Research Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Research fellowship at UAB.  Recipients must travel to UAB to use materials housed in the UAB Archives, the Reynolds-Finley Historical Library, and/or the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences.

Past recipients include students, faculty, private researchers, artists, etc.  Research topics of past fellows include:
Ø hospital desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement
Ø creating a portfolio of conditions from medical teaching models
Ø review of Medieval manuscripts
Ø medicine and healthcare during the American Civil War
Ø midwifery in the Jim Crow South
Ø industrial toxins and public health in the urban areas of Alabama

UAB’s Reynolds-Finley Research Fellowships in the History of the Health Sciences for 2019

The Reynolds-Finley Associates, in conjunction with the Historical Collections (HC) unit of the UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), are pleased to announce the availability of short-term awards of up to $2,500 to individual researchers studying one or more aspects of the history of the health sciences during the 2019 calendar year. Intended to support research using the HC unit as a historical resource, the fellowship requires the on-site use of at least one of the unit’s three components, which are the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, Reynolds-Finley Historical Library and UAB Archives.

All application materials must be submitted by January 31, 2019 to receive consideration.