News and Notes
Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century Art of the Frontier
August 27, 2008
Mary Peterson Zundo, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, was awarded a one-month PACHS Dissertation Research Fellowship for academic 2007-2008. Her dissertation examines the ways in which the scientific classification of the Trans-Mississippi West and the rhetoric of westward travel shaped how many American artists and their audiences understood—visually and conceptually—their nation in terms of mapping the land for empire. During spring 2008 she explored collections at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the American Philosophical Society, examining maps, texts, and images produced by American frontiersman, expedition leaders, and government topographers in the 19th century. Here is a report of her work.
Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820
July 1, 2008
Melissa Grafe is a graduate student at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She was also among the first Dissertation Research Fellows at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science. During December 2007 and January 2008, she worked on her dissertation ‘To attendance and medicine’: Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820 at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania archives. Here is a report of her work.
Arctic Exploration In Motion on WHYY
May 27, 2008
Susan Kaplan, co-organizer of the North By Degree conference describes the film festival, Arctic Exploration in Motion, that will follow the conference. Here is the audio.
2008-2009 Fellowships
May 27, 2008
The Center has awarded six fellowships for dissertation research in area archives and libraries as well as two dissertation writing fellowships. Dissertation Research Fellows will spend one or two months conducting research in the Philadelphia area, and give a talk about their work here. Dissertation Writing Fellows will spend nine months in residence at the Center and speak in the Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
2007-2008 Dissertation Research at PACHS
May 19, 2008
The Center’s first class of Dissertation Research Fellows are using the collections of all the consortium members to conduct research on a broad range of topics.
Regional Colloquium Series
May 15, 2008
The first season of the Philadelphia Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine brought together authors from area institutions, working on a variety of topics, with an audience comprising scholars, teachers and scientists. The series was funded by an educational grant from Merck & Co., with additional funding from members of the PACHS consortium.
Support for Research at the American Institute of Physics
March 18, 2008
Fellows at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science are now eligible for support from the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics for conducting research in the Niels Bohr Library and Archives.
Web of Healing
February 8, 2008
The Web of Healing is an illustrated history of non-traditional and under-investigated aspects of healing and medicine in Philadelphia during the 18th century. The Web also serves as an introduction to the process of “doing history,” drawing on primary materials from Philadelphia’s rich archival collections and critiquing previously published materials.
2008-2009 Fellowship Opportunities
January 15, 2008
Visiting Dissertation Fellowships and Residential Dissertation Writing Fellowships for students in the history of science, technology and medicine. Deadline for applications is March 2, 2008.
2007-2008 Visiting Dissertation Fellows
October 24, 2007
Announcing the inaugural class of Visiting Dissertation Fellows, who will conduct research for one or two months in the archives and collections of PACHS member institutions.
PACHS, Inc.
October 17, 2007
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science is now formally established as a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation and is pursuing a programs of supporting research, fostering a community, and establishing partnerships and outreach.
