Research Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Please forward to anyone who might be interested in applying for our 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.