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Our annual supporters make the work of the Consortium possible each year. All contributions, at any level, help to promote excellence in scholarship, and to inform and elevate public discussion of historical and contemporary issues in science, technology and medicine.
If you have given in the past, please renew your support. If you have not given before, please make a contribution now.
Thank you for making our work possible.
Babak Ashrafi
Executive Director
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Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Charitable Organizations as the "Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science" and also operating under the name "Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine."
Why support the Consortium
Projit Bihari Mukharji
Head of Department, Professor of History, Ashoka University
Co-editor of Osiris, Associate Editor of Asian Medicine, Book Reviews Editor of Isis
June, 2024
The Consortium is an enormous boon for those of us working as historians of science outside the small number of elite North American programs....read more
Ayah Nuriddin
Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows
Lecturer, Council of the Humanities and African American Studies
Princeton University
November, 2023
It was invaluable to do research within a community of scholars doing incredible work, and to talk through the research process with them as we developed our projects....read more
Yovanna Pineda
Associate Professor of Latin American History
University of Central Florida, Orlando
November, 2023
The Consortium has been a blessing for our research team, allowing us to meet new scholars, share ideas, and present our work....read more
Jeff Pooley
Professor of Media and Communication
Muhlenberg College
June, 2023
The Consortium, for me and my peers, is an indispensable agora, a space of scholarly exchange that spans the globe....read more
Linda Ehrsam Voigts
Curators' Professor of English Emerita
University of Missouri-Kansas City
June, 2023
The Consortium performs an invaluable service to scholarship in the history of medicine....read more
Fa-ti Fan
Binghamton University
President, History of Science Society
December, 2022
For the history of science community, the Consortium is like a neighborhood café where we gather around tables to read, think, chat, and share ideas. Over the years, I have hopped from table to table, partaken in conversations, greeted old friends, met new visitors — and have come away feeling excited about what I learned.
Michelle Frank
M.A. Student, Biography and Memoir Program
CUNY Graduate Center
November, 2022
The Research Fellowship deepened my scholarship and opened doors; it gave me unparalleled access to archives, and it led to invitations to share my work with a growing international audience....read more
Rosanna Dent
Assistant Professor, Federated History Department
New Jersey Institute of Technology-Rutgers Newark
December, 2021
The Consortium fosters connections between scholars that are transformational....read more
Dominik Wujastyk
Professor and Singhmar Chair of Classical Indian Society and Polity
Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
December, 2021
The Consortium enables my collaborators and me to bring together an international audience of over seventy scholars who share an interest in the history of science in early India. This is a specialist area that would be almost impossible to bring together in any other way....read more
John Tresch
Warburg Institute, University of London
December, 2020
The Consortium is an incredible asset for scholars working in history of science, technology and medicine. There's nothing like it anywhere...read more
Katherine Reinhart
2019-20 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
December, 2020
I knew my time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Consortium would be fruitful for my research ... but I did not anticipate the many other benefits from my time there...read more
Michelle Smiley
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr
Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow
December, 2019
my time as a fellow was a rare opportunity to make connections from outside my field to create a fuller and more complex context for my work ...read more
Frederick Davis
Professor and Head
R. Mark Lubbers Chair in the History of Science
Department of History, Purdue University
Co-convenor of the Consortium Working Group on History of Earth and Environmental Sciences
December, 2019
Over the past decade, the Consortium has emerged as one of the leading international centers for the history of science, technology, and medicine ...read more
Kathryn M Olesko
Associate Professor
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
June, 2019
a perfect place to discuss the latest developments in the field ...read more
Daniel Vandersommers
Assistant Teaching Professor of History
Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities
Former NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
June, 2019
The Consortium is a one-of-a-kind place that brings together both people and ideas. ...read more
John Krige
Kranzberg Professor
School of History and Sociology
Georgia Institute of Technology
President, Society for the History of Technology
November, 2017
The Consortium is an extraordinary resource linking scholars all over the world who are engaged in the history of science, technology and medicine....read more
Carolyn Roberts
Department of History
Department of African American Studies
School of Medicine
Yale University
Former Dissertation Fellow
November, 2017
my time at the Consortium was transformative...read more
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Professor, History of Science Departments of Biology and History
University of Florida
December, 2015
The Consortium's community has helped fill a void by enabling me to interact with both junior and senior scholars, all over the world...read more
James Poskett
Darwin College
University of Cambridge
Former Research Fellow
December, 2015
Writing a transatlantic history of science simply would not have been possible without the support of the Consortium....read more
Angela N.H. Creager
Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History
Princeton University
President, History of Science Society
November, 2014
No organization is doing a better job than the Center of connecting historians of science, technology and medicine to each other, to libraries and archives, and to the human and financial resources that make the field so vibrant right now.
Joseph D. Martin
Lyman Briggs College
Michigan State University
Former Dissertation Writing Fellow
November, 2014
The scaffolding that the Center builds around the humanistic studies of the sciences engenders a collaborative spirit that promotes open, interdisciplinary discourse. ... read more
Richard Staley
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
December, 2013
Somehow, the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science has thoroughly changed the meaning of “Area,” while also showing new ways to realise fellowship and community in scholarship....read more
Michael Gordin
Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
Princeton University
December 2013
Nothing, however, has prepared me for the astonishing and rapid success of this organization as a facilitator of research, teaching, outreach, and scholarship in the history of science, technology, and medicine....read more
Kurt MacMillan
Women's and Gender Studies Program
Northern Arizona University
Former Dissertation Writing Fellow
December 2013
The collegiality, efficiency, and depth of knowledge of the Center's community created a rich learning environment for junior scholars...read more
Loren Graham
Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Harvard University
November, 2012
This Center, in my opinion, is currently the most vigorous focus for the history of science in the United States....read more
M. Susan Lindee
Professor of the History and Sociology of Science
Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
November 2012
The Center has fulfilled our highest hopes for what it could accomplish for history of science, technology and medicine not only in Philadelphia but in the world....read more
Joanna Radin
Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and of History
Yale University
Former Dissertation Writing Fellow
November 2012
The Center provides unique resources for stimulating the growth of history of science as an exciting field of inquiry and of action....read more
Lynn K. Nyhart
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
President, History of Science Society
November 2011
it is rapidly becoming an autonomous hub for the regional, and even national, scholarly community in history of science, medicine, and technology ...read more
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Chair, Department of the History and Sociology of Science
Janice and Julian Bers Professor
University of Pennsylvania
November 2011
because of the lively scholarly community that the Center has created here, I am seriously considering retiring in Philadelphia ...read more
Carin Berkowitz
Associate Director, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Former Dissertation Writing Fellow
November 2011
The impact of the fellowship on my career was as much, if not more, in the community that it provided for me as it was in the funding. ...read more
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