
Philadelphia
Area Center for History of Science
431 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-2426
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