News and Notes
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Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
August 23, 2018
How changing medical technologies helped change Indian families
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By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century
August 9, 2018
The quest of a Philadelphia lawyer and naturalist to assemble the world's largest collection of hair and wool specimens provides a window into the scientific racial theories of the nineteenth century.
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Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
July 26, 2018
How did artist-engineers use new technologies to create a sonic register of the avant-garde?
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Hagley Library Acquires the James W. Cortada Collection of Information Technology Publications
July 26, 2018
This collection consists of an estimated 5,000 titles on the general subject of computers, information technology, society, the internet and the economic and business issues involving computers from the 1940s through 2017.
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American Women in Physics: Their Higher Education and Sites of Practice, 1870-1940
July 11, 2018
New research reveals the presence of a longstanding community of women in physics.
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Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939
June 28, 2018
How has healthcare united far-flung places across the British Empire?
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Characterizing Northern Nature in the Eighteenth Century
June 20, 2018
What does the Arctic reveal about the intersection of science and imperialism?
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May 2018 Newsletter
June 13, 2018
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.
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Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941
June 7, 2018
In the early twentieth century, Anglo-American collaborations in science and philanthropy brought about new standardized understandings of nutrition.
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Apply for 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship on Kinship at the Wolf Center for the Humanities
May 24, 2018
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