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