The Adler Planetarium is pleased to announce that the Webster Photographs Collection is now available for research.
The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, at Yale University, seeks a person with interest and expertise in Economics and History for a postdoctoral position. The appointment will begin in July of 2018 and continue until June of 2019. The primary duties of the postdoctoral associate will be to research and write a history of the Cowles Foundation and its relationship to the discipline of Economics. In doing so, the researcher will draw upon published materials, the Cowles archives, and archival materials at other locations.
"Grappling with the Futures" will begin an interdisciplinary dialogue that interrogates the goals, concepts, and methods of futures studies and probes informal futures-oriented thinking that is ubiquitous in social thought and practice. Abstracts due November 3.
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 project on the history of women and science at Bryn Mawr.
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.
The Linda Hall Library invites pre-and post-doctoral scholars of exceptional promise to apply for its 2018/19 fellowships in the history of science and related areas of science and technology studies. The Library offers researchers a setting that allows for deep immersion in its outstanding collections and a rich intellectual community of in-house experts, fellows, and scholars from nearby Kansas City institutions. Please click here to learn more about Linda Hall's collections.
George Aumoithe, Columbia University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow
In commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society’s founding in 1743 and the birth of its long-time President, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, APS 1780, President 1797-1814), the APS Library, along with the National Constitution Center and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, are organizing a daylong symposium that aims to explore the history of science, knowledge production, and learning during the Age of Jefferson (1743-1826).
Joseph Martin, National Science Foundation Research Scholar
2017 to 2018 Fellow in Residence
Congratulations to Abraham Gibson (2014-2015 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow), who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Abe's project, "Understanding Biological and Social Intersections around Ideas of Cooperation, 1919-1939," examines the various ways that biologists studied concepts such as cooperation, emergence, organicism, individuality, and holism.
