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The student will be based at Durham University, but will perform research at the NMS and receive further train ing at Uppsala University.  Focusing on recently discovered Hewan sources, and combining methods from Science and Technology Studies with training in the NMS collections, the student will explore Hewan’s career as a black phy sician who adapted imperial communication networks to proactively collect, interpret and disseminate biomedical information in ways that disrupted sev eral of the European stereotypes about the people and culture of Africa. Th e full description of the studentship can be read here: (https://www.durham .ac.uk/departments/academic/philosophy/postgraduate-study/postgraduate-oppo rtunities/data-race-and-empire-african-health-scottish-missions-and-the-inf ormation-strategies-of-dr-archibald-hewan-1832-1883/)https://www.durham.ac. uk/ (https://www.durham.ac.uk/)departments/academic/philosophy/postgraduate -study/postgraduate-opportunities/data-race-and-empire-african-health-scott ish-missions-and-the-information-strategies-of-dr-archibald-hewan-1832-1883 / Studentship Summary The studentship is funded by the British Arts and Hum anities Research Council in collaboration with the Northern Bridge Consorti um.  It covers tuition fees (British home rate), expenses, room and board.  The main supervisor is Durham University's Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy, Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science. The successful candidate will be based in the Science, Medicine and Society research group in Durham Univer sity's Department of Philosophy and spend time researching in the African c ollections of the National Museum of Scotland. The student will also be par t of the Northern Bridge AHRC Consortium, which offers further training and placement opportunities.  How to Apply The successful applicant will have a bachelors and a masters degree in History, HPS (History and Philosophy of Science), STS (Science and Technology Studies), or subjects such as museol ogy, anthropology, archaeology, etc. that offer significant and demonstrabl e training on the history and science and/or medicine. Students with traini ng on the pre-digital history of health and communication in the British Em pire or on the pre-20th century history of Africa will also be considered.  To apply for the studentship, please submit a PhD application no later than 14 February 2025 to Durham University Department of Philosophy. Indicate y ou are applying for the 'Data, Race and Empire' Northern Bridge Award. Earl y applications prior to 14 February are most welcome and highly encouraged.   Preliminary questions about the application may be sent directly to Prof Eddy ( (mailto:m.d.eddy@durham.ac.uk)Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagl i spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.).  Durham's PhD application portal can be found unit the 'Apply for postgraduate study' tab at:  (https://studyatdurham.microsoftcrmportals.com/en-US/)https://studyat durham. (https://studyatdurham.)microsoftcrmportals.com/en-US/ When prepari ng your application, be sure to include a full CV, three reference letters, and two 3,000-5,000 word writing samples. In lieu of a PhD proposal, pleas e read the project description (appended below) and submit a 1,000 word per sonal statement that explains how your previous academic experience will br ing insight to the themes, methods and questions the project will be addres sing. --- PROJECT SUMMARY Data, Race and Empire:African Health, Scottish Mi ssions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883) Res earch Question Historians have traditionally ignored the contributions of b lack physicians and intellectuals who lived during the long nineteenth cent ury in the transatlantic world. Joining the expertise and resources of Durh am University and the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), this PhD project seeks to address this lacuna by focusing on the biomedical career of Dr Arc hibald Hewan (1832-1883), the first black physician to serve in British Wes t Africa as a Free Church of Scotland missionary doctor. Hewan was born in Jamaica, studied medicine at Edinburgh University, worked in Old Calabar (m odern Nigeria) and then settled in London as a medical practitioner and exp ert on the diseases and natural history of Africa. Using newly discovered H ewan manuscripts, specimens and artefacts, the project seeks to answer the following research question: How did Hewan use African health and natural h istory data within church and medical communication networks to become a sc ientific expert? Research Context During the early 19th century black schol ars from the Atlantic world studied medicine in Scottish hospitals and univ ersities.  Aside from one chapter in Mia Bay’s ground-breaking The White Im age in the Black Mind (2000), most studies that mention 19th century black physicians are largely biographical and give little attention to the roles they played as knowledge-brokers, as collectors and disseminators of data, within transatlantic information networks. Likewise, though historians of g lobal health have written about the medical activities of 19th-century miss ionaries, a Hewan biography, surprisingly, has not been written.  Only a ha ndful of studies have briefly outlined his medical career, or have glossed his missionary activities. Similar professional and intellectual gaps exist in the literature for other black physicians as well. Additionally, though black physicians working in the Atlantic world collected and disseminated important information from local populations relating to health and human r ights, research on their place within the media ecology of empire is thin. In Hewan’s case, he operated within the Free Church’s global information an d communication networks. While media historians have explored how other im perial institutions operated as global information machines and though chur ch historians have investigated the role played by communications technolog ies within ecclesiastical networks, the Free Church’s status as an organisa tion that collected and managed medical data and the role played by its mem bers as information gatherers and strategists, particularly those of Africa n descent, remains virtually unmapped. This project seeks to shed new light on the subject by using Hewan as a case study. Research Methods During the mid 19th century, intelligencers with competing information-gathering stra tegies circulated data in the British Empire via diverse media. The student will explore Hewan’s role in this context with historically-orientated Sci ence and Technology Studies (STS) methods that reconstruct how cultural val ues shaped biomedical data.  In particular, the socio-historical methods de veloped by Ruha Benjamin and Meredith Broussard will be used to reconstruct how data related to black actors was collected, who collected it, why it w as collected and where it was circulated. The student will also learn to em ploy STS methods developed by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Zachary Kingdon, Linda B urnett-Andersson, all members of the supervisory team, that treat the mater ial culture of manuscripts, specimens and artifacts as important historical forms of biomedical data. Additionally, curators in the National Museum of Scotland will offer hands-on methodological training to the student in the ir collections.   Special attention will be given to how these exciting sou rces offer insight into Hewan’s agency as a black data-broker who adapted e cclesiastical and medical communication networks of empire to proactively c ollect, interpret and disseminate information in ways that disrupted severa l European stereotypes about the people and culture of Africa. Museum Train ing In addition to writing a thesis under the supervision of Prof Eddy and other experts based in Durham's anthropology, history and philosophy depart ments, the successful candidate will learn transferable skills relevant to working in a large, public facing museum. The student will gain object inte rpretation skills from a training project in the NMS Edinburgh collections, and management and collection accessibility skills through training sessio ns offered by the museum’s Data and Systems teams. The student's understand ing of the collections will be enhanced through writing several brief repor ts on objects and they will also benefit from working with NMS curatorial s taff in developing a new approach to representing missionary collections. R esearch Community Durham’s Philosophy Department will be the lead departmen t responsible for coordinating academic training and support, and for advis ing the student on how to access Durham's robust history of science and med icine research community. The successful student will join the Science, Med icine and Society (SMS) cluster, a specialised research group within the De partment with a longstanding history in mentoring and training postgraduate researchers.  Upon arrival, the student will be offered doctoral training by the Arts and Humanities Faculty and by the Department on practical topic s ranging from keeping an organised work schedule to how to publish a resea rch paper. Further practical workshops of this nature are offered on a regu lar basis to postgraduates students every term. In addition to the advice, training and support regularly offered or recommended by the supervisory te am, the student will be part of Philosophy's graduate cohort of MA, MRes an d PhD candidates. All first-year PhD students attend Eidos, the weekly doct oral research forum, which helps them design, discuss and implement their r esearch. They also attend departmental workshops that address practical top ics such as understanding the job market, publishing articles, submitting c onference abstracts, etc. The student will also be able to access the postg raduate training and mentoring opportunities offered by the History and Ant hropology Departments, the two partner departments of the project. Supervis ory Team Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy (lead supervisor) is Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science in Durham University’s Department of Philosophy.   He is a cultural historian of science and medicine in modern Britain and its former empire.  His first book The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School (Routledge: 2008; 2016) focused on the different kinds of interdisciplinary data that Scottish middle-clas s professionals used to create the emerging field of environmental science during the Enlightenment. His recent book, Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (Chicago: 2023), used hundreds of notebooks kept on scientific topics during the Scottish Enlightenment to argue that ‘reason’ was a contingent skill learned through the manipulatio n and re-manipulation of manuscript media technologies. He is currently wri ting a book about the relationship between race, information and science in the pre-digital Atlantic world. Prof Justin Willis (supervisor) is Profess or of Modern African History in Durham University's History Department.  Hi s work has been largely concerned with identity, authority and social chang e in Africa over the last two hundred years. He is author of Mombasa, the S wahili and the Making of the Mijikenda (Clarendon: 1993) and Potent Brews. A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999 (Currey: 2002). He is presently researching debates over Uganda's future in 1979-80, in the month s after Amin's fall, and the history of saving and lending in Africa since the 1940s. Prof Hannah Brown (supervisor) is Professor of Medical Anthropol ogy in Durham University’s Department of Anthropology. Focusing on West and East Africa, her publications focus on the delivery of biomedicine in deve lopmental spaces. Previous work includes ethnographic fieldwork in hospital s and with health managers. Her current work is funded by an ERC starting g rant, AliveAFRICA: Animals, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in Africa. This proje ct explores changing animal-based economies in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and the implications of human-animal entanglements for health and well-being. D r Zachary Kingdon (non-HEI advisor) is Senior Curator of African Collection s in the National Museums of Scotland. He is an expert on colonial collecti ng in Africa, the anthropology of creative spractice, and museology and par ticipatory practice. He is author of A Host of Devils: The History and Cont ext of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture (Routledge: 2002) and Ethnogr aphic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows (Bloomsbury: 2019).  Dr Linda Andersson Bu rnett (external advisor) is Associate Professor and Research Group Director in the Department of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala Universit y, Sweden. She is co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colon ial History, 1750-1820 (Yale: 2025). Information also available at:  (https ://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20051989/phd-studentship-data-rac e-and-empire-african-health-scottish-missions)https://networks.h-net. 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Data, Race and Empire:
Af rican Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archib ald Hewan (1832-1883)
 
Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Studentship
Durham University
 
Deadline: 14 February 2025
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Pro ject Summary
 
The Data, Race and Empire PhD studentship offers an innovative m ethodology for knowledge-exchange and collaboration between Durham Universi ty, the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) and Uppsala University on the ext raordinary biomedical career of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883), the first b lack missionary physician in West Africa. The student will be based at Durh am University, but will perform research at the NMS and receive further tra ining at Uppsala University.  Focusing on recently discovered Hewan so urces, and combining methods from Science and Technology Studies with train ing in the NMS collections, the student will explore Hewan’s career as a bl ack physician who adapted imperial communication networks to proactively co llect, interpret and disseminate biomedical information in ways that disrup ted several of the European stereotypes about the people and culture of Afr ica.
 
The full description of the studentship can be read here:< /a>https ://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/philosophy/postg raduate-study/postgraduate-opportunities/data-race-and-empire -african-health-scottish-missions-and-the-information-strateg ies-of-dr-archibald-hewan-1832-1883/
 
Studentship Summary
 
The studentship is funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council in collabora tion with the Northern Bridge Consortium.  It covers tuition fees (Bri tish home rate), expenses, room and board.  The main supervisor is Dur ham University's Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy, Chair in the History and Philoso phy of Science. The successful candidate will be based in the Science, Medi cine and Society research group in Durham University's Department of Philos ophy and spend time researching in the African collections of the National Museum of Scotland. The student will also be part of the Northern Bridge AH RC Consortium, which offers further training and placement opportunities.&n bsp;
 
How to Apply
 
The successful applicant will have a bachelors and a masters degree in History, HPS (History and Philosophy of Science), STS (Science an d Technology Studies), or subjects such as museology, anthropology, archaeo logy, etc. that offer significant and demonstrable training on the history and science and/or medicine. Students with training on the pre-digital hist ory of health and communication in the British Empire or on the pre-20th ce ntury history of Africa will also be considered.
 
To apply for the studentship , please submit a PhD application no later than 14 February 2025 to Durham University Department of Philosophy. Indicate you are applying for the 'Dat a, Race and Empire' Northern Bridge Award. Early applications prior to 14 F ebruary are most welcome and highly encouraged.  Preliminary questions about the application may be sent directly to Prof Eddy (Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambot s. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.).&nb sp; Durham's PhD application portal can be found unit the 'Apply for postgr aduate study' tab at:
 
https://s tudyatdurham.microsoftcrmportals.com/en-US/
 
When preparing your ap plication, be sure to include a full CV, three reference letters, and two 3 ,000-5,000 word writing samples. In lieu of a PhD proposal, please read the project description (appended below) and submit a 1,000 word personal stat ement that explains how your previous academic experience will bring insigh t to the themes, methods and questions the project will be addressing.
 
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African H ealth, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hew an (1832-1883)
 
Research Question
 
Historians have traditionally ignored the cont ributions of black physicians and intellectuals who lived during the long n ineteenth century in the transatlantic world. Joining the expertise and res ources of Durham University and the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), thi s PhD project seeks to address this lacuna by focusing on the biomedical ca reer of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883), the first black physician to serve in British West Africa as a Free Church of Scotland missionary doctor. Hewa n was born in Jamaica, studied medicine at Edinburgh University, worked in Old Calabar (modern Nigeria) and then settled in London as a medical practi tioner and expert on the diseases and natural history of Africa. Using newl y discovered Hewan manuscripts, specimens and artefacts, the project seeks to answer the following research question: How did Hewan use African health and natural history data within church and medical communication networks to become a scientific expert?
 
Research Context
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During the early 19th century b lack scholars from the Atlantic world studied medicine in Scottish hospital s and universities.  Aside from one chapter in Mia Bay’s ground-breaki ng The White Image in the Black Mind (2000), most studies that mention 19th century black physicians are largely biographical and give little attentio n to the roles they played as knowledge-brokers, as collectors and dissemin ators of data, within transatlantic information networks. Likewise, though historians of global health have written about the medical activities of 19 th-century missionaries, a Hewan biography, surprisingly, has not been writ ten.  Only a handful of studies have briefly outlined his medical care er, or have glossed his missionary activities. Similar professional and int ellectual gaps exist in the literature for other black physicians as well.< span style="text-decoration: underline;">
 
Ad ditionally, though black physicians working in the Atlantic world collected and disseminated important information from local populations relating to health and human rights, research on their place within the media ecology o f empire is thin. In Hewan’s case, he operated within the Free Church’s glo bal information and communication networks. While media historians have exp lored how other imperial institutions operated as global information machin es and though church historians have investigated the role played by commun ications technologies within ecclesiastical networks, the Free Church’s sta tus as an organisation that collected and managed medical data and the role played by its members as information gatherers and strategists, particular ly those of African descent, remains virtually unmapped. This project seeks to shed new light on the subject by using Hewan as a case study.
 
Research Me thods
 
< div>During the mid 19th century, intelligencers with competing information- gathering strategies circulated data in the British Empire via diverse medi a. The student will explore Hewan’s role in this context with historically- orientated Science and Technology Studies (STS) methods that reconstruct ho w cultural values shaped biomedical data.  In particular, the socio-hi storical methods developed by Ruha Benjamin and Meredith Broussard will be used to reconstruct how data related to black actors was collected, who col lected it, why it was collected and where it was circulated. The student wi ll also learn to employ STS methods developed by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Zacha ry Kingdon, Linda Burnett-Andersson, all members of the supervisory team, t hat treat the material culture of manuscripts, specimens and artifacts as i mportant historical forms of biomedical data. Additionally, curators in the National Museum of Scotland will offer hands-on methodological training to the student in their collections.  
 
Special attention will be give n to how these exciting sources offer insight into Hewan’s agency as a blac k data-broker who adapted ecclesiastical and medical communication networks of empire to proactively collect, interpret and disseminate information in ways that disrupted several European stereotypes about the people and cult ure of Africa.
 
Museum Training
 
In addition to writing a thesis under the superv ision of Prof Eddy and other experts based in Durham's anthropology, histor y and philosophy departments, the successful candidate will learn transfera ble skills relevant to working in a large, public facing museum. The studen t will gain object interpretation skills from a training project in the NMS Edinburgh collections, and management and collection accessibility skills through training sessions offered by the museum’s Data and Systems teams. T he student's understanding of the collections will be enhanced through writ ing several brief reports on objects and they will also benefit from workin g with NMS curatorial staff in developing a new approach to representing mi ssionary collections.
 
Research Community
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Durham’s Philosophy Department will be the lead department responsible for coordinating academic training and sup port, and for advising the student on how to access Durham's robust history of science and medicine research community. The successful student will jo in the Science, Medicine and Society (SMS) cluster, a specialised research group within the Department with a longstanding history in mentoring and tr aining postgraduate researchers.  Upon arrival, the student will be of fered doctoral training by the Arts and Humanities Faculty and by the Depar tment on practical topics ranging from keeping an organised work schedule t o how to publish a research paper. Further practical workshops of this natu re are offered on a regular basis to postgraduates students every term. In addition to the advice, training and support regularly offered or recommend ed by the supervisory team, the student will be part of Philosophy's gradua te cohort of MA, MRes and PhD candidates. All first-year PhD students atten d Eidos, the weekly doctoral research forum, which helps them design, discu ss and implement their research. They also attend departmental workshops th at address practical topics such as understanding the job market, publishin g articles, submitting conference abstracts, etc. The student will also be able to access the postgraduate training and mentoring opportunities offere d by the History and Anthropology Departments, the two partner departments of the project.
 
Supervisory Team
 
Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy (lead supervisor) is Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science in Durham University’s Depar tment of Philosophy.  He is a cultural historian of science and medici ne in modern Britain and its former empire.  His first book The Langua ge of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School ( Routledge: 2008; 2016) focused on the different kinds of interdisciplinary data that Scottish middle-class professionals used to create the emerging f ield of environmental science during the Enlightenment. His recent book, Me dia and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 ( Chicago: 2023), used hundreds of notebooks kept on scientific topics during the Scottish Enlightenment to argue that ‘reason’ was a contingent skill l earned through the manipulation and re-manipulation of manuscript media tec hnologies. He is currently writing a book about the relationship between ra ce, information and science in the pre-digital Atlantic world.
 
Prof Justin Wi llis (supervisor) is Professor of Modern African History in Durham Universi ty's History Department.  His work has been largely concerned with ide ntity, authority and social change in Africa over the last two hundred year s. He is author of Mombasa, the Swahili and the Making of the Mijikenda (Cl arendon: 1993) and Potent Brews. A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999 (Currey: 2002). He is presently researching debates over Uganda' s future in 1979-80, in the months after Amin's fall, and the history of sa ving and lending in Africa since the 1940s.
 
Prof Hannah Brown (supervisor) is Professor of Medical Anthropology in Durham University’s Department of Ant hropology. Focusing on West and East Africa, her publications focus on the delivery of biomedicine in developmental spaces. Previous work includes eth nographic fieldwork in hospitals and with health managers. Her current work is funded by an ERC starting grant, AliveAFRICA: Animals, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in Africa. This project explores changing animal-based economies in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and the implications of human-animal entanglemen ts for health and well-being.
 
Dr Zachary Kingdon (non-HEI advisor) is Senior Curator of African Collections in the National Museums of Scotland. He is a n expert on colonial collecting in Africa, the anthropology of creative spr actice, and museology and participatory practice. He is author of A Host of Devils: The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture (Routledge: 2002) and Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early C olonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows (Bloomsbury: 2019). 
 
Dr Linda Andersson Burnett (external advisor) is Associate Profe ssor and Research Group Director in the Department of the History of Scienc e and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820 (Yale: 2025).
 
Informat ion also available at: http s://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20051989/phd-s tudentship-data-race-and-empire-african-health-scottish-missi ons
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