Fellowships

Postdoctoral fellowship in electronic music history

This fellowship for PhD graduates is offered to by Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture and Ingenium. The postdoctoral fellow joins a project investigating the history and significance of the 1948 Electronic Sackbut: a keystone artifact in Ingenium’s national electronic musical instrument collection. Designed and built by Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine, in Ottawa, between 1945 and 1948, the Electronic Sackbut is widely recognized as one of the world’s first synthesizers—and is likely the oldest surviving example of its kind. The instrument was acquired by the museum in 1975 and is currently the subject of a multi-year reconstruction project.

Postdoctoral fellowship in documenting energy transitions

The postdoctoral researcher will be affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at UofC, and will collaborate with the Energy Stories Lab and the Ingenium Research Institute to develop new lines of research connected to current projects on energy transition, community experiences and understandings of the past and present in northern Alberta, specifically through the “Stories and Lives of Abasand” project.

Black and African Canadian scientific and technological innovations fellowship

Offered to part-time and full-time graduate students from Canadian universities, the fellowship provides an opportunity for students to design a research project related to the study of the historical and/or contemporary connections between Black and African Canadians and science and innovation. Research projects can engage with the socio-economic and cultural impacts of science and technology for Black and African Canadian individuals and communities as well as the contributions of Black and African Canadians to science and innovation.

Offered by Carleton University’s Department of History and Ingenium to a Carleton University graduate student, provides an opportunity to participate in public history projects at a national museum, gain valuable work experience, and have unique access to collections.

For more information on the Garth Wilson fellowship in public history, please visit the Carleton University link at: https://carleton.ca/history/cu-faq/fellowships/

Offered to students from a variety of fields and specialties, providing an opportunity to develop and advance conservation knowledge, ethics and practice related to the Ingenium collection.

Ingenium-University of Ottawa fellowship in gender, science, and technology

Offered to a graduate University of Ottawa student, this fellowship provides an opportunity to participate in public history projects related to gender, science and technology at a national museum, gain valuable heritage and curatorial work experience, and have unique access to collections.

McGill fellowship in the history of science, medicine, and technology

Offered to a McGill PhD student, this fellowship provides an opportunity to study the history of STEM related fields through hands-on access to technological artifacts in Ingenium’s collections and under the guidance of Ingenium Curatorial staff.

For more information on the McGill Fellowship in the History of Science, Medicine, and technology, please visit the McGill University link at: https://www.mcgill.ca/history/graduate/phd/funding