Martha Groppo, Princeton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Emelin Miller, University of Minnesota
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Learn about our latest updates in the May 2018 Consortium Newsletter. In this issue, you can find: new fellowship opportunities; profiles of incomming fellows; updates on our working groups; public events programming; news from our fellows; collections spotlight on the Adler Planetarium; information on newly aquired or processed archival collections.

Alma Igra, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities on the general theme of Kinship. Application Deadline: October 15, 2018

The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JAS Med) will take place October 5-6, 2018, at Yale University. The meeting is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. Proposals are due June 15, 2018.

Ford Foundation records, Rights and Social Justice Program, AIDS Initiative provides important information on early attempts to address the AIDS epidemic.

In partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Hagley Museum and Library is exhibiting dozens of nineteenth-century patent models in four Chinese cities.

Yuan Yi, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

The 2018 Artefacts meeting will be held October 14-16 at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. This year's theme is "Relevance of Collections." Proposals are due July 20.

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“Aspidoceras, Creniceras, Perisphinctes” Lantern slide used to illustrated a lecture on Historical Geography delivered by William Berryman Scott in 1894 at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. Image courtesy of the Wagner Free Institute of Science.