Call for Applications
Graduate Fellowships
Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture, Pennsylvania State University
        The Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture initiative (SMTC) at Penn State University has been awarded a $300,000 NSF grant for graduate training.  Our program will be offering 6 graduate fellowships 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, 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.