FELLOWSHIP: Wolfsonian Art Museum at Florida International University

Open fellowship program with the Wolfsonian Art Museum at Florida International University, for 2011-2012. Fellowships are awarded for full-time research at The Wolfsonian, generally for periods of three to five weeks. Fellowships include a stipend, accommodations, and round-trip travel. The timing of dates will be negotiated with individual awardees.

Their holdings have significant collections related to health and physical culture. From the catalogue:

Health, hygiene and fitness
The Wolfsonian has many publications and objects that reflect discourses about health in Europe and North America between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War. The Wolfsonian’s library has a particularly rich collection of books and periodicals about nudism and physical culture in early twentieth-century America. Other strong health- or fitness-related areas of the collection are advertisements for health resorts; publications about housing reform and urban planning; and publicity, trophies, and commemorative objects for sporting events. The Wolfsonian also has personal or household objects, such as razors, massagers, sunlamps, and vacuum cleaners; and publicity for public health campaigns.