Rice Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nursing and Health Care History

Rice Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nursing and Health Care History. The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry (ECBCNHI) and the Religion/Policy/Conflict (RPC) Initiative at the University of Virginia invites applications for one full-time, fixed-term Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the University of Virginia to start in the fall of 2017. This position supports

New Vera Roberts Archival Research Guides Now Available

Dr. Helen Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan, College of Nursing, and team completed two projects funded through the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN/ACHN) Vera Roberts research grant: Vandenberg, H., Boschma, G., McBain, L., Meijer Drees, L., McCulloch, M., & Gallagher-Cohoon, E. (2016). Guide to Archival Resources for Outpost Nursing and Remote Hospital History

American Association for the History of Nursing 2017 Conference

The 2017 AAHN Conference will be held September 7-9 in Fairport, NY.  Registration for the conference is now open.  More information including the conference programme is available here. Keynote speaker information is available here. This year’s pre-conference “Trends in Publishing Nursing History: Sources and Strategies to Enhance Scholarly Productivity” will be held on September 7th.  More

2017 CAHN-ACHN Award Winners

Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners: Martha Groppo, Sylvane Filice, Michelle Spadoni, and Eliza Richardson! Vera Roberts Endowment Fund for Nursing Research Martha Groppo will receive $6000 for her project “Making the Periphery Central: Nursing, Rural Healthcare, and the Anglo World, 1887-1939.” Groppo looks at the interconnected networks of rural district nursing organizations and explores

AAHN: Call for Papers

American Association for the History of Nursing 34th Annual Nursing & Healthcare History Conference Rochester, New York September 7–10, 2017 The American Association for the History of Nursing and St. John Fisher College Wegmans School of Nursing are co-sponsoring the Association’s 34th annual conference to be held in Rochester, NY. The conference provides a forum for researchers interested in sharing