NEWS & UPDATES
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES We are seeking interested folks to help keep SAHMS a thriving organization. Volunteers are the heart of SAHMS! Everyone who assists with SAHMS - from the board, to the local arrangements committee, to the various committee chairs - are volunteers. For information on current opportunities, view the slides from the recent volunteer meeting.
Click here to sign up. For further information about SAHMS, email the organization at sahmsconference@gmail.com.
| SAHMS 2026 Student Conference The 2026 Virtual Student Conference will be held on Zoom Friday, September 18, 2026. The conference includes papers and panels by students on topics related to the history of science, medicine, and tech in any time period or region. Registration for this event is now open. SAHMS 2027 Conference The 2027 SAHMS Conference will be March 4-6 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We will be partnering with the C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society and the University of PIttsburgh Institute of Bioethics. The Call for Papers can be found here. Visit our Conference page to keep informed of other updates. Membership
NESBIT AWARD The Robert Nesbit Graduate Student Paper Award is named in honor of long-time SAHMS member, Dr. Bob Nesbit, who has been a stalwart member of SAHMS nearly from its beginning. We recognize his many contributions to the organization and his consistent and steadfast leadership. The award named for him recognizes graduate student papers that engage with the scholarship of the history of medicine, science, and technology—or related fields—and that present a compelling contribution to the field. It is open to all graduate students who present at the annual conference, and we invite our winners to publish in the SAHMS journal. The winner for 2025 is: Nick Elwing (University of Alabama), ““Lord have mercy on me! I have given the wrong medication”: Alabama’s Legal and Institutional March Towards Professionalization, 1823-1891” |
