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Apply for 2019-2020 Consortium Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed. Opportunities include:
Forum

Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America

How has medical consumerism contributed to the challenges of our current healthcare system, including the opioid epidemic? Watch video presentations by leading historians, read other scholars' expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
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October 2018 Newsletter

In the October 2018 Newsletter: Caltech joins Consortium. New fellowship program and funding. New fellows for 2018-19. Application open for 2019-20 fellowships.

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Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

At the turn of the twentieth century, zoological parks became wildly popular in the United States. The rise of the American zoo brought with it a rise in popular zoology, with wide-ranging consequences for for science, technology and medicine.
Phonographs, Flying Machines, and the Animality of Modernity

Daniel Vandersommers, Assistant Professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University, and former Consortium NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, will deliver a public talk on the role of zoos as sites for scientific research and education.
“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

New research points to an opiate addiction epidemic from the nineteenth century.
Linda Hall Library 2019-2020 Fellowships

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2019-20 fellowship program.
Fall 2018 Fellows Update

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”

June 6-7, 2019
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
California Institute of Technology Joins Consortium

The Consortium is delighted to welcome the California Institute of Technology as its newest member.
Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America

In the nineteenth century, phrenology transformed the relationship between scientists and the public.

January 10, 2019

Laura Puaca (Christopher Newport University)

Domesticating Disability: The Creation of Assistive Devices for Disabled Homemakers in the Post-WWII U.S.

Hagley Museum and Library
January 28, 2019

Jeffrey Baker, Elena Conis and Erica Kimmerling

Trust in Science: Vaccines

The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Forum at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society
February 6, 2019

Remembering the Dead

New York Academy of Medicine, Museum of the City of New York and the Wellcome Trust
February 7, 2019

TBA

Harvard University History of Science Seminars: TBA

Harvard University
February 21, 2019

Kimberly TallBear (University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada)

Harvard University History of Science Seminars: Kimberly TallBear

Harvard University
March 7, 2019

Erica Milam (Princeton University)

Harvard University History of Science Seminars: Erica Milam

Harvard University
March 7, 2019

Hasia Diner (New York University)

Julius Rosenwald: From Sears Executive to Passionate Philanthropist

Hagley Museum and Library
April 10, 2019

ASEH Annual Meeting

American Society for Environmental History
April 11, 2019

Suman Seth (Cornell University)

Harvard University History of Science Seminars: Suman Seth

Harvard University
April 25, 2019

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society