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New Dissertation Completion Fellowships

The Consortium is pleased to announce a new Dissertation Completion Fellowship program, generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Unsettling Quantification: Social Science and the Promise of Girls' Education

Olivia Casey uses Consortium member collections to show how mid-twentieth-century economists and demographers complicated prevailing ideas tying girls' education to fertility control.

American Genius: A History of the Idea in the Modern United States

William Krause explores how the concept of individual genius shaped U.S. culture, industry and academics in the twentieth century.

News and Notes

Science History Institute's 2026 Gordon Cain Conference on "The Global History of Modern Science, 1400–1914"

Registration now open for the Science History Institute's 2026 Gordon Cain Conference taking place August 6 and August 7, 2026.

Building Mechanical Boys: A Raced and Gendered History of Autism in the 20th Century United States

Elizabeth Maher examines the gendered and racialized bifurcation of psychological diagnoses, and the historical roots of autism’s association with white masculinity and technocracy.

Cold War, Public Health, and Brazil: Exploring Transnational Networks of Knowledge (1955-1978)

Nathalia Gomes uses Consortium member collections to explore the layers of local and global agency in one of the world's largest disease eradication programs.

Knowledge Propaganda: Soviet Socialism as an Epistemic Project

Alexey Golubev uses Consortium collections to explore state-sponsored efforts to promote scientific citizenship.

Ancient Bones and Modern Science: Fossil Collecting in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Samantha Wagner finds contested visions of the earth sciences and empire in the fossil record of the North American West.

CFA: Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship

Cold Spring Harbor Library is accepting applications until August 31.

CFA: Jefferson Garden Research Fellowship

Apply for this APS fellowship by April 19.

Yale Library Invites Grant Proposals for Research in Medical Historical Collections

Applications are now being accepted for travel fellowships and grants to support research in the medical historical collections of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Apply before midnight April 26, 2026.