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Fellowships at the Huntington Library 

Call for applications 

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based research and educational institution serving scholars and the general public. Each year, The Huntington provides 1,700 scholars with access to world-class collections and awards $1.85 million in fellowships to scholars for advanced humanities research.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Applications for the 2019-2020 fellowship year are due NOVEMBER 15, 2018. For more information, please visit huntington.org/research.

THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Dibner Program in the History of Science invites applications for research fellowships. Post-docs and faculty members are eligible for both long-term awards (9 months in residence) and short-term awards (up to 5 months in residence). Ph.D. candidates are warmly encouraged to apply for short-term awards.

The Eleanor Searle Visiting Professorship in History at Caltech and The Huntington is offered every year to a distinguished historian who wishes to conduct research in The Huntington's collections and to undertake a moderate teaching commitment in the Humanities and Social Science Division at Caltech.

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is open to applicants who have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by no later than November 15, 2018. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections in the history of medicine and related sciences, including public health.

Several short-term awards in the history of medicine are also available.

COLLECTIONS

The Huntington holds one of the largest collections in North America related to the history of science, technology, and medicine. It includes peerless collections of books, manuscripts, instruments, and visual materials from the Renaissance to the post-war period. For more information, contact Daniel Lewis, Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology at dlewis@huntington.org or Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at jklein@huntington.org.