Fellowships: Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture (SMTC), Penn State University (University Park, Pennsylvania)
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:59:35 -0500
From: "N. Lerman, H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU]
Subject: FELLOWSHIPS: SMTC, Penn State U
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Technology" [H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU]
From: Londa Schiebinger [lls10@psu.edu]
Call for Applications
NSF 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 is offering six fellowships for graduate study fall of
2003. Students will receive tuition plus approximately $14,000 per year
(plus health insurance). Multi-year packages are available on a
competitive basis. The SMTC initiative is co-directed by Londa
Schiebinger, Edwin E. Sparks Professor of the History of Science, and
Robert N. Proctor, Ferree 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: Gary S. Cross (technology, toys, junk food), 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://www.psu.edu/dept/smtc/ .
Interested students should apply directly to a department for admission.
For the Department of History, please contact Prof. Carol Reardon
(car9@psu.edu). For the Department of English, please contact Jeffrey
Nealon (jxn8@psu.edu). Application can also be made to Philosophy and
Anthropology. Applications are due January 15, 2003.
Londa Schiebinger
Edwin E. Sparks Professor of History of Science
Co-Director, Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture
Program
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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