Long-Term Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Science History Institute

FAIN: RA-290796-23

Science History Institute (Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702)
Michelle DiMeo (Project Director: August 2022 to present)

12 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 Science History Institute seeks 34 months of stipend support to create an NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship and requests a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. The Institute is home to the Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library, the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, and an award-winning museum showcasing how science is embedded in our everyday lives. As the Institute’s Beckman Center fellowship program celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary, we recognize that we have outgrown our ability to award enough fellowships to qualified applicants through exclusive use of our restricted endowment funds. NEH funding would allow us to expand our capacity to support one long-term postdoctoral research fellow each year for three years, creating more opportunities to embed the history of science in wider humanities discourse.