2001 Fellowship Awards

New York Academy of Medicine Library

Historical Collections

The Historical Collections Department of the New York Academy of Medicine Library is pleased to announce the winners of its 2001 competitions for Research Fellowships in the Academy Library.

The Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine will go to Kenton Kroker, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow at McGill University. Dr. Kroker's project is entitled "The First Modern Plague? An Historical Examination of the Role of Epidemic Encephalitis in the Development of Neurology and Public Health in the United States, 1919-1939."

The recipient of the Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities is Michael Blackie, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Southern California, for work on his dissertation, "Rest Cures: The Fictions and Culture of Regeneration."

We anticipate formally announcing next year's competition in the late summer or early fall.

Edward T. Morman, MSLS, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Collections and Historical Programs
The New York Academy of Medicine
212-822-7314

(posted 5/08/01)