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Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant
The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its fifth annual Research Travel Award for use of the Historical Library.
The 2012-2013 travel grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers who wish to use the collections of the Historical Library. There is a single award of up to $1500 for one week of research during the academic fiscal year 2012-2013 (July1-June 30). Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food, and photographic reproductions. The award is limited to residents of the United States and Canada.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and a description of the project including the relevance of the collections of the Historical Library to the project, and two references attesting to the particular project. Preference will be given to applicants beyond commuting distance to the Historical Library. This award is not intended for primary use of special collections in other libraries at Yale. Applications are due by March 18, 2012. They will be considered by a committee and the candidates will be informed by May 14, 2012.
Applications and requests for further information should be sent to:
Melissa Grafe, Ph.D. John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Yale University P.O. Box 208014 New Haven, CT 06520-8014 Telephone: 203- 785-4354 Fax: 203-785-5636 E-mail: melissa.grafe@yale.edu
Chemical Heritage Foundation History of Science Fellowships for 2012-2013
The Chemical Heritage Foundation, an independent research center, library, and museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, would like to encourage applications for long-term and short-term fellowships in residence at CHF for the academic year 2012-13. These fellowships are for scholars working in some area of the history of science, technology, medicine, or related industries in all periods and geographical areas. All fellowships should be in topics appropriate to the collections in the CHF library and museum.
Philadelphia is a particularly dynamic and fruitful area in which to be working in the History of Science. The Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science brings together 12 institutions and a host of faculty members scattered throughout the immediate vicinity. CHF alone brings in approximately 18 fellows per year, making it one of the largest fellowship history of science fellowship programs in the country, and has 8 PhDs in History of Science and related disciplines on staff.
The deadline for applications, which are to be completed online, is February 15, 2012. Fellows will be selected by a peer review selection committee.
The research collections at CHF, where the chosen fellows will be in residence throughout their fellowship period, range from the fifteenth century to the present and include approximately 6,000 rare book titles, 50,000 post-1850 print primary source titles, significant archival holdings, tens of thousands of images, and a large artifact and fine arts collection, supported by an extensive secondary and reference collection in the history of science. Within the collections there are many areas of special strength, including: alchemy, mining & metallurgy, dyeing and bleaching, balneology, gunpowder and pyrotechnics, gas-lighting, books of secrets, inorganic and organic chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. Short term fellows must also demonstrate a need to use the primary resources in the library in order to be eligible for consideration. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to participate in and make a contribution to CHF's intellectual life.
There are 3 basic types of fellowships being offered: Postdoctoral, Dissertation, and Short-Term.
Postdoctoral Fellowships Open to PhD scholars (degree must be in hand by July 2011) Tenure of fellowship: 9 months Amount of award: $45,000
Dissertation Fellowships Open to graduate students at the dissertation stage Tenure of fellowship: 9 months Amount of award: $26,000
Short-Term Fellowships Open to graduate students and postgraduate scholars Tenure of fellowship: 1-4 months Amount of award: $3,000 per month
We are also currently offering two additional special fellowships:
Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellowship (3 months in residence) and Ullyot Scholarship (2 months in residence). These fellowships are designed to stimulate public understanding of the importance of chemistry and the chemical industries. Applications are encouraged from writers, journalists, educators, and historians of science, technology, or business. Multimedia, popular book projects and Web-based projects are encouraged. Applicants must specify how the outcomes of their projects will reach a broad audience. Amount of award: $10,000 (Société) or $6,000 (Ullyot).
Only online applications will be accepted. All applications must include: (1) A cover letter. (2) A research proposal of no more than 1,500 words. (3) A C.V. of no more than four pages in length. (4) Contact information for two references.
For further information write to
Fellowships Coordinator Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Research Fellowships in the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Medicine offers two fellowships to support visiting scholars working in the history of medicine and public health:
The Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine for scholarly study of the history of medicine, using the collections of the New York Academy of Medicine Library
The Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health for scholarly study of the history of medicine and public health, with a preference for the use of visual materials
Each Helfand or Klemperer Fellow receives a stipend of $5,000 to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses for a flexible period between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. Our selection committee, comprised of prominent historians and other scholars, will choose both fellows. We invite applications from anyone, regardless of citizenship, academic discipline, or academic status.
For more information and application forms, visit us online at http://www.nyam.org/grants/research-fellowships/, email history@nyam.org, telephone (212) 822-7313, or write to Historical Collections, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029.
The New York Academy of Medicine is a not-for-profit educational institution established in 1847 to enhance the health of the public. The Academy maintains one of the largest medical libraries in the United States, with a collection of more than 550,000 volumes, 275,000 portraits and illustrations and 183,000 pamphlets. The Malloch Rare Book Room contains approximately 32,000 volumes in the history of medicine, science and other health-related disciplines.
Applications must be received by Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Fellowships will be announced by Monday, May 7, 2012
Call for Applications for a Five-Week Seminar for College and University Teachers: Health and Disease in the Middle Ages
Application deadline: 1 March 2012
Applications are being sought for a five-week Seminar for College and University Teachers—“Health and Disease in the Middle Ages”—which is being held June 24 through July 28, 2012, in London, England. Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars and Institutes program, the Seminar is sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) and will convene at the Wellcome Library, the world’s premier research center for medical history. This Seminar will gather together sixteen scholars (including up to two advanced graduate students) from across the disciplines interested in questions of health, disease, and disability in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.
A primary goal is to explore how the scientific technologies of assessing disease prevalence and identifying pathogens (particularly leprosy and plague) can inform traditional, humanistic methods (historical, literary, art historical, and linguistic) of investigating cultural responses to disease and disability.
The Seminar also explores how humanistic studies of medieval medicine can inform modern scientific studies of historical diseases, which are developing at a rapid pace thanks to new methods in paleopathology and ancient DNA (aDNA) retrieval and analysis. Our goal is not simply to foster dialogue among the disciplines regarding the intersections of religion, economics, and medicine in the medieval interpretation and treatment of disease, but also to provide a historical basis for understanding crises in global health today.
The two co-Directors, Monica Green and Rachel Scott, are specialists in the fields of medical history and bioarcheology, respectively, and they will be aided by three guest lecturers who bring additional perspectives to interdisciplinary dialogue. Drawing on these multiple areas of expertise, the Seminar advocates studying the material evidence for disease and health-seeking behaviors alongside learned and artistic interpretations. Special emphasis is placed on assisting participants with their independent research projects relating to the History of Medicine, especially those based on unpublished primary sources.
The ideal participant for this Seminar will be a faculty member at a university or college, or an advanced graduate student, working in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences with an interest in research on medieval medicine. The NEH requires that applicants be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for the last three years. The Seminar is designed for those with no prior background in medical history and does not presuppose any advanced training in the biological sciences. Scholars working on any aspect of medieval Europe or the Mediterranean, and in any discipline, are encouraged to apply. Also, because our understanding of Europe will be expanded by thinking comparatively, scholars with expertise in other premodern cultures (e.g., pre-Columbian Americas or China) are encouraged to apply.
The sixteen selected participants will receive a stipend for the five-week Seminar of $3900, to cover airfare, housing costs, and other expenses. Housing has been prearranged at University College London.
Admission is competitive. The application process has two parts:
Part 1 – submitted directly to NEH: Fill out the initial application form online at the NEH website: https://securegrants.neh.gov/education/participants/. This part is for the NEH’s internal records and is the necessary first step of processing your file. Please print it out since a copy of the form also needs to be included in Part 2.
Part 2 – submitted directly to the Seminar Directors, c/o ACMRS (at the e-mail or snail-mail address below): The rest of the application materials consist of a copy of the NEH cover page, a curriculum vitae, a brief essay explaining your interest in the Seminar, and two letters of recommendation.
For further information, please write to us or call at:
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) 4th Floor, Lattie F. Coor Hall Arizona State University P.O. Box 874402 Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
e-mail: healthanddisease2012@acmrs.org<mailto:healthanddisease2012@acmrs.org> Phone: 480.965.4661
Call for Nominations: 2012 Eva Maria Kinne-Saffran Lectureship in the History of Nephrology
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2012
The International Association for the History of Nephrology (IAHN) awards the Evamaria Kinne-Saffran Lecture in History of Medicine on the occasion of every conference.
Evamaria Kinne-Saffran (1941-2002) was a vivid supporter of the value of interdisciplinary bridges and a convincing advocate of the importance of the past in understanding the present and predicting the future.
The lecture is aimed to support scientists, nephrologists interested in History and historians interested in Nephrology alike, who have recently made a major contribution to the field of Nephrology. The Lectureship covers the expenses (up to US $2,000) to attend the IAHN Congress and present a lecture at the Inaugural Ceremony.
We welcome 2012 nominations for this award. The Scientific Committee will evaluate all nominations and then select the winner. Please send letter of nomination, CV of the candidate and all relevant information to the following email address: nominations@iahn.info.
Center for the History of Family Medicine Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine
The Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) is proud to announce its second annual Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine. Interested family physicians, other health professionals, historians, scholars, educators, scientists and others are invited to apply.
The successful applicant will be awarded a fellowship grant in an amount of up to $1,500 to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses relating to conducting research on a project of their choosing dealing with any aspect on the history of General Practice, Family Practice, or Family Medicine in the United States. The fellowship will be awarded directly to the individual applicant and not to the institution where he or she may be employed.
The deadline to apply is Friday, March 30, 2012. All applications will be reviewed in April, with the Fellowship award announced by May 31, 2012.
Complete fellowship rules, application forms and instructions are available online through the Center’s website at the following link:
http://www.aafpfoundation.org/online/foundation/home/programs/center-history/fellowship.html
Or, for more information, please contact:
Don Ivey, MPA Manager Center for the History of Family Medicine 11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway Leawood, KS 66211 Telephone: (800) 274-2237, ext. 4420 Fax: (913) 906-6095 E-mail: chfm@aafp.org
The CHFM serves as the principal resource center for the collection, conservation, exhibition and study of materials relating to the history of Family Medicine in the United States. The Center is located at the national headquarters of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in Leawood, Kansas and is part of the non-profit AAFP Foundation. For more information on the Center, contact Center staff via telephone at 1-800-274-2237 (ext. 4420 or 4422), via fax at (913) 906-6095, or via e-mail at chfm@aafp.org or visit us on the web at www.aafpfoundation.org/chfm
E. Thayer Gaston Writing Competition
(*This scholarship is not open to Graduate students)
Sponsored by the American Music Therapy Association in cooperation with the Student Affairs Advisory Board. Papers on any topic relevant to the music therapy profession using the philosophical, historical, descriptive, or experimental mode of research are invited.
Award: A cash award of $500 to the winner(s) and an opportunity to have the paper reviewed for possible publication in the Journal of Music Therapy.
Requirements: Papers may be individually or jointly authored. Only one paper per entrant. Papers may be any length up to 3,000 words and shall have a title page indicating the author's name, academic institution, and academic advisor's name. No identifying information found on the title page is to be found on any page of the text. Papers are to be submitted in the format approved by the American Psychological Association. Papers must be previously unpublished.
Selection Procedure: Judging will be done on the basis of originality, organization, clarity of writing, relevance of content to the music therapy profession, literature documentation and adherence to the APA style. In the event that the criteria is not met or the judges feel that no paper is worthy, the award will not be presented. Judging will be done by a clinician, an academician, and a non-music therapist in a related field.
Application Deadline: All entries must be received by 6:00 pm EST June 29, 2012 without exception.
Student Scholarship Eligibility All undergraduate, undergraduate equivalency students and graduate students enrolled in a college or university program in music therapy approved by the American Music Therapy Association. All interns in clinical training are considered eligible through their parent academic institution. Student status will be verified through that institution prior to awarding the prize. Applicants must be current Student Members of AMTA in the year in which they apply AND the year in which it is granted.
Complete the Scholarship Application form (and Nomination form if required). This must be submitted with your application. Only complete applications that follow the application guidelines and format will be considered.
Any submitted narrative must be double-spaced, 1-inch margins, in 12-point font. Your narrative must be written for blind review, without specific reference to your name or place of employment.
All applications must be submitted electronically to the AMTA National Office at: scholarships@musictherapy.org
Application must be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. Additional materials – if required – must be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. (Fultz Award applicants may submit .pdf attachments as specified within the applicaiton.)
In your email, please include the name of the scholarship for which you are applying and the application year in the subject line.
Applicants will receive an email confirming the receipt of their application.
Jerry Stannard Memorial Award 2012 Competition
The Department of History at the University of Kansas announces the 2012 competition for the annual award in honor of the later Professor Jerry Stannard. The purpose of the award is to encourage research by young scholars in the pre-1700 fields that Professor Stannard made his own: the history of materia medica, medicinal botany, pharmacy, folklore of drug therapy, and the bibliography of these ideas.
Each year a cash award is made to the author of an outstanding published or unpublished scholarly study in those fields. In 2012 the award will be $800.
The competition is open to graduate students and to recent recipients of a doctoral degree (the Ph.D. degree or an equivalent), conferred not more than five years before the competition deadline.
The manuscripts must be in English, French or German. Only one paper by any author may be submitted in any given year. Each entry should be typewritten, double-spaced, and no longer than 50 pages, including notes, bibliography, and appendices. Entrants should keep copies of their manuscripts, since manuscripts submitted will not be returned.
Each manuscript must be accompanied by the following: (a) a one-page abstract of the paper in English; (b) a current curriculum vitae of the author; and (c) a letter of recommendation from an established scholar in the field. Entrants who are resident in the United States of America are also requested to indicate their home address and social security number.
Entries must be received no later than 15 February 2012. The award will be announced on or about 15 May 2012. All manuscripts and correspondence should be addresses to:
The Stannard Award Committee ATTN: Professor Victor Bailey Department of History - University of Kansas Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 3650 Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 USA
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