News and Notes
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The Consortium Welcomes New Member Institutions!
October 2, 2015
We welcome today five new member institutions. The Consortium, which was founded by 11 Philadelphia institutions in 2007, now has 24 members from across the United States and Canada.
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2015-2016 Working Groups
September 22, 2015
The Consortium invites scholars to participate in topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of works-in-progress and important publications.
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Gathering the Animals: Natural History in America to 1815
September 16, 2015
Whitney Barlow Robles is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. In summer 2015, she was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.
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Fellowship Selection Process
August 13, 2015
The Consortium has awarded 100 research, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships
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Treating the Black Body: Race and Medicine in American Culture, 1800-1861
July 30, 2015
Chris Willoughby is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Tulane University. In 2014-2015 he was a Research Fellow of the Consortium.
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Revolutions in the Atmosphere: Benjamin Rush’s Universal System of Medicine
July 21, 2015
Sarah Naramore is a PhD student in the History and Philosophy of Science Program at the University of Notre Dame.
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Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861
June 30, 2015
Nicole Belolan is a Ph.D. candidate in History of American Civilization at the University of Delaware.
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U.S. Biological Nativism and Japanese Invasions: Constituting Race through Transnational Public Health and Agriculture, 1880-1950
June 25, 2015
Jeannie N. Shinozuka is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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June 2015 Newsletter
June 8, 2015
Updates about the Consortium are available in our newsletter, including news about fellowships, events and members' collections.
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Working Groups at the Consortium, 2014-2015
May 28, 2015
Working Groups Program: Overview