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Consortium Receives Mellon Foundation Grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a three-year grant to the Consortium to support dissertation and research fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine as well as public outreach providing historical perspectives on contemporary issues.
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Medical Modernity: Rethinking U.S. Colonial Practices in the Philippines and the Health Work of Non-elite Women (1870-1948)

Christine Peralta is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Illinois. She is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.
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June 2017 Newsletter

The June Newsletter welcomes the Adler Planetarium and SHOT as well as 2017-18 fellows to the Consortium. It also has updates on working groups, events and other activities.

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Abraham Gibson Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Abraham Gibson (2014-2015 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow), who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany

Tricia Ross is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Duke University. She is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.
CFP: Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia

The application deadline for Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia is July 15, 2017.
Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755

Louis Gerdelan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University. He is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.
David Ceccarelli Completes Ph.D. at University of Rome Tor Vergata

Congratulations to David Ceccarelli (2015-2016 Research Fellow), who recently completed his Ph.D. in Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences at University of Rome Tor Vergata.

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Upcoming Events

July 26, 2017

Mayci Shimon, Independence Seaport Museum

Curious Evenings: Dissection

American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA)
August 22, 2017

Randi Hutter Epstein, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
September 13, 2017

Faye Wattleton, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

On the Front Lines of Reproductive Rights

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
September 14, 2017

Patricia D’Antonio, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania

Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstrations in New York City

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
September 14, 2017

Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University

Making "Muzak" Natural: The Sounds of Life, Death, and the Lyre Bird in the Built Environment, 1950-1970

Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE)
September 28, 2017

Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania

The Great War and Modern Veteran Care

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
October 10, 2017

Susan Lamb, University of Ottawa

Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Founding Father: Adolf Meyer

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
October 12, 2017

Dava Sobel

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Linda Hall Library
October 22, 2017

Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia

Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
October 26, 2017

SHOT Annual Meeting

Society for the History of Technology

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