Fellowships & Postdocs
Last updated 05/10/2013 by Jay Burlingham.
2 postdocs: Hist Public Health & Int’l Orgs, Movements & Experts, Birkbeck College U of London
Deadline: June 10 2013
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46668
Updated: May 10 2013
The Reluctant Internationalists: A History of Public Health and International Organisations, Movements and Experts in Twentieth Century Europe
Two Post-Doctoral Research Associates
The Department of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, invites applications for two Post-Doctoral Research Associates for up to 4 years, to work with Dr Jessica Reinisch on a new Wellcome-funded project on "A History of Public Health and International Organisations, Movements and Experts in Twentieth Century Europe"
The project looks at ideas and forms of internationalism, and the international ambitions of doctors, medical researchers, relief workers, public health teams, politicians, generals, diplomats and policy-makers in the twentieth century. It seeks to change the way we think about the history of internationalism and international organisations.
Throughout the century, overwhelming impulses for international action stemmed from public health crises and the need for collaboration on questions of medical relief beyond national boundaries. The physical destruction in the aftermaths of the two world wars, mass population movements, the rise in the numbers of stateless people and region-wide famines, for example, all prompted concerns about global epidemics and public health disasters, and resulted in specific, closely circumscribed, international mechanisms. The project explores the roles played by debates about public health and real or imagined health crises in the formation of international structures, mechanisms and organisations.
The two Post-Doctoral Research Associates will assume responsibility for two constituent research projects on crucial "international moments", regions or organisations in twentieth-century Europe. Their research is expected to lead to academic publications. Case studies could include, for example, the health work and impact of the League of Nations, or governmental, non-governmental, humanitarian or philanthropic organisations in medical relief; the public health challenges in the states in Eastern Europe at key points in the century and their international ramifications; or the medical work or public health operations of army medical corps.
In addition to researching their case studies, the Post-Doctoral Researchers will be involved in all aspects of the project, so as to gain valuable professional and intellectual experience with a view to furthering their academic career.
- They will contribute to a collaboratively-written history of twentieth century health and internationalism
- They will help to organise workshops, an international conference and other events, and will be involved in co-editing resulting publications.
- They will write content for the project's website and be actively involved in the public engagement work of the project.
- They will be expected to help with the administrative work involved in running the project, including managing the budget, hosting board meetings, hosting visiting fellows, editing outputs.
- They will be encouraged to present their results in international conferences and workshops.
Applicants must have, or expect to obtain shortly, a PhD with a specialisation in modern history or related field.
- Prior experience of conducting archive research is essential, as is the ability to work in a team.
- Working knowledge of a relevant language other than English is highly desirable.
- A commitment to distributing academic knowledge widely and accessible is highly desirable, as is a demonstrable interest and track record in the themes and facets of the project.
The position is based in London but will require travel to the relevant archives. Research expenses for these trips are included in the post.
Please contact Dr Jessica Reinisch on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for further information or with any informal enquiries. Please apply via http://www.jobs.ac.uk and s,ubmit a CV, covering letter explaining how the candidate's background and interests fit the position's requirement, and the contact details of three academic referees.
Applications are due on 10 June. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by 24 June, and interviews will be conducted in early July.
The position will start on 1 September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. Since the funding is strictly time-limited, a later start date would mean a corresponding reduction in the duration of the fellowship.
PhD Studentships: Hist Public Health & Int’l Orgs, Movements & Experts, Birkbeck College U of London
Deadline: June 10 2013
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46669
Updated: May 10 2013
The Reluctant Internationalists: A History of Public Health and International Organisations, Movements and Experts in Twentieth Century Europe
Two 3-year (full-time) PhD Studentships
The Department of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, invites applications for two PhD studentships, to work with Dr Jessica Reinisch on a new Wellcome-funded project on "A History of Public Health and International Organisations, Movements and Experts in Twentieth Century Europe"
The project looks at ideas and forms of internationalism, and the international ambitions of doctors, medical researchers, relief workers, public health teams, politicians, generals, diplomats and policy-makers in the twentieth century. It seeks to change the way we think about the history of internationalism and international organisations.
Throughout the century, overwhelming impulses for international action stemmed from public health crises and the need for collaboration on questions of medical relief beyond national boundaries. The physical destruction in the aftermaths of the two world wars, mass population movements, the rise in the numbers of stateless people and region-wide famines, for example, all prompted concerns about global epidemics and public health disasters, and resulted in specific, closely circumscribed, international mechanisms. The project explores the roles played by debates about public health and real or imagined health crises in the formation of international structures, mechanisms and organisations.
The two PhD students will assume responsibility for one of the project's case studies, adapted to their interests and experience.
In addition, the PhD students will be involved in all aspects of the project, which includes:
- collecting and storing date from archives and oral history interviews;
- helping with the organisation of workshops, an international conference and other events;
- writing content for the project's website and participating in the public engagement work of the project;
- contributing to the administrative work involved in running the project.
- They will be encouraged to present their results in international conferences and workshops.
Applicants must have a 1st class or Upper 2nd Class Honours Degree in History or a related subject. A postgraduate degree in a relevant field is highly desirable, although applicants who do not hold a postgraduate degree will be considered if they can demonstrate relevant skills and experiences. Ability and willingness to work with the project team is essential. Working knowledge of a language other than English is highly desirable.
The awards includes payment of fees and stipend. The position is based in London but will require travel to the relevant archives. Research expenses for these trips are included in the post.
Please contact Dr Jessica Reinisch on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for further information or with any informal enquiries. To apply, please submit a CV, covering letter explaining how the candidate's background and interests fit the position's requirements, a research statement of up to 2,000 words, and the contact details of three academic referees.
Applications are due on 10 June. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by 24 June, and interviews will be conducted in the early July.
The Doctoral Fellows will start on 1 September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. Since the funding is strictly time-limited, a later start date would mean a corresponding reduction in the duration of the studentship.
4 postdocs, Production & Mobilizatio of Sci & Tech, French Institute “Research, Innovation, Society”
Deadline: May 31 2013
Updated: May 10 2013
The post-doc fellows selected will undertake an original research project on the production and mobilisation of science and technologies in contemporary societies, including the following topics:
- New explorations on innovation processes (bottom up innovation, "Responsible" innovation, “Social” innovation)
- Socio-technical transitions and governance of change
- Property rights and scientific commons
- Regulation of techno-scientific activities and their products
- Government of the scientific public sphere
- Science and governance, Scales of government, Earthly Politics
- Regimes and institutions of knowledge
- Construction of futures.
Post-doc fellows will be hosted by one of the IFRIS Research Groups. We highly recommend to contact them as soon as possible since a good integration in the groups is one of the core objectives of the IFRIS post-doc programme:
CAK (Centre Alexandre Koyré), contact : Dominique Pestre (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), Amy Dahan (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
CERMES3 (Centre de recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), Contact : Jean-Paul Gaudillière (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
CEPN (Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord), Contact : Benjamin Coriat (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), David Flacher (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
CNAM : LIRSA (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Science de l’Action), contact : Gilles Garel (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) et LISE (Labo Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Economique), contact : Jean-Louis Laville (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
INRA-SenS (Sciences en Société), Contact : Marc Barbier (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
IRD : UMR Développement et Sociétés, Contact : Rigas Arvanitis (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) et UMR PaLoc Contact Frédéric Thomas (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires, Sociétés), Contact : Ashveen Peerbaye (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), Philippe Larédo (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Post-doc researchers are eligible for a contract of up to 24 months, under the standard French salary and work status. Contract starts according to candidate’s constraints.
Requirements:
Researchers holding a doctoral degree or having fulfilled all the obligations of a PhD (certified by their supervisor) in a field relevant to the IFRIS research topics. Candidates cannot apply for a post doc in the group where they have prepared their PhD.
Applications
Formal applications will include:
- a one page resume/CV
- a list of publications
- 2-3 publications in pdf format
- a statement of proposed research (in English, 5 to 10 pages) including a (preliminary/provisional) budget for travel expenses
- a letter by a member of the hosting research group. The letter will state how the candidate’s project will be integrated in the group and the collaboration and support she will benefit
- Candidates will also name two referees and make sure that their referees send their letters in due time (June 20th at the latest)
Selection criteria
Quality of the research project
Relevance in relation to the IFRIS research strategies (http://ifris.org/presentation/)
Quality of the integration of the candidate’s project in the hosting research group
Quality of the candidate
The application will be sent in one single file, pdf format, and will be registred under the following name :
Name_appelpostdoc_IFRIS.pdf (where « name » is the last name of the candidate).
Applications will be sent before May 31st, 2013 to: Siméone Boston, IFRIS (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
The Strong Research Fellowships in Rochester, New York
http://www.thestrong.org/press/releases/2012/06/4337-strong-announces-play-research-fellowships
Updated: June 16 2012
The Strong is pleased to announce The Strong Research Fellowships to provide financial support for scholarly play research in The Strong’s incomparable collections of toys, games, board games, electronic games, and a wide breadth of play-related records and historical archives that document the importance of play in people’s lives.
The Strong invites applications from academic professionals, independent scholars, museum scholars, and advanced graduate students at the Masters or PhD level living outside a 50-mile radius of The Strong. Fellowships are awarded three times a year and granted for periods ranging from one week to three months in the following amounts: a $400 stipend per week for a maximum of three weeks and a $1,500 stipend per month for a maximum of three months.
More information about the fellowships: http://www.thestrong.org/press/releases/2012/06/4337-strong-announces-play-research-fellowships
For questions, please contact Shane Rhinewald at 585-410-6365 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
2 PhD positions, “Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950,” Inst for History of Medicine
Updated: March 16 2012
Applications are invited for 2 doctoral positions (65% E13) to be held for up to five years from 1 October 2012 at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin, for the research project “Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950” funded by the European Research Council.
Observation in the clinic, testing in the laboratory, curve-tracing machines: we may think we know how physicians know. We don’t. That is because we have, until recently, ignored the primary medium in which medical knowledge occurs, namely, writing and its organisation and reorganisation on paper. Written patient records are almost as old as medicine itself and still central to its practice. Remarkably unexamined is how these have generated knowledge. The project aims to address a question of interest for understanding science, technology and medicine in the broadest sense: How are generalizations drawn from particulars? Key techniques appear to be those of mastering on paper. These are shared across clinical, natural historical, pedagogical, forensic, accounting, administrative and other activity. To learn how paper technology works and how this has shaped knowledge over time, to show how human beings know and deal with the physical world through operations of pen and paper: the project aims to contribute to this wider goal through its focus on medicine.
Successful applicants will join Volker Hess, Andrew Mendelsohn, and Ruth Schilling to complete a seven-person research group by focusing on one of the following areas:
1. Physici and Protophysici. Physicians in administration in early modern northern Italy and the Spanish court. Writing practices at intersections of government, university, and natural history. Languages: Latin, Italian and/or Spanish required.
2. Republic of letters, medicine in the 17th and 18th centuries. Natural historical practices at work in medical practice and the learned world. Languages: German, French, and English required; Latin preferred.
3. Birth of the clinic revisited. Knowledge practices from bedside to handbook at Montpellier, Leiden, Edinburgh, Vienna, 1700-1800. Languages: Latin, English, and French required; reading knowledge of Dutch preferred.
4. The Laboratory in the Clinic, 1850-1950. Role of modern experimental sciences in observation and understanding of disease(s). Languages: English and German required.
5. Constructing clinical cases, 1900-1950. Medical knowing from clinical recording to scientific publication. Languages: English and German required. Experience in historical research on patient records preferred.
Applicants should have a strong academic track record and research potential in history or history of science and/or medicine as well as specific knowledge and skills needed to work on one of the research areas listed above. Teamwork ability, readiness for cooperative research, and openness to multiple disciplinary approaches are essential.
Project members will communicate in English and German. Applicants with at least a listening knowledge of German will be at an advantage.
Project members will have the opportunity to gain academic qualifications – PhD or Habilitation – through their work on the project.
Preference will be given to equally qualified female applicants.
Enquiries: Volker Hess .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Andrew Mendelsohn .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
To apply, please send full CV, sample of written work, and two-page proposal (in English or German) for research in one of the areas listed above by 25 March 2012 to:
Ms. Stefanie Voth, Sekretariat
electronically .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or by post
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Ziegelstraße 10
10117 Berlin
Applicants will be interviewed in the week of 16 April 2012, with decisions announced the following week.
Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Fellowship, U of Texas
Updated: February 22 2011
The Moody Medical Library of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is pleased to offer the Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Fellowship to support research related to the history of medicine conducted at the Moody Medical Library.
The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Fellowship will provide between $2,000 and $4,000 per year to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses for the period between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011. Upon completion the recipient will deliver a paper at the University of Texas Medical Branch outlining the research, provide an expense report and a copy of the final research product. The University of Texas Medical Branch also reserves the right to post excerpts from the work, a photograph and biographical material of the Fellow on our website: http://www.utmb.edu/
The fellowship proposal must demonstrate that the Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections contain resources central to the proposed topic. These collections consist of over 18,000 titles and 10,000 pamphlets and reprints documenting the development of Western medicine and allied sciences. The Moody Medical Library's holdings of books printed prior to 1501 place it among the top medical sciences libraries in the United States. Collection strengths include fundamental and secondary works in anatomy and surgery, anesthesiology, immunology, and occupational medicine. The Titus Harris Collection of the History of Psychiatry maintains over 4,500 volumes and is considered one of the most comprehensive accumulations of works on the subject.
The archival collections housed at the Moody Medical Library are among the largest and most significant in the history of the biomedical sciences in the southern United States. These collections provide records of state and national organizations, and professional societies in medicine and related fields in addition to the private and professional papers of University of Texas Medical Branch faculty, staff, students and alumni. An inclusive list of these archives may be found at the Texas Archival Resources Online website:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/index.html
While preference will be given to applicants who live beyond commuting distance of Galveston, all are encouraged to apply, including graduate students. Applicants should submit a fellowship proposal outlining the subject and objectives of the research project and historical materials to be used, (not to exceed 2 pages), a project budget including travel, lodging and research expenses, curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation by April 1st, 2011. Award decisions will be made by May 1st, 2011.
Applications should be mailed to:
Robert O. Marlin IV, Archivist
Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections
Moody Medical Library, University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Blvd.
Galveston,TX 77555-1035
Humboldt Research Fellowships
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/771.html
Updated: September 15 2010
The Humboldt Research Fellowship enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars of all nationalities and all disciplines to carry out research projects for extended periods of time in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Fellowships are awarded on the basis of academic achievement, the quality and fea sibility of the proposed research and the applicant's publications.
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers: Postdoctoral scientists and scholars who have completed a doctoral degree within four years prior to the application submission date are eligible. This fellowship: Allows for a stay of 6-24 months in Germany and provides a monthly stipend of 2,250 EUR. Application materials and detailed information are available on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation webpage.
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers: Scientists and scholars who have completed a doctoral degree within twelve years prior to the application submission date are eligible. This fellowship: Allows for a stay of 6-18 months in Germany; may be divided into a maximum of three visits of at least three months each; and provides a monthly stipend of 2,450 EUR. Application materials and detailed information are available on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation webpage. Additional allowances are available for accompanying family members, travel expenses, and German language instruction.
Applications may be submitted at any time to the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn. The review process takes several months, and the selection committee meets three times a year to review applications.