News and Notes
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Faculty position in History of Modern Life Sciences
July 25, 2019
The Department of the History of Science and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the position of tenure-track assistant professor in the history of the modern life s
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CFP: New Working Groups
July 24, 2019
Propose a new online working group to study a specialized topic in the history of science, technology or medicine.
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"The People who Need Us Read Between the Lines": Eugenic Ideology in the Post WWII United States
July 17, 2019
How eugenics became "population genetics," and maintained influence into the late twentieth century
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CFP: Working Groups Papers
July 11, 2019
Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
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CFP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
July 3, 2019
Submissions are due July 15, 2019.
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Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic
June 27, 2019
Research on the cultural context of the relationship between ideas about climate and race offers new insight into debates over slavery and the development of scientific racism.
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Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851-1981
June 18, 2019
Environmental disasters reveal the enduring legacies of settler colonialism and conquest.
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June 2019 Newsletter
June 12, 2019
In the June 2019 Newsletter: updates on new public events series; JHU joins Consortium; Fellows for 2019-20; updates on past fe
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Carol Greider Manuscripts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
June 11, 2019
Nobel laureate Carol Greider has donated extensive materials documenting her research in molecular biology to the archive at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a Consortium member institution on
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RAC Named Repository for William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Records
May 20, 2019
The collection documents the founding and early history of one the largest grant-giving foundations in the United States.