http://faculty.la.psu.edu/ssps/smtc.html.
Call for Applications
Graduate Fellowships
Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture, Pennsylvania State
University--University Park
The Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture initiative (SMTC) at Penn
State University has been awarded a $300,000 NSF grant for graduate
training.
We will be offering 6 graduate fellowships for studies beginning in the
fall of 2002. The initiative is co-directed by Londa Schiebinger, Edwin E.
Sparks Professor
of History of Science, and Robert N. Proctor, Distinguished Professor of
the History of Science.
SMTC spans the departments of History, English, Philosophy, Anthropology,
Women's Studies and several of PSU's leading departments of life, social,
and physical sciences. Core faculty include: Londa Schiebinger (colonial
science, gender and science, voyages of discovery, race and natural
history), Robert N. Proctor (human origins, Darwin, agates, health history,
Nazis, the social construction of ignorance), Richard Doyle (rhetoric,
virtuality, extraterrestrials, nanotechnology, cryonics, sci-fi), Guido
Ruggiero (Renaissance science, sex and gender, Italy), Susan M. Squier
(literature, reproductive technology, aging, science fiction), and Nancy
Tuana (feminist philosophy, sexuality, science ethics). Associated faculty
include: Alan Derickson (U.S. public health), Greg Eghigian (medicine and
psychiatry, modern Germany), David McBride (health and medicine of
African-American and non-Western populations), Adam Rome (U.S.
environmental history), Jack Selzer (rhetoric of science and technology),
Judi Wakhungu (women in science, global energy policy), and Kenneth M.
Weiss (biological anthropology, bioethics, genetics). Please visit our SMTC
web site for more information: http://faculty.la.psu.edu/ssps/smtc.html.
Interested students should apply directly to a department for admission.
Fellowships will be awarded on a case-by-case basis. For the Department of
History, please contact Prof. Carol Reardon ([log in to unmask]). For the
Department of English, please contact Jack Selzer
([log in to unmask]). Students are also encouraged to affiliate with any of the
100-odd other PSU science strengths (e.g., Astrobiology, Molecular
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Cultural Geography, Evo-Devo,
etc.). Applications are due January 15, 2002.
Londa Schiebinger
Edwin E. Sparks Professor of History of Science
Department of History
Weaver Building 108
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA
Tel.: 814-865-1367; Fax: 814-863-7840
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