Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical and Postmortem Photographic History

The Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship supports the study of the history of medical and postmortem photography at Yale University, maximizing the research potential of the Stanley B. Burns, MD, Historic Medical Photography Collection and the Stanley B. Burns, MD, collection of postmortem and memorial photography and ephemera. The fellowship welcomes applications from all interested researchers, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research are encouraged, as are applications from individuals pursuing creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research using these visual collections at the Medical Historical Library. The fellowship is a gift of Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, an ophthalmologist and Research Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, and Professor of Medical Humanities at New York University: Langone Health, who began collecting historic photography in 1975 and amassed over a million images curated in multiple books, articles, and exhibitions.