Countway Library Fellowship

Countway Library Fellowship is a grant from the Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation that funds focused research on the history of women in medicine at Harvard Medical School's Francis A. Countway Library. One annual grant of $5,000 covers travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible research period between July 1 and June 30.

Preference is given to projects dealing specifically with women physicians, health workers, or medical scientists, proposals addressing the history of women's health issues, and those using the Archives for Women in Medicine. Recipients must provide a one-page research report, a copy of the final product, and deliver a lecture on the project.

Fellowships | The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation Foundation Fellowships are done in conjunction with institutions who have collections on women in medicine. Our goal is to ensure researchers get access to the history we have preserved.

Countway Library Fellowship To support focused research on the history of women in medicine, the Foundation provides annually one $5,000 grant to cover travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible research period between July 1 and June 30. The research will be conducted at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine , Harvard Medical School.

Manuscript collections which may be of special interest include the recently-opened Mary Ellen Avery Papers , the Leona Baumgartner Papers , and the Grete Bibring Papers . Preference will be given to: Projects that deal specifically with women physicians, health workers, or medical scientists. Proposals dealing with the history of women’s health issues may also be considered.

Those who are using collections from the Archives for Women in Medicine. Research on the topic of women in medicine using other material from the Countway Library will be considered. Applicants who live beyond commuting distance of the Countway, but all are encouraged to apply, including graduate students.

In return, the Foundation requests a one-page report on the Fellow’s research experience, a copy of the final product, and a lecture on the project. The Archives for Women in Medicine (AWM) is a project of the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and the Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The AWM’s goal is to recognize outstanding medical leaders and to document the social phenomena that brought large numbers of women to the forefront of medicine. The AWM’s objective is to actively acquire, process, preserve, provide access to, and publicize the papers of women physicians, researchers, and medical administrators. A list of collections in the AWM can be provided.

Established in 1960 as a result of an alliance between the Boston Medical Library and the Harvard Medical Library, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is the largest academic medical library in the United States. The Countway Library maintains a collection of approximately 700,000 volumes.

The Center for the History of Medicine’s collection of archives and manuscripts, numbering between 15-20 million items, is the largest collection of its kind in the United States.

The manuscripts collection includes the personal and professional records of physicians from the medieval and Renaissance periods through the twentieth century, including the professional papers of many renowned Harvard faculty members as well as physicians and scientists from New England and around the country.

2018 Heather Munro Prescott, PhD 2015 Louella McCarthy, PhD 2014 Rebecca Kluchin, PhD 2013 Ciara Breathnach, PhD 2011 Hilary C. Aquino, PhD 2010 Joan Marie Johnson, PhD 2010 Sarah Rodriguez, PhD 2005 Kimberly Jensen, PhD 2005 Susan Rishworth, MLS, MA