Ferenc Gyorgyey travel grant for research at Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Historical Library
Looking
for funds to research at Yale's Medical Historical Library? The Medical
Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical
Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its twelfth annual Ferenc
Gyorgyey Research Travel Award.
The
Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds
one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books,
journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. Special strengths
are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper,
Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anatomy, anesthesia, and
smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over fifty
medieval and renaissance manuscripts, Arabic and
Persian manuscripts, and over 300 medical incunabula. The notable
Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings has over 2,500 fine
prints, drawings, and posters from the 15th century to the present on
medical subjects. The larger Prints, Posters and
Drawings collection contains over 7,000 additional images, some related
to international public health, protest and activism and social
justice. The Library also owns an extensive Smoking and tobacco
advertising collection, the Robert Bogdan collection of
Disability photographs and postcards, medical imagery from popular
publications donated by Bert Hansen, and smaller collections of patent
medicine ephemera from noted collector William Helfand.
The
2019-2020 travel grant is available to historians, medical
practitioners, and other researchers who wish to use the collections of
the Medical
Historical Library. There is a single award of up to $1,500
for one week of research during the academic fiscal year July 1, 2019 -
June 30, 2020. Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food,
and photographic reproductions. The award is
limited to residents of the United States and Canada. Applicants will
need to apply
through our fellowship site, and upload a curriculum vitae
and project description, including the relevance of the Medical
Historical Library collections to the project, as well as provide two
references attesting to the particular project. Preference
will be given to applicants beyond commuting distance to the Medical
Historical Library. This award is for use of Medical Historical special
collections and is not intended for primary use of special collections
in other libraries at Yale. Applications
are due by Monday, APRIL 29TH, 2019. They will be considered by a
committee and the candidates will be informed by early June 2019.
Winners may be asked to do a blog post discussing their research.
The application period is now open! Please apply
online by April 29th, 2019.
Requests for further information should be sent to:
Melissa Grafe, Ph.D
Head of the Medical Historical Library and John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
E-mail: melissa.grafe@yale.edu
Additional information about the Library and its collections may be found at: https://library.medicine.