The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant for Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions to the Center, supporting our postdoctoral fellowship program. This is in addition to the Challenge Grant that we were awarded in December 2013.
Kathleen Brian, George Washington University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
Jessica Linker, University of Connecticut
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science has been awarded a $500,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an endowment for its fellowship program. Requiring a 3:1 match, the resulting $2 million will be the first endowment fund established by the Center, and will provide a secure funding base for research, dissertation writing, and postdoctoral fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine. The NEH Challenge Grant to the Center is one of three awarded within the state of Pennsylvania.
The Center proudly announces the publication of North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration, edited by Susan A. Kaplan and Robert McCracken Peck by the American Philosophical Society (Lightning Rod Press, volume 8, 2013). This is the first book that has resulted from a conference jointly hosted by the Center. This conference was cosponsored with The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, The American Philosophical Society and The Peary-MacMilan Artic Museum and Artic Studies Center (Bowdoin College).
Donald Opitz, DePaul University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow
The Center relies on its individual and institutional partners for financial, intellectual and strategic support. We invite you to add your name to the list of supporters who are helping build the Center.
The Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology will hold its 49th meeting on April 4-5, 2014, at the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Center's newsletter has updates on the fellowship program, public and academic events, collections of consortium partners and transitions at the Center.
The Center offers short term Research Fellowships, nine-month Dissertation Writing Fellowships and a Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars in the history of science, technology and medicine. More information and online application here.
