Dear SIGCIS Friends, The Linda Hall Library<https://www.lindahall.org/> is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library's outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions. The Linda Hall Library holds nearly half a million monographs and more than 43,000 journal titles documenting the history of science and technology from the 15th century to the present. Its collections are exceptionally strong in the engineering disciplines, chemistry, and physics. In addition, the Library boasts extensive resources related to natural history, astronomy, earth science, environmental studies, aeronautics, life science, infrastructure studies, mathematics, and the history of the book. The Library offers residential fellowships to support on-site research in Kansas City, as well as virtual fellowships for scholars working remotely using resources from the Library's digital collections. Applicants may request up to four months of funding at a rate of $3,000 per month for doctoral students and $4,200 per month for postdoctoral researchers. The Library is also offering several fellowships intended for specific groups of researchers: * The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship provides nine months of residential funding ($5,000 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar whose research explores the intersection of science and the humanities. * The History of Science and Medicine Fellowship, offered in partnership with the Clendening History of Medicine Library<https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/history-and-philosophy-of-medicine/library.html> at the University of Kansas Medical Center, provides one month of residential funding ($3,000 per month) to a doctoral student whose research examines the intersecting histories of science and medicine. * The Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History provides up to two months of residential funding ($4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar studying the history of aviation or spaceflight. * The Presidential Fellowship in Bibliography provides up to four months of residential funding ($4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on the study of books and manuscripts as physical artifacts. Further details about the Linda Hall Library's 2025-26 fellowships can be found on our website: https://lindahall.org/fellowships. While you are there, you can submit an application or sign up for our online information sessions on December 17, 2024<https://www.lindahall.org/research/linda-hall-library-fellowships/fellowship-application/linda-hall-library-fellowship-information-session-december-17-2024/> and January 3, 2025<https://www.lindahall.org/research/linda-hall-library-fellowships/fellowship-application/linda-hall-library-fellowship-information-session-january-3-2025/>. You are also welcome to email questions directly to fellowships@lindahall.org<mailto:fellowships@lindahall.org>. Please note that all application materials, including recommendation letters, are due no later than January 17, 2025. Please share this announcement with graduate students, colleagues, or anyone else who might be benefit from the Linda Hall Library's collections. Many thanks and best wishes, -Ben Gross Benjamin Gross, PhD Vice President for Research and Scholarship Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology 5109 Cherry Street, Kansas City, MO 64110-2498 Office: 816.926.8718 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB47DF.930FD8D0]<https://www.lindahall.org/experience/events/life-beyond-earth-exhibition/> http://www.lindahall.org<http://www.lindahall.org/> | http://www.kcinvent.org<http://www.kcinvent.org/> Follow us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/Linda.Hall.Library/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/LindaHall_org> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/linda.hall.library/> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/linda-hall-library>
