The Medieval Colloquium of the Department of English at Harvard University invites applications for the Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, a four-week residential fellowship that can be held at any time during the 2016-17 academic year (September through May). Thanks to the generosity of the Morton W. Bloomfield Fund, established in the memory of one of Harvard’s most distinguished medievalists, we are able to provide up to $3500 towards travel, accommodation, and living costs. We invite scholars at any stage of their postdoctoral career who could usefully spend a month at Harvard to apply. In the past, some fellows with sabbatical leaves have elected to spend a semester with us. Fellows are expected to attend the Medieval Colloquium and to give a paper on the subject of their research. They are also asked to meet with our graduate students, and they are welcome to attend other events at Harvard. We select fellows on the basis of the importance of their research and its interest to our intellectual community.

Applicants should send a brief letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and a two-page project description by email to Daniel Donoghue (ddonogh@fas.harvard.edu) no later than April 25, 2015. Please include details on when and for how long you would be able to be in residence. The fellowship is not normally compatible with teaching commitments at a home institution. We hope to be able to congratulate the successful applicant by the middle of May.

Leeds Humanities Research Institute is pleased to announce a final short-term post-doctoral fellowship for the current academic year.

The LHRI, in collaboration with the Brotherton Library, is pleased to announce a final short-term post-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2015/16. Please note this fellowship is separate from, and in addition to, those recently advertised through the Wellcome/LHRI Non-Clinical Researcher Transitional Funding Scheme.

This fellowship is designed exclusively for early-career researchers to make use of the Special Collections held within the Brotherton Library.

Scholars working in any of the research areas in the Faculties of Arts and PVAC (Performance, Visual Arts and Communications) are eligible to apply.

The successful applicant will spend four weeks in Leeds to carry out research activities aimed at developing his/her ability to make strong applications to externally-funded post-doctoral positions which must then be held at the University of Leeds (e.g. British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowships; Leverhulme Early-Career Fellowships; Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions; Newton Fellowships).

The aim of the fellowship scheme is to help researchers maximise external funding opportunities for post-doctoral research, and the successful applicant must be eligible for relevant funding schemes (as summarised below). Support for developing suitable external funding bids will be provided by the LHRI pre-award team.

Competition for this single award is expected to be exceptionally strong, and only the most promising candidate will be supported. To this end, University of Leeds sponsors/mentors of prospective applicants will be asked to ensure that they are familiar with the quality of the candidate’s postgraduate work before supporting their application.

The successful fellow will be awarded £2,000 living expenses and up to £500 travel expenses, while they are in Leeds.

For full details on the application process, please visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/4245/lhribrotherton_short-term_post-doctoral_fellowships_201516

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Tuesday, 15 March, 2016.

These Fellowships are open to Australian and international researchers and established and emerging scholars. The Fellowships support researchers to make intensive use of the Library’s rich and varied collections.

Applications for 2017 Fellowships are open until May 2, 2016.

For full details, please visit: https://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/fellowships-and-scholarships/national-library-of-australia-fellowships.

Artists, performers, writers, historians, filmmakers, scholars and thinkers are encouraged to apply for a prestigious State Library Victoria Fellowship.

In 2016, the State Library and its partners are offering 12 fellowships including specialist fellowships in children’s literature, Ukrainian studies, performing arts, visual arts and a fellowship to commemorate the centenary of WWI.

Fellowship recipients use the Library’s extensive collections to inform and inspire their work. Past fellowships have produced major exhibitions, public art installations, documentaries, books, graphic novels, plays, musical scores, interactive games and many other creative projects.

The Library will hold an information night for prospective applicants on Thursday 18 February, 6pm.

Applications for the 2016-17 Fellowships close Sunday 17 April 2016.

The Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich is offering gta Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture beginning in Fall 2016. The Institute aims to support researchers in their work and to allow them to fully profit from the resources of the Institute (Archive, Library Werner Oechslin). Senior researchers will have the possibility to stay for 4 to 6 months. Junior researchers can apply for a period of two years. The Institute offers:

• 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture (duration 24 months)
• 1 Senior Researcher Fellowship in History and Theory of Architecture (duration up to 6 months)

Candidates for the Postdoctoral Fellowship must have obtained a PhD in architecture, history of art and architecture or related fields and propose a research project. Selections will be made on grounds of the quality of the project and the academic merits. Candidates for the Senior Researcher fellowship are expected to have several years of academic experience. Successful candidates should involve in the Doctoral Program in History and Theory of Architecture, for instance in teaching a seminar.

Applicants should include a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, 2 letters of recommendation (except when applying for the Senior Researcher Fellowship), and an outline of their future research project, including a time plan. Please apply online, using the link provided on: https://apply.refline.ch/845721/4237/pub/1/index.html. Applications via email cannot be considered. Please address your application to: ETH Zurich, Mr. Matthias Steiger, Human Resources, 8092 Zurich. The application deadline is February 15, 2016.

For further information about the Institute please visit our website: http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch. For questions concerning the position you may also contact Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder (laurent.stalder@gta.arch.ethz.ch) or Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung (philip.ursprung@gta.arch.ethz.ch) by email (no applications please).

The Institute gta is an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. All candidates will be evaluated on their merits and qualifications.

The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be held in 2016-17.

The Libraries encourage research that makes use of Bodleian Special Collections, an outstanding resource for scholarly study and discovery, containing rare printed books, classical papyri, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, literary, political and historical papers, archives, printed ephemera, and maps and music in both manuscript and printed form. Fellowships give applicants from outside of Oxford the opportunity to undertake an uninterrupted period of research with the Bodleian collections.

Application deadline: 14 December 2015.

For eligibility and selection criteria and other application information, please visit: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships

The deadline for all I Tatti Short Term Fellowships is 14 December.

Wallace Fellowships, for four or six months, are available for scholars who explore the historiography and impact of the Italian Renaissance in the Modern Era (19th-21st centuries). Projects could address a range of topics from historiography to the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the Italian Renaissance and its ties to modernity. Also welcome are projects on museum and collecting history, and on the survival of the Renaissance in modern art and architecture, in literature and music, and in philosophy and political thought.

Berenson Fellowships, for four or six months, are available for scholars who explore “Italy in the World”. Projects should address the transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian etc.) during the Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century.

Mellon Fellowships in the Digitial Humanities, for four or six months, are available for projects that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and actively employ digital technology. Applicants can be scholars in the humanities or social sciences, librarians, archivists, and data science professionals. Projects should apply digital technologies such as mapping, textual analysis, visualization, or the semantic web to topics on any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.

See the I Tatti fellowships website for details about these and other grants, including:

Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowships, for three months, are available for curators and conservators. Projects can address any aspect of the Italian Renaissance art or architecture, including landscape architecture

David and Julie Tobey Fellowship, for three months, is awarded to support research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, and especially the role that these works played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting, and questions of connoisseurship.