Linda Hall Library Announces 2025-26 Fellowships
The Linda Hall Library is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025-26 research fellowships. During the coming academic year, the Library will support 30 scholars, including both residential and virtual fellows. Residential fellows will travel to Kansas City to explore our collections, while virtual fellows will conduct research remotely using digitized materials.
The 2025-26 cohort includes researchers based in the United States, Austria, Canada, Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. These doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and independent researchers will use the Library's holdings to investigate the history of science, technology, and engineering. Their projects reflect the breadth and depth of our collections, including the investigations into the history of telephone poles, longitude, and the art of poetry of science.
The Linda Hall Library is also offering several specialized research fellowships this year:
- Silvia M. Marchiori, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, received the History of Science and Medicine Fellowship, which has been jointly sponsored by the Linda Hall Library and Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center since 2019.
- Malcolm Noble, a freelance historian, received the Presidential Fellowship in Bibliography, which supports research that focuses on the study of books and manuscripts as physical artifacts.
Further information about these scholars and their research projects will be posted on the fellowship program page prior to the start of the academic year on July 1, 2025. For now, please join us in welcoming the 2025-26 fellows to the Linda Hall Library's scholarly community.
2025-26 Linda Hall Library Fellows
- Brooke Belisle (Stony Brook University), Virtual Fellow
Seeing Stars: Astronomical Media - Francisco Javier Bonilla (Independent Scholar), Virtual Fellow
Downstream from the Locks: The Technopolitics of Water in Panama's Urban Borderlands - Elizabeth Carleton (University of California, Riverside), Residential Fellow
Perfecting Galileo: Collaborations Between Artist and Astronomer in 17th-Century Europe - Stephen Case (Olivet Nazarene University), Residential Fellow
Plan[e]t Engineer: Gene Wolfe and the Deep Future of the Anthropocene - Michael Feagan (University of Western Ontario), Virtual Fellow
Electric Trees: An Environmental and Embodied History of Telecommunications Infrastructure - Karen Bloom Gevirtz (Independent Scholar), Virtual Fellow
Updating the History of Longitude - Amelia Goldsby (University of Iowa), Residential Fellow
Trees as Bodies of Communication: The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting, 1780-1870 - Gloria Maritza Gómez Revuelta (Universidad de Guadalajara), Virtual Fellow
Standardizing the Skies: The IGY and Its Role in Shaping Meteorology Across the Americas - Yooseong Heo (Duke University), Residential Fellow
Rationalizing Socialism: Management, Information, and Technocracy in East Germany, 1953-1989 - Roman Johnson (Brown University), Residential Fellows
Running Barefoot in the Leaves of Grass: A Bodeme Funk Investigation into the Poetry of Science - Shanna Killeen (University of California, Santa Barbara), Residential Fellow
Affect Aliens and the Emphathetic Subject: Contemporary Neuroqueer Aesthetics Across the Transnational Pacific - Anna Majeski (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, Virtual Fellow
The Powers of Painting: Art and Astrology in Renaissance Italy - Silvia M. Marchiori (University of Cambridge), History of Science & Medicine Fellow
A Toolbox in a Book: Images of Surgical Equipment in Eighteenth-Century - Piper Milton (University of California, Santa Cruz), Virtual Fellow
Environmental and Evangelization in the Colonial Americas: Jesuits and Early Modern Science - Charli Muller (New York University), Virtual Fellow
Sharing the Tele-Commons: Anti-Imperialism and Global Telecommunications Regulation, 1945-2010s - Shankar Nair (King's College London), Residential Fellow
A Tale of Two Gins: A Comparative History of Cotton Processing in the United States and Late Colonial India, 1860-1940 - Priya Nambrath (University of Pennsylvania), Virtual Fellow
Early Colonial Engagements with Indian Mathematics - Malcolm Noble (Freelance Historian), Presidential Fellow in Bibliography
A Framework for the Bibliographical Description of Twentieth-Century Colored Office Paper in Historical Context - Omer Ozkan (University of Cincinnati), Residential Fellow
Prestige and Procurement: The Political Dynamics of Military System Selection - Zozan Pehlivan (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Virtual Fellow
Resettler Empires: How Ottomans, Americans, and Britons Conquered the Grasslands - Pilar Ramírez Restrepo (University of California, Santa Barbara), Virtual Fellow
Orinoco's 'Labryinth of Languages': Linguistic Knowledge and Jesuit Missions on the Margins of the Spanish Empire, 1660-1784 - James Russell (Rio Salado College), Residential Fellow
Alchemy, Annotation, and Ingenuity - Anna Schewelew (University of California, Santa Barbara), Virtual Fellow
Skimming Soviet Science: Human and Machine Translations in Linda Hall Library's "Parachute History Collection" - Julian Silverman (Fashion Institute of Technology), Residential Fellow
Show and Tell: A Live History of Public Science Demonstrations - John Sullivan (Northwestern University), Residential Fellow
Fractious Knowledge: Earthquakes and Engineering in Eighteenth-Century Italy and the Spanish Atlantic - Maria Guadalupe Tinajero Paz (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Residential Fellow
Case Study Approaches to the Concept of Theoretical Entities - Doris Vickers (University of Vienna), Virtual Fellow
The Astroscopium of Wilhelm Schickard: A Study in Early Modern Astronomical Nomenclature and Source Transmission - Xinyi Wen (University of Cambridge), Virtual Fellow
Extra-Illustrating Natural History, 1500-1900 - Sheryl Wombell (University of Cambridge), Virtual Fellow
Time, Medicine, and Sickness in Early Modern England - Kwabena Agyare Yeboah (University of California, Santa Barbara), Residential Fellow
Reading West Africa's Rivers
