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Directions for Applicants The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is offering an award of up to $2,000 to a faculty member to support historical research in nursing. Selection of faculty scholars will be based on evidence of preparation and/or productivity in historical research and/or teaching related to nursing. It is expected that the research and new materials produced by Buhler-Wilkerson scholars will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing. Recipients will participate in Center activities and will present their research at a Center seminar. Deadline for submission of applications:   December 31, 2010 Date of awards:   March 31, 2011 Application The application should be sent via e-mail to Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN ( wallbm@nursing.upenn.edu >). Three typed copies of the proposal should be sent to the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Penn...

The  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department II; Director: Prof. Lorraine Daston) seeks an outstanding  junior scholar for a  two-year position (to begin no later than 1 September 2011) as Research Fellow in conjunction with the research project Comparative History and Theory of Textual Practices, organized by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Professor Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Pisa/University of Chicago)(details concerning the project may be found at http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptII_GraftonMost_Canonial/index_html ). Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of the human sciences, history of science or related field at the time the position begins and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications or other achievements. A previous postdoctoral position is desirable but not essential. Research projects may concern any culture or historical period (including the ...

Purpose: The Travel Fellowship in the History of the Academic Health Center & Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota is intended to promote research on post-World War II developments in academic health centers and health science research using the University of Minnesota Archives.   The University of Minnesota Program in the History of Medicine in conjunction with the Academic Health Center History Project ( http://z.umn.edu/ahcarchives ) will offer up to two fellowships per year to interested scholars whose research is well suited to the health science and administrative collections in the University Archives. Where possible, preference will be given to early career scholars: graduate students in the research stage of their dissertation and recent Ph.D.s. University of Minnesota Archives Holdings: The University of Minnesota Archives http://special.lib.umn.edu/uarch/ house numerous collections related to the history of the Academic Health Center (AHC), its fore...

Conserveries Memorielles*, an on-line interdisciplinary journal,* *invites to submit articles for a special issue about the various interactions which take place between space and human being when moving. Precisely, we would like to point out what’s remembered from journeys using any kind of transportation and how being in motion – by foot or by a mean of transportation – affects our perception of time and space.   This special issue is edited by Etienne Faugier (Ph. D. student at Laval & Lyon 2 Lumiere Universities) and Arnaud Passalacqua (assistant professor in contemporary history, Paris Diderot – Paris 7 University).   A complete version of the call for papers is available at * http://cm.revues.org/774* .   If you have any questions or would like to discuss a submission, please contact *mobilityspacetime@gmail.com* . Mobilite, espace et temps : quelle memoire pour la *realite augmentee* ?   *Conserveries Memoriell...