Research Travel Grants

Research Travel Grants is sponsored by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology. Research Travel Grants are intended to encourage and support use of the CSHL collections, which are rich in the history of the life sciences. The grants provide reimbursement for direct costs associated with doing research in residence at CSHL.

Research Travel Grants | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The Research Travel Grants are one of three scholarship categories offered by the CSHL Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology . These fellowships of up to $1000 are intended to defray the cost of visiting the collections in the CSHL Library and Archives.

Please see descriptions of the CSHL collections at the Archives homepage and consult detailed finding aids on CSHL ArchivesSpace . Applications may be submitted at any time. They will be considered on an ongoing basis.

The Research Travel Grants are intended to encourage and support use of the CSHL collections. They award up to $1,000 (USD) to each recipient for reimbursement of direct costs associated with doing research in residence at CSHL. While here, grant recipients will have support from our team of archivists, librarians, and historians.

If space permits, they will be eligible to rent on-campus accommodation during their stay. The fellowship is open to scholars (at any career stage), journalists, writers, and filmmakers with promising projects that would illuminate material in the CSHL collections. Applications may be submitted at any time.

They will be considered on an ongoing basis. The application package must include the following: A completed application form (pdf). A research proposal (see below for detailed instructions).

A brief budget statement showing the expenses for which support is requested. A curriculum vitae. Please include education and employment history, dates of study, areas of study, previous publications, and previous or current fellowships, grants, and awards.

Please submit applications electronically via email to [email protected] . Attach all documents in . pdf, .

doc, or . docx formats, with a brief covering letter in the body of the email. Please format the subject line of your email as “Research Travel Grant application – [Your Name]” In a maximum of 1000 words, the proposal should explain your research question or objective, the types of sources you intend to use, and the significance of the proposed research to your scholarly trajectory and to your discipline or field.

The proposal must identify specific items or record groups you would use at the CSHL Library and Archives. Please submit your proposal in double-spaced 12-point font. We seek original, ambitious proposals that demonstrate the likely relevance of CSHL collections to the project.

Potential applicants are encouraged to learn more about the collections by contacting CSHL archivists before applying.

At the conclusion of their visit, Research Travel Grant recipients will be asked to: provide CSHL with a report on the results of their research; acknowledge the grant in all publications which result from their research; notify CSHL of any publication or other creative expression resulting in whole or in part from the grant.

Year Recipient Research Title 2026 Jens Rydstrom Lund University, Sweden Building Identities: The Private Correspondence of Svante Paabo and Jens Rydstrom 2026 Elizabeth Schulz University of Leeds Evolution, Eugenics, and the Evolutionary Tree 2026 Angela Yu UC Berkeley Slow Life 2026 Maya Bernstein Schalet University of Arizona From Refugee to Zebrafish Research Pioneer: The Impact of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2026 Ewa Barbara Luczak University of Warsaw Genius Men: Beyond the Biocultural Myth 2025 Diane B.

Paul UMass Boston; Harvard University In the Name of Anti-Eugenics: History as a Political Resource in Struggles over Abortion 2025 Brittany Guerin Ankhlave Alliance Mind, Mutation and Memory: Exploring Infectious Disease, Telepathic Healing and Cognitive power in the works of Octavia Butler 2025 Margaret Spaulding University of California, Los Angeles The Land of sunshine and Shadows: Eugenics and the Making of California 2025 Alicia Kamien Kazhdan New York University Neurotheological Approaches to Religious Experience: Integrating Historical and Cognitive Perspectives through Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives 2025 Peter Rees University of Cambridge Scientific Evaluation: Sydney Brenner as consultant to Lord Rothschild 2025 Paul Chomet The Boyce Thompson Institute and Chomet Consulting LLC Capturing snapshots in history: Images from a collection of Barbara McClintock’s microscope slides 2025 Henry Jacobs Yale University Vikings in the Jungle: The Eugenicist Origins of an Indigenous Revolution in Panama 2024 Maki Umemura Cardiff University Evolving Ecosystems, Emergent Technological Modalities, and the Building of the Modern Therapeutics Business, 1978-2008 2024 Antoine Levrier University of Minnesota Towards an All In Vitro Phage Lytic Cycle 2024 Grace Maria Eberhardt University of Illinois Making “Latin Americans”: Bureaucracy and Heredity in the Construction of Latinx Identity, 1920s to the Present 2024 Qinyan Wu University of Pennsylvania Controlling systems and Controlling legacies:Barbara McClintock’s 1961 Conversation with Two Bacterial Geneticists 2023 Vineet Bafna U.

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San Diego Barbara McClintock on Genome Rearrangements 2023 Karl-Oskar Gustafsson Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts Barbara & The Jumping Genes 2023 Kathryn Maxson-Jones Purdue University Documenting the History of Genomics 2023 Sandra Erbacher Pratt Institute Invasive Species and Immigration 2023 Miguel Garcia-Sancho University of Edinburgh Twin Tracks in the History of Genomics: A Comparison of the Attendee Lists of the Chromosome Mapping Workshops and the CSHL Meetings on the Human Genome Project.

2022 Matt Wilder University of Toronto Institutions, Incentives and Innovation: The Case of Biogen 2022 Rachel Bailey University of Georgia The Human Genome Project as American Scientific Exceptionalism 2022 Robin Scheffler Central Michigan University Only the Dregs Will Be Left: Eugenic Masculinities in Britain and the United States, c.

1890-1920 2021 Susan Swanberg University of Arizona The Rise & Fall of Davenport’s Dream: The De-funding of the Eugenics Record Office 2019 Megan Hines Stony Brook University Art and Biotech: Bay Area Networks, 1965-85 2019 Dana von Suffrin Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Institute for History of Science Cooperation and Competition: The Human Genome Organization, c.

1988-2000 2019 Jake Nabasny University of Buffalo The Epistemology of Eugenics 2017 Keith Burridge University of North Carolina The Messenger: A Play About the Discovery of Messenger RNA 2017 Pietra Diwan Global Science: Transnational Knowledge in the Eugenics Records Office in the 20th Century 2017 Alison Kraft University of Nottingham, UK The Walter B.

James Lab: A Case Study of Biophysics in the Interwar Period 2017 Helen Muller University of New Mexico The Papers and Letters of My Father, Hermann Joseph Muller Advertisement Advertisement