The Linda Hall: Science Library and Arboretum Announces 2026-2027 Fellowships
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (June 16, 2026) The Linda Hall: Science Library and Arboretum is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026-2027 research fellowships. During the coming academic year, the Linda Hall will support 29 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 2026-2027 cohort includes researchers based in the United States, Brazil, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, 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.
“Every day around the world, researchers are uncovering the human stories behind some of history's most transformative scientific breakthroughs. We are honored to support the incredible work being undertaken by our fellows to uncover these monumental moments,” said Antoinette Bettasso, the Linda Hall fellowship program manager. "Our fellowships allow individuals in Kansas City and from around the world to tell these stories with new perspectives using our vast and rare collections.”
In addition, the Linda Hall is also offering several specialized research fellowships this year including:
Francesca Gibson, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the History of Science and Medicine Fellowship, which has been jointly sponsored by the Linda Hall Library and the Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center since 2019.
Sebastián Díaz Angel and Sean Seyer received the Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History, which honors the life and legacy of aerospace engineer Jerome Pearson. This fellowship provides funding to scholars studying any aspect of aerospace history.
Allison Marsh 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, 2026. For now, please join us in welcoming the 2027-26 fellows to the Linda Hall scholarly community!
2026-2027 The Linda Hall Fellowships
Myra Abubakar
Cartographies of Containment: Science, Survey, and the Scientific Enclosure of Aceh
Aida Arosoaie
Synthetic Affliction: Climate change, Synthetic Rubber, and Disease on the Asian Natural Rubber Belt
Elizabeth Bennett
Histories and Geographies of Coal Refuse Management, Acid Mine Drainage Remediation, and Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Beyond
Camden Burd
The Nature of Neoliberalism: Deindustrialization, Austerity, and the Remaking of the American Landscape
Ann Campbell
The Coproduction of René Just Haüy’s Crystallography and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton’s Structural Mineralogy
Gabriel Coleman
Fertilizer Research and Agricultural Development in the Postwar TVA
Thomas Cornillie
Engineering Against Danger: Technical Knowledge, Collaboration, and Culture in the Modernization of the American Railroad Industry, 1900-1950
Marcos Cueto
A History of the Ecological Turn in Global Health: Between Integration and Resistance
Sebastián Díaz Angel, Pearson Fellow in Aerospace History
Radar in the Rainforest: Remote Sensing and the Tropical Laboratory of Cold War Earth Observation, 1960s–1980s
Lucia Delaini
By Eye and by Hand: Embodied Measurements at the Dawn of Modernity
Francesca Gibson, History of Science and Medicine (HSM) Fellow
Hysterical Conceptions: Reproduction, Madness, and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Jennie Jiang
Scaling Ultra-Processed Foods: Soy, Chemicalized Capitalism, and the Metabolic Pathways of U.S. Empire
Lena Kasten
Errant Objects in the Book(s) of Nature
Aleksandra Kobiljski
The Sewer that Never Was: Urban Waste Water Management in Beirut (1958-1990)
Faridah Laffan
The Promise of the Past: Science, Empire, and Victorian Biblical Archaeology
Sabina Luz
Time machines: chronometry, observatories, and the global circulation of precision industry
Allison Marsh, Presidential Fellowship in Bibliography
How Engineers Organized Their Library
Suzanne Moon
Climate Change, Agriculture, and the Sociotechnical Imagination: Rice Cultivation in California
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Of airs, oceanic waters, and unknown places: medicine, astrology, and meteorology in early modern Iberian and American almanacs
Adam Przywara
Housing Waste: Designing and Building with Industrial By-Products in the long 20th century
Kaitlin Risen
Where No One Has Gone Before: The American Imagination of Space, 1930-1957
Guy M. Sechrist
The Art of Gauging: Practical Mathematics and Statecraft in Early Modern English Commerce
Sean Seyer, Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History
Contested Wings: The Hidden Fight to Control American Aviation
Cecilia Slane
Unbecoming and Undesirable: The Study, Use, and Transformation of North American Peatlands in the Long 20th Century
Adelheid Voskuhl
Engineering Institutions: Industrialism, Theories of Technology, and Bourgeois Culture in the Second Industrial Revolution (c. 1890 to 1930)
Annelise Walker
Collecting the Subterranean: Mining and Minerals between Alto Perú and Spain, 1749–1809
Xiaona Wang
Academic Politics Across Eurasia: Jesuit Astronomy and the Uses of Chinese Evidence in the Newton Wars
Elexis Trinity Williams
Menfish, Mermaids & Aquanauts: Scientific Diving and the Evolution of Cold War Hybridities in American Oceanography, 1943-2027
Tiankui Zeng
Rainforest on fire: our changing understanding of the tropical rainforest
About The Linda Hall: Science Library and Arboretum
Founded in 1946, The Linda Hall is a science library and arboretum where curiosity leads to discovery. Through exhibitions, research, public programs, educational initiatives, and extraordinary collections, The Linda Hall explores the ways scientific ideas have shaped -- and continue to shape -- our lives, communities, and future. Open to all, The Linda Hall invites visitors to uncover the stories behind innovation, connect with the human side of science, and unleash their curiosity. Learn more at lindahall.org.
