Support for Research at The Bakken Library and Museum
RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT and VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Application deadline: March 9th, 2015
The
Bakken (Minneapolis, MN) awards short-term fellowships and travel grants to
scholars and artists to support research using The Bakken’s library and
artifact collections. The collections address the history of electricity and
magnetism (with a focus on their roles in the life sciences and medicine) and
include approximately 11,000 books, journals, and manuscripts, and 2,200
instruments, medical devices, and other artifacts. 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 and pay for
temporary lodging 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 interested in
collaborating informally for a day or two with Bakken staff during their visit.
Research travel grants are awarded up to a maximum of $500 (domestic) and $750
(foreign); the minimum period of residence is one week. Applications are due
March 9th, 2015 and travel must be completed by December 1st, 2015.
The library collection includes works in early physics
(natural philosophy) and early works on magnetic cures, electrotherapeutics,
electrophysiology, and their accompanying instrumentation. The Bakken Library
also possesses a fine collection of primary sources in mesmerism, animal
magnetism, and hypnotism, and works documenting the history of para-psychology,
psychical research, and phrenology. Significant holdings include many of the
writings of Hauksbee, Nollet, Franklin, Mesmer, Galvani, Volta, Matteucci, Du
Bois-Reymond, Marey, and Einthoven. Also of interest to researchers are small
collections of 19th-century medical and electro-medical ephemera, trade
catalogues and price lists, and miscellaneous scientists' letters from the
18th-20th centuries.
The artifact collection comprises objects from the
18th century to the present, including electrostatic generators by George
Adams, Edward Nairne, John Cuthbertson and others; magneto-electric generators;
medical stimulators designed by Duchenne; induction coils; physiological instrumentation
by E.J. Marey; recording devices; cardiac pacing devices; and accessories.
Unorthodox devices are well-represented and include electric belts and
hairbrushes, magnetic applicators, and radionics equipment.
For additional information visit www.thebakken.org/research.
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Juliet Burba, PhD,
Chief Curator
The Bakken Museum
3537 Zenith Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Phone: 612.926-3878, ext. 217
Fax: 612.927.7265
The Bakken Museum
3537 Zenith Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Phone: 612.926-3878, ext. 217
Fax: 612.927.7265