Call for Applicants: Disability History Association Conference Award

The Disability History Association invites applications for the Fall 2020 Conference Award. This award is intended to help cover costs for conferences attended between October 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021. Eligibility: This award is open to graduate students and contingent faculty, as well as underemployed, unemployed, or community-based scholars and artists. The DHA is particularly interested in…

Postdoc: Disability Studies

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-23: Disability Studies Brown University Deadline: February 1 from the position advertisement, emphasis added: The Department of American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Disability Studies, to be held jointly with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. We…

Application Deadline: Postdoctoral Research Position in Early Modern Disability History

The research project ‘Lived Religion and the Changing Meaning(s) of Disability from Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution’, affiliated with the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) based at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University, Finland, invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Researcher (Early modern disability history) for a…

Application Deadline: Kay Fellow in Premodern Disability Studies

"Brandeis University invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Premodern Disability Studies. We seek a Fellow who takes a multicultural and intersectional approach to disability in the global, ancient world. An ideal candidate would examine disability and disabled persons within a premodern context by drawing upon robust theoretical frameworks to embrace…

Application Deadline: Funded PhD studentship @ UCL History and Wellcome Collection

Applications are invited for "Commonplacing Health and the Body in Early Modern England". This is a 3.5 year PhD studentship funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme to be held at UCL History and Wellcome Collection. Project Description: Matters of health and the body were everyday preoccupations for early modern…

Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities and Science Application Deadline

The scheme is designed to support young scholars willing to join CSMBR events. It runs every two years and is named after the Italian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine and is considered the father of quantitative experimental physiology.

Application Deadline: Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop

The Disability History Association is seeking applications for our annual Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop (DHGWW). This workshop series is designed to support graduate students working on disability history and foster community in the field. The workshop provides participants with valuable feedback on their writing while also offering them a glimpse into the future directions…

CFP: SourceLab, vol. 5 – Documenting Disability in History

Sponsored by the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Call for Proposals for SourceLab, Vol. 5. Theme: Documenting Disability in History Deadline: Friday, August 25, 2023 (for development during the Fall 2023 semester) SourceLab is a digital documentary publishing initiative sponsored by the Department of History at the University of Illinois.…