Linda Hall Library Fellowships
The Linda Hall Library invites pre-and post-doctoral scholars for its 2017/18 fellowships in the history of science and related areas of science and technology studies. The Library offers researchers a setting that allows for deep immersion in its outstanding collections and a rich intellectual community of in-house experts, fellows, and scholars from nearby Kansas City institutions.
Deadline: January 16, 2017
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Fellowships are awarded for the duration of 1 week to 10 months, in three forms.
- Residential Fellowships: pre- and post- doctoral scholars whose work would benefit from research in the Library’s collections.
- 80/20 Fellowships: a pilot program for pre-doctoral fellow to spend 80% of the time pursuing dissertation-related research in the Library’s collections and 20% gaining valuable career-related skills by planning, curating, and installing an exhibition based on the fellow’s research and the Library’s holdings. This fellowship is for the entire academic year (10 months) during which time the fellow will work concurrently on his/her research and the exhibition under the mentorship of the Library’s VP for Public Programs and in collaboration with the Library’s Communications Department.
- Travel Fellowships: for researchers who wish to make a short, exploratory visit to the Linda Hall Library may apply for a travel fellowship. Typically last 1-3 weeks.
Major strengths of the Linda Hall Library collection include: engineering, natural history, physical sciences, astronomy, life sciences, environmental studies, aeronautics, earth sciences, Cold War science, infrastructure studies, and mathematics. Researchers also benefit from having access to rare books and other primary sources in the Library’s History of Science Collection and supporting monographs, journals, technical standards, patents, and government reports from its general collections.
Fellows pursuing interdisciplinary projects can also take advantage of Linda Hall Library’s reciprocal borrowing privileges at nearby libraries, including the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), Kansas University’s Clendening History of Medicine Library, and the Spencer Art Reference Library at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Find more information about the Libary Collections, Postion Details and Application Procedures.