The Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL):
Smithsonian Institution Libraries fellowship opportunities
- http://www.sil.si.edu/Galaxy.cfm?id=3.3&
- Fund Type: Fellowship. Residential: Yes. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Historians, librarians, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars are welcome to apply. .
- Award: $3,000.00 per month for up to six months
- Deadline: 5/1/2008
- Details: The Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program is for individuals working on a topic relating to the history of science and technology who can make substantial use of collections in the Dibner Library. Scholars wanting to do research in other areas of SIL special collections should apply for the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program. The Dibner Library specializes in physical sciences and technology,and contains books and manuscripts from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The strengths of the Dibner Library collection are in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, classical natural philosophy, theoretical physics (up to the early twentieth century), experimental physics (especially electricity and magnetism), engineering technology (from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century), and scientific apparatus and instruments.
Baird Society Resident Scholars will do research in SIL's special collections located in Washington, DC and New York City. These special collections include printed materials on world's fairs in the Dibner Library (19th and early 20th centuries); manufacturer's commercial trade catalogs in the National Museum of American History Library (19th and 20th centuries) used to study American industrialization, mass production, and consumerism; natural history rare books in the Cullman Library (pre-1840 works on topics such as the natural sciences and travel & exploration); air and space history in the National Air and Space Museum Library's Ramsey Room (ballooning, rocketry, and aviation, late 18th to early 20th centuries); James Smithson's library in the Cullman Library; and European and American decorative arts, architecture, and design in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library's Bradley Room (18th to 20th centuries).
- Keywords: history of science and technology, social sciences, humanities