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 (car9@psu.edu).
For the Department of English, please contact Jack Selzer (jls25@psu.edu).
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.
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