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American Association of Nursing – Writing and Research Awards

zlakhani — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:16:50 +0000

At its 27th annual conference, entitled International Perspectives on Nursing History, held jointly with European Nursing History Group in London, England, the American Association for the History of Nursing awarded its distinguished Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing to Dr. Kara Dixon Vuic for her book Officer, nurse, woman: The Army Nurse Corp in the Vietnam War, published in 2010 by Johns Hopkins Press. Dr. Vuic is an assistant professor of history at Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA.

The Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing was awarded to Dr. Julie Fairman and Dr. Patricia D’Antonio for their article “Reimagining nursing’s place in the history of clinical practice,” which was published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Dr. Fairman and Dr. D’Antonio are on the faculty of the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.

The AAHN’s Teresa E. Christy Award recognizes excellence in historical research and writing done while the researcher was a doctoral student. This year the award was presented Dr. Winnifred Connerton for her dissertation, “Have cap, will travel: U.S. nurses abroad, 1898-1917.” Dr. Connerton is a nurse and nurse-midwife who currently holds a joint post-doctoral fellowship with the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Detailed information regarding all AAHN Awards can be obtained from the web site, www.aahn.org.

Winterthur Research Fellowship

zlakhani — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:19:39 +0000

Winterthur, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2011-12. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short-and-long term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowships include 4-9 month NEH fellowships, 1-2 semester dissertation fellowships, and 1-2 month short term fellowships.

Fellows have ful access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online at winterthur.org. Resources for the 17t to the early 20th centuries include period trade catalogues, auction and exhibition catalogues, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. Fellows may conduct object-based research in museum’s collections, which include 85,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life. Winterthur also supports a program of scholarly publications including Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture.

Fellows may reside on a furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds, and participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur, the nearby Hagley Museum and Library, the University of Delaware and other area museums. Fellowship applications are due January 15th, 2011. For more details and to apply visit winterthur.org/fellowship or email Rosemary Krill at rkrill@winterthur.org.

Research Associate/Visiting Faculty Women’s Studies in Religion

sdouglass — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:18:30 +0000

Harvard Divinity School announces five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2011-12 in its Women’s Studies in Religion Program. Proposals should utilize both religion and gender as central categories of analysis. They may address women and religion in any time, place or religious tradition, and may utilize disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of theology, the humanities, and the social sciences. Full-time residence is required at Harvard Divinity School during the 2011-12 academic year. Associates meet together regularly for collective discussion of research in progress; each Associate teaches a one-semester course related to the research project; and the Associates present their research in a public lecture series. Further information at www.hds.harvard.edu/wsrp. Posted on H-Net at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=40585