Santorio Award for Excellence in Research
The
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR)
and Fondazione Comel- Institutio Santoriana are happy to announce the international scheme Santorio Award for Excellence in Research.
The award is designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the
history of medicine and science with a focus on European and the Western traditions (widely construed, including
interactions with, and borrowings from, other
cultures/traditions/practices around the Mediterranean, especially
Arabic and Hebrew) throughout the period 1100-1800.
It is named after the Italian physician and philosopher Santorio
Santori (1561-1636), who is considered the father of quantitative experimental physiology.
Nature of the Award
The award consists of a cash prize (for the first position) plus a
medal and a publication for the two first selected works with the series
Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (editors: J. Barry and F. Bigotti).
1st Place: € 1.500 + medal + publication
2nd Place: medal + publication
Publication is agreed separately by the editors of the series upon the whole work passing the double peer-review process.
Eligibility
The award is open to PhD students and early career scholars of all
nationalities within six years from their viva (not prior to 1st June
2013).
Application Process
Applicants should send a cover letter with the index of their thesis plus a significant chapter of it to
csmbr@fondazionecomel.org.
Closing date for Application:
25 February 2020 with successful applicants notified in early May.
Ceremony Award
Successful applicants will receive their award during the last day of the
2020 CSMBR conference, whose date will be communicated later this year, and invited to present a paper on their thesis.
For further information please contact
csmbr@fondazionecomel.org or visit csmbr.fondazionecomel.