Due in TWO WEEKS: Applications for 2018-19 Beckman Center Fellowshipsin the History of Chemistry
The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), an independent
research library in Philadelphia, PA, invites applications
for new multi-year postdoctoral fellowships, as well as for
one-year and short-term visiting fellowships in the history
of science, medicine, technology, and industry.
Two-Year
80/20 Postdoctoral Fellowships:
CHF is pleased
to announce the launch of its new 80/20 postdoctoral
fellowship program: these new fellowships reflect the Beckman
Center’s commitment to providing career-launching fellowships
for recent PhDs and its support for the career diversity
initiatives of the American Historical Association and
affiliated scholarly societies. The 80/20 postdoctoral
fellowship program will allow the Beckman Center’s postdocs to
build skills that can enhance their opportunities outside the
academy or their work within it. Fellows will spend one day a
week working closely with a CHF staff member from the library,
museum, publications team, Center for Applied History,
outreach group, Oral History Program, archives, or digital
library team on developing skills in one of two areas:
collections and curation, or outreach and exhibitions. The
other four days each week, postdoctoral fellows will have
access to CHF’s considerable resources and ample time to
develop and publish their own research. Applicants for
postdoctoral fellowships must have their PhD in hand before
the July prior to the start of the fellowship and must have
earned that degree within the last five years. Postdoctoral
fellowship stipends are $45,000, paid in monthly installments.
For more information or to apply, go to: https://www.chemheritage.org/
Visiting Research Fellowships:
Short Term and Dissertation Fellows take part
in the activities of a class of roughly 18 fellows each
year, creating a vibrant international community of scholars
whose work is in some way tied to CHF’s collections (see
below) in the history of the life sciences, chemistry, and
related sciences. Applications come from scholars in a wide
range of disciplines across the humanities and social
sciences. To see this year's list, go to:
Dissertation Fellowships
9 Months in Residence; open to graduate
students at the dissertation stage • $26,000
Short-Term Fellowships
1–4 Months in Residence; open to all scholars
and researchers • $3,000 per month
Collection Strengths:
The research collections at CHF range
chronologically from the fifteenth century to the present
and include 6,000 rare books, significant archival holdings,
thousands of images, and a large artifact and fine arts
collection, supported by over 100,000 reference volumes and
journals. Within the collections there are many areas of
special strength, including: alchemy, mining &
metallurgy, dyeing and bleaching, balneology, gunpowder and
pyrotechnics, gas-lighting, books of secrets, inorganic and
organic chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, and
pharmaceuticals.
The deadline for all fellowship applications
is January 16, 2018. Please see our website for more
information or to apply: www.chemheritage.org/