The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is now accepting applications for their 2024-2025 research travel grant program.

More information here: https://duke.is/rltg-2024 

Research travel grants of up to $1500 are offered by the following Centers and research areas:

The Program in the History of Medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in partnership with The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, announces a search for one post-doctoral fellow for a two-year appointment in the Program in the History of Medicine.

The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute is now accepting applications for our 2024–2025 fellowships. Scholars from any field whose research would benefit from the use of their collections are invited to apply for one of their programs by January 15, 2024.

The Institute offers dissertation, distinguished, short-term, and postdoctoral fellowships, including their new National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) postdoctoral fellowship.

The University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library is pleased to announce the availability of three travel grants to facilitate research and use of the library’s collections. The amount available for each award is $1,500.

University of Sydney Fisher Library has acquired a first edition of On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius.

The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation seeks a Director to serve as the champion for the power of invention and innovation and to lead the Center’s pathbreaking educational and engagement efforts.

Read about Gina Surita's research into the history of molecular biology and the influence of metaphors of "economy" on our understanding of cellular functions.

Read about Charis Boke's work on plant humanities, medical knowledge and interspecies relationships.

Applications are due November 27, 2023.

Cedars-Sinai Emergency Department during the LA Riots 1992
Cedars-Sinai Emergency Department during the LA Riots 1992. Courtesy of Cedars-Sinai Historical Conservancy Collection