Please help the Organization of American Historians assess how budget cuts are influencing historians' research.
The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America
Emma Broder examines controversies about psychological causes of 20th-century outbreaks now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID, and uncovers new opportunities for research in the history of medicine.After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art
Tanya Sheehan uses the collections of the NY Academy of Medicine and the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University to explore the history of artistic depictions of racial inequities in medical care.The Effective Look of Things: A Two-Tier Biography of Clifford Geertz
Matteo Bortolini uses his research for a biography of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz to explore theoretical questions about the historical sociology of ideas, intellectuals, and the social sciences.Paper proposals will be accepted until July 11, 2025.
The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.
Alfredo Escudero analyzes colonial Spanish capture and systematization of indigenous knowledge across the central and Southern Andes.
Greenfield Fellow Al Coppola examines what annotations tell us about the use of eighteenth-century microscopy texts held in Consortium collections.
The grant-in-aid program provides grants of up to $2,500 and applications are due April 15.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the University of Pittsburgh as a new member.
Apply by May 1 for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is now accepting applications for two fellowship opportunities to research its extensive collections. The deadline for submissions is midnight, Sunday, April 27.
The call for papers for "Health History in the Making" are due March 21, 2025.
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