The Visiting Fellowship Programme
We award visiting fellowships to scholars to pursue research on the history of instructions and colonial collecting at our research environment in the department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University.
Each semester we invite 1–2 scholars to join us and we welcome applications from both junior and senior scholars. During a period of 1 to 4 weeks to be taken during the term time, the scholars have the opportunity to present their research and interact with the Instructing Natural History group. It is encouraged that Fellows will use the fellowship to launch collaborative research, joint publications and/or joint funding applications with researchers in the Instructing Natural History group.
The fellowship covers travel costs and accommodation in Uppsala during a period of maximum one month. Visiting fellows are provided with office space.
The Visiting Fellowship Programme is a part of Linda Andersson Burnett’s Wallenberg Academy Fellowship and is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University.
Instructions
The application is to be written in English or Swedish and contain the following:
1. Curriculum vitae.
2. Personal letter.
3. Project plan (max 3 pages) that describes the research to be conducted during the stay.
4. Complete list of publications.
Eligibility
Candidates for the visiting fellowship must have been successfully awarded a PhD by the time they apply.
Deadline
The closing date for next round of applications is to be announced.
Applications should be sent to: linda.andersson-burnett@idehist.uu.se
Previous Fellows
Matthew Eddy
Professor / Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science/ Co-Director Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies/ Co-Director Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
Durham University, UK
Andrew Curran
William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities, Fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine
Wesleyan University, USA
Leonie Hannan
Reader in Eighteenth-Century History / Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Eva-Charlotta Mebius
Affiliate Researcher
Uppsala University, Sweden
Laurence Talairach
Professor in English / Associate member of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris)
University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France
Staffan Müller-Wille
Professor in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Image: Linnaeus’ sexual system as it was presented by Ehret, in colour, in 1736. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.