Funder: Science History Institute
Due Dates: January 15, 2027 (Application) | January 31, 2027 (Recommendation letters)
Funding Amounts: US$50,000 for 12 months, plus US$1,000 for travel and professional development and up to US$2,500 for health insurance
Summary: Supports full-time residential research and writing using the Science History Institute’s collections.
Key Information: Fellows must live within 20 miles of Philadelphia and make the Institute their primary workplace.
Description
The Science History Institute’s postdoctoral research fellowships provide twelve months for full-time research and writing in residence in Philadelphia. Run through the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, the program supports sustained scholarly work drawing on the Institute’s library, archival, and museum collections. These holdings focus on chemistry, chemical engineering, and the modern life sciences, spanning the fifteenth century to the present.
Applicants need not identify as historians of chemistry: the relevance of the collections to the proposed project is central. Previous fellows have worked in environmental, business, labor, and art history, as well as science and technology studies. Fellows join the Beckman Center’s scholarly community through writing workshops, lectures, and regular meetings while pursuing their individual research goals.
