News and Notes
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Jessica Linker Begins Bryn Mawr Postdoc on History of Women and Science
August 16, 2017
Congratulations to Jessica Linker (2013-2014 Research Fellow), who has been named CLIR Humanities & Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at Bryn Mawr College, where she will craft a digital
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Private Aid, Political Activism: American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936-1949
August 16, 2017
A new book by Aelwen Wetherby (2011-2012 Research Fellow) examines the history of medicine, U.S. foreign relations, and humanitarianism in the mid-twentieth century.
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Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare in the United States, 1965-2000
August 9, 2017
The 1970s economic crisis had a lasting impact on responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise
July 26, 2017
During the early Cold War, industry and universities often collaborated--to both advance science and protect academic freedom.
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Abraham Gibson Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
July 19, 2017
Congratulations to Abraham Gibson (2014-2015 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow), who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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Consortium Receives Mellon Foundation Grant
July 18, 2017
The Consortium is grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its continued support.
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Medical Modernity: Rethinking U.S. Colonial Practices in the Philippines and the Health Work of Non-elite Women (1870-1948)
July 13, 2017
In the early twentieth century, Filipino health practitioners played a significant role in shaping U.S. empire and medical knowledge.
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Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany
July 7, 2017
Finding connections between early modern conceptions of disease and natural history.
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CFP: Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia
July 6, 2017
The application deadline for Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia is July 15, 2017.
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Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755
June 21, 2017
Act of God or nature? In the early modern era, people thought disasters were both.