Announcing the Grantees in the 2023 History of Science RFP

Grant Announcement

In 2023, the Sloan Foundation held an open Call for Letters of Inquiry to advance historical scholarship on the practices and institutions of science and technology. Following a strong response from the research community, the Sloan Foundation awarded 14 grants resulting from this Call, listed below.



Arizona State University

PI: Arthur Daemmrich
Amount: $239,976
Purpose: To study the history of science and technology policy as a profession and an academic discipline


Arizona State University

PI: Beckett Sterner
Amount: $239,556
Purpose: To study the history, origins, and evolution of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)


Duke University

PI: Daniel Gross
Amount: $112,570
Purpose: To study the history of federal investment in scientific training and doctoral programs since World War II


Indiana University

PI: Inna Kouper
Amount: $168,421
Purpose: To study the history of the interdisciplinary field of Commons research and associated communities, networks, and organizations

 

Johns Hopkins University

PI: Eric Abrahamson
Amount: $136,883
Purpose: To study the history of science philanthropy and its role in the development of the United States research, development, and innovation system


Purdue University

PI: David Peterson
Amount: $101,651
Purpose: To study the history of early efforts ay DARPA and NIST to make science visible and measurable


Purdue University

PI: Stephanie Masta
Amount: $124,969
Purpose: To study the history of Indigenous scholar involvement in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)


The Pennsylvania State University

PI: Emily Masghati
Amount: $101,320
Purpose: To study the history of the Julius Rosenwald Fund’s support for Black social scientists in the early 20th Century


University of Delaware

PI: Julie Klinger
Amount: $69,205
Purpose: To support research on the economic and social histories of ubiquitous but poorly documented tools central to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)


University of Maryland, College Park

PI: Melinda Baldwin
Amount: $63,976
Purpose: To support research on the history of refereeing in research journals and at major grant organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries


University of Pennsylvania

PI: M. Susan Lindee
Amount: $75,000
Purpose: To study the history of chimpanzees as scientific commodities in the 20th century United States


University of Utah

PI: Sarah Small
Amount: $78,406
Purpose: To study the history of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) and its role in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in economics


University of Washington

PI: Charlotte Lee
Amount: $170,000
Purpose: To support historical research on how knowledge communities in engineering coordinated around the problem of reliable numerical computing


Yale University

PI: William Rankin
Amount: $49,530
Purpose: To support historical research on the use of physical simulations of weather and seismic events in various U.S.-based industries since the early 20th century

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