NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Linda Hall Library

FAIN: RA-285477-22

Linda Hall Library Foundation (Kansas City, MO 64110-2498)
Benjamin Gross (Project Director: August 2021 to present)

9 months of stipend support (1–2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Linda Hall Library Foundation makes this application on behalf of the Linda Hall Library and requests $156,225 of funding over three years in order to offer a new, nine-month postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities. The Library's unrivaled collections of primary and secondary sources enable researchers to reconstruct the history of science and technology from the fifteenth century to the present and evaluate how those disciplines were shaped by the social contexts in which they were pursued. The Library is also the center of a dynamic intellectual community that includes research fellows, in-house experts, and scholars from across the Kansas City metropolitan area. This proposal details the Library's ongoing strategic efforts to expand its fellowship program, increase awareness of its holdings, establish ties with nearby cultural institutions, and support promising scholarship that views science, technology, and engineering through a humanistic lens.