The American Medical Directories Project Postdoctoral Fellow
Apply by January 9, 2026
The American Medical Directories Project, in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral research fellowship (09/2026 – 08/2027).
The AMD Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is building a longitudinal, physician-level dataset from newly-digitized archival volumes of the American Medical Directory (1906-1938). The dataset will include valuable physician-level information, including place of training and practice, specialization, and demographic information, and will be made available and accessible to the research community and broader public.
The postdoc will assist the project PI (Ben Chrisinger, Department of Community Health) with key initiatives, including the development of public-facing outputs, and take leadership of at least two academic papers intended to demonstrate the utility of the dataset. The postdoc will have dedicated office space at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT, https://humanities.tufts.edu), a vibrant intellectual community of interdisciplinary scholars, which affords many opportunities to take part in regular seminars, lectures, and networking events. The postdoc may also collaborate with a broader team of scholars, including the project co-PI (Sean Smith, Rice University), internal project advisors which include several Tufts historians, and senior scholars on the project’s external advisory board.
