Jiemin Tina Wei merges business history, labor history and history of science to examine the history of industrial fatigue.
New Online Working Groups for 2025-2026
Join an online working group for monthly discussions on specialized topics in history of science, technology and medicine.From Computing Centers to Computer Science: The Political Economy of US Universities and the Rise of Computing, 1930-1990
Sam Franz examines how universities, foundations and corporations developed computing education as a social and economic project in the postwar world — and provides historical context for contemporary issues such as AI, digital labor, and the university's role in the economy.Our Science, Ourselves
Christa Kuljian discusses a network of female scientists who began to examine women in science, gender and science, and sexism and racism in the institutions of science.Applications are due October 15, 2025.
Applications are due November 1, 2025.
Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library and the Department of History are pleased to announce a Research Travel Grant to support scholars conducting research in any of the Library’s collections.
Apply by August 22 for support to conduct research in the collections of NYAM.
Adriana Fraser examines Consortium collections to find how scientists understood human-microbe relations in the second half of the twentieth century.
Anna Doel finds unexpectedly rich personal and professional communications between U.S. and Soviet scientists across the Iron Curtain.
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology invites historians and philosophers of science to apply for the Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship at CSHL.
Please help the Organization of American Historians assess how budget cuts are influencing historians' research.
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 5:00 pm EDT
Randall Packard
Johns Hopkins University
Friday, September 5, 2025, 11:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
Friday, September 5, 2025, 12:00 pm EDT
Wendy Kline
Huntington Library
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 10:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 4:30 pm EDT
Helen Curry
Princeton University
History of Science Program
The Seed Farm at Princeton
Princeton Food Project
History of Science Program
The Seed Farm at Princeton
Princeton Food Project
Monday, September 15, 2025, 10:30 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
Member Institutions
- American Institute of Physics
- American Philosophical Society
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- Columbia University
- Drexel University
- Duke University
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Harvard University
- History of Science Society
- Huntington Library
- Johns Hopkins University
- Library of Congress
- Linda Hall Library
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McGill University
- National Library of Medicine
- New York Academy of Medicine
- Newberry Library
- Princeton University
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Science History Institute
- Smithsonian Institution
- United States Naval Observatory
- University of California San Francisco
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- University of Maryland-College Park
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Sydney
- University of Toronto
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wagner Free Institute of Science
- Wellcome Collection
- Yale University