ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions – Call for Associate Investigators for 2016

The call for Associate Investigators for 2016 is now open. Full details are on our website: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/get-involved/associate-investigators.aspx

There are two Calls for Applications for 2016:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researchers
• General Researchers

Eligible applicants will:

1. Be resident in Australia; and
2. Normally be expected to hold a PhD in a relevant discipline, but cases may be made for equivalent scholarly standing based on a strong research track record, or from Arts practitioners contributing to this area of research. Currently enrolled postgraduate students may not apply.

Applications close: 31 August, 2015.

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified humanities scholars to conduct research at the Kluge Center using the Library of Congress collections and resources for a period of four to eleven months. Applications are open to foreign nationals as well as US citizens, closing 15 July, 2015.

Visit the Library’s website: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge.html for further information.

The St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship in Mediaeval History, to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2015-2016.

The Fellowship is open to any academic in a permanent university post with research interests in mediaeval history. The financial aspect of the fellowship is a subsidy (up to £3000) towards the cost of travel to St Andrews and accommodation during your stay. Previous Fellows have included Dr Christina Pössel, Professor Cynthia Neville, Dr Ross Balzaretti, Dr Marlene Hennessy, Professor Warren Brown, and Dr Edward Coleman The fellowship is currently held by Professor Richard Kaeuper.

The Fellowship carries with it no teaching duties, though the Fellow is expected to take part in the normal seminar life of the mediaeval historians during their stay in St Andrews. Weekly seminars, held on a Monday evening, run from September–December, and February–May. You will also be invited to lead a workshop on your chosen research theme during your stay. Fellows are provided with computing facilities and an office alongside the mediaeval historians in the Institute. The university library has an excellent collection for mediaeval historians.

You should send a letter of application by the advertised closing date, together with a scheme of research for the project on which you will be engaged during your time in St Andrews. You should also enclose a CV, together with the names of two academic referees, who should be asked to write by the closing date. All correspondence should be addressed to saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is 30 April 2015.

Further enquiries may be addressed to the Co-Director, Dr James Palmer (saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk) or to colleagues in the Institute, whose contact details may be found on www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims

Applications are invited from students enrolled in postgraduate research degrees for grants to assist with research at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. The research will primarily use the documentary heritage resource of the Museum Library; manuscripts and archives, photographs, ephemera, maps, and publications including early newspapers.

Research should focus on one or more of the following priority areas of research:

• Auckland Studies
• Origin, evolution of biogeography of flora and fauna of New Zealand
• History and development of cultures
• Significance and meaning of meaning of collections associated with human history
• New Zealanders at war

Applications close on Thursday 30 April 2015 and awardees will be notified by Friday 29 May 2015. For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/notices/2015/03/nancy-bamford-research-grants.html

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of nearly 60,000 men and women (all deceased) who shaped British history and culture—in the British Isles and overseas—from the Roman period to the present day.

The Dictionary is a research and publishing project of the University of Oxford’s History Faculty and Oxford University Press, with a staff of academic editors and publishers. The ODNB’s General Editor is the historian, Professor Sir David Cannadine.

First published in print and online in 2004, the Oxford DNB is now regularly updated online with new biographies and thematic content published in January, May, and September of each year. With more than 11,200 portraits, the ODNB is also the largest published collection of British portraiture, researched in association with the National Portrait Gallery, London.

In 2015 the ODNB will make available two research bursaries funded by OUP. The bursaries are intended, via a defined research project, to promote further imaginative investigation of the Dictionary’s content in ways that add to our understanding of the British past.

The Dictionary is looking to award two research bursaries to begin in September 2015 and to run during the academic year 2015-16. In each case, the successful candidate will work on a defined research project that draws on an aspect of the Oxford DNB’s content, be this in the form of Dictionary entries, portrait images, or other biographical data. It is expected that successful applications will take the form either of a discrete piece of research or form part of a larger project in the humanities, such as a PhD dissertation, journal article, book or teaching resources.

Each bursary will be for the sum of £750, which is intended to assist in undertaking the research project (for example, with travel/accommodation when visiting the Dictionary’s office in Oxford, or to libraries and archives). Bursary recipients will engage with the Dictionary’s academic editors and OUP staff during the course of the award.

Successful applicants will be required to write a case study of their work for publication on the ODNB’s website, as well as an essay for OUP’s academic blog. The award is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions. It is also expected that research will lead to additional outputs: for example, a seminar or conference paper (at Oxford or elsewhere), a journal article, an online or visual presentation of research findings, a teaching resource for an HEI.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://global.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/news/researchbursaries

Applications close on Sunday 31 May, 2015.

The AAIA Fellowship is to support travel to Greece for research purposes by Australian post-graduate students and academics from Australian Universities. Scholars from the fields of Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology, History and Literature, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies who need to spend time for their research in Greece are eligible to apply.

Applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents in Australia and must have a B.A. degree with Honours or equivalent qualifications.

The value of the fellowship is A$15,000, plus a 20% discount on accommodation at the AAIA Hostel.

Applications for 2015 are now open. The deadline is June 30.

Further information and guidelines regarding the Fellowship can be found by downloading the brochure.