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archivist * public historian * nursing history * unabashed geek * Philly
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
Nurse Practitioner Awards in Research or Preservation!
Two awards provide up to $5,000 of support to students, faculty, nurse practitioners, archivists, & scholars and researchers in nursing, health care, or a related field. Due June 1, 2025.
More information: nursing.virginia.edu/nursing-hist...
#InHOR recognizes that, while history is written by the victors, #archives are described by folks who want to max access. Learn how #InHOR address these inequities at inherownright.org/spotlight/ad...
18.03.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, let's explore In Her Own Right (inherownright.org), a wealth of data, sources, and teachable moments in the history of women's activism prior to suffrage. With thanks to #NEH, #CLIR, #DelmasFoundation, & #GenderJusticeFund.
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Flyer on white background detailing 42nd annual nursing and healthcare history conference October 16-18, 2025. Purple gradient accents. Historical photograph of nurses in white uniforms and blue nurses capes.
CFP for the 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History Conference (Oct. 16-18, 2025) now open!
Submit your abstract for our 3 tracks:
- Original Research
- Teaching Nursing and Healthcare History
- Thematic Proposals
Due February 28 #histnursing
More: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-call-fo...
Registration includes a "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" workshop with @manchesterup.bsky.social editor Meredith Carol and Nursing History and Humanities Series Editor @alannahtomkins.bsky.social
11.02.2025 01:12 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I find myself pointing people to the talks from this (or a related?) project regularly, so am excited for the book!
The talks: youtube.com/@familyarchi...
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
The Bates Center is the proud home of Loretta C. Ford’s professional papers, learn more: findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPEN...
#NursingHistory #Archives
Loretta C. Ford (right) working with a Nurse Practitioner student who is holding an infant
Loretta Ford in her military nurse during World War II
RIP Loretta C. Ford (1920-2025) was a devoted & passionate leader in American nursing, best known for co-founding the nurse practitioner (NP) profession & making a lasting positive impact on how Americans access care www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
#Nursing #NursingHistory #NursePractitioner
It is expected that the research and new materials produced by our scholars will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing and healthcare. Please find a general description of the Center’s fellowships below: The Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Research Fellowship provides up to $6,000 of support to faculty from all disciplines from colleges and universities, based on evidence of preparation and/or productivity in historical research and/or teaching related to nursing. The Alice Fisher Society Fellowship offers up to $5,000 to support scholarship in the history of nursing. The Fisher Fellowship is open to those with masters’ and doctoral level preparation. Applications will be available to view November 1. Please contact the Center at historyfellowships@nursing.upenn.edu if you have any questions regarding the application process.
🚨 Fellowship Deadline Klaxon 🚨
Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing fellowship applications are due Feb. 3
www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/abou...
Know a historian who’s interested in a public history job? @scihistoryorg.bsky.social is hiring a Curatorial Fellow at our museum in Philly!
24-month term limited staff position, starts Sept ‘25, pays $55k/year with benefits + reloc asst. US work auth req. Apps (no letters) due Jan 15
More info:
Table display of nursing artifacts and images in the Reading Room of the Bates Center
Bates Center’s research fellowships are live! Apply to visit us in Philly in 2025- www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/abou...
#Fellowships #Research #Archives #SpecialCollections #PennNursing #NursingHistory
Quote- What happens in the present is not an accident. It has a past. ~ Joan Lynaugh. Image of nurses in white nursing uniforms and caps sitting on the ground outside.
What happens in the present is not an accident. It has a past.
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