Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship
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Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship supports doctoral students’ research and writing, including archival travel and document translation, to advance dissertations on the history of technology.
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Funder: Society for the History of Technology
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $4,000 dissertation fellowship
Summary: Supports doctoral students’ research and writing of dissertations on the history of technology, broadly defined.
Key Information: Applicants must complete all doctoral requirements except the dissertation by September 1 of the award year.
Description
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) awards the Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship annually to a doctoral student preparing a dissertation on the history of technology, broadly defined. Established in memory of SHOT’s co-founder, the fellowship honors his contributions to developing the history of technology as a scholarly field and the Society as a professional organization.
The fellowship provides flexible support to advance dissertation research and writing, including archival travel, document copying, and translation. Its broad scope is reflected in supported projects on Polish reconstruction and industrial change in East Central Europe, observatory sciences and private property in Syria and Lebanon, electrical development in southern Nigeria, and solar technologies in India.
