The following opportunity may be of interest to AAHPSSS members.
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for their 2026-27 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 US$3,000 per month for doctoral students and US$4,200 per month for postdoctoral researchers.
The Library is also offering several fellowships intended for specific groups of researchers:
- The History of Science and Medicine Fellowship, offered in partnership with the Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center, provides one month of residential funding (US$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 (US$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 (US$4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on the study of books and manuscripts as physical artifacts.
The Linda Hall Library is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive research environment and encourages members of any groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in academia to apply for fellowship support.
All application materials are due no later than January 19, 2026. For further information, visit the Fellowships page on their website or e-mail fellowships@lindahall.org.