The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the classical tradition – in the sense of those elements in European thought, art and institutions that have evolved out of the cultures of the ancient world. Its Library and Photographic Collection are designed and arranged to encourage research into the processes by which one culture learns from another and by which different fields of thought and art act on each other. They are particularly concerned with continuities between the ancient Mediterranean civilizations and the cultural and intellectual history of post-classical Europe, especially in the period to c. 1800.

The Institute is offering a number of short-term Fellowships of two, three or four months for tenure in the academic year 2014-15:

Brian Hewson Crawford Fellowship
A Research Fellowship has been endowed from the estate of, and in memory of, Dr Brian Hewson Crawford, who graduated from the University of London in 1926. A two-month Fellowship is available for the study of any aspect of the classical tradition. Under the terms of the deed, the Fellowship is open to European scholars other than of British nationality.

Alan Deyermond Fellowship
A group of former students of Professor Alan Deyermond FBA (1932-2009) have established a fund to support a short-term research fellowship at the Warburg Institute. A two month Fellowship is available to undertake research on a project related to Spanish or Portugese literature, culture or visual arts before 1600 (with a preference for the Medieval period).

Henri Frankfort Fellowship
The late Mrs Enriqueta Frankfort endowed a Research Fellowship in memory of her husband Henri Frankfort, who was Director of the Institute from 1949 to 1954. The Fellowship, which will be for two months, may be held in any of the areas in which Professor Frankfort made his distinguished contributions to scholarship: the intellectual and cultural history of the ancient Near East, with particular reference to society, art, architecture, religion, philosophy and science; the relations between the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Aegean, and their influence on later civilizations. The Fellowship is not intended to support archaeological excavation.

Albin Salton Fellowship
The late Mr Albin Salton generously endowed an annual Research Fellowship to enable a career scholar to spend two months at the Warburg Institute pursuing research into cultural contacts between Europe, the East, and the New World in the late medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods. The Fellowship is intended to promote the understanding of those elements of cultural and intellectual history which led to the formation of a new world-view, understood in the broadest cultural, political and socio-economic terms, as Europe began to develop contacts with the world outside Europe, and that world came into contact with Europe.

Grete Sondheimer Fellowship
A Fellowship has generously been endowed by Professor Ernst Sondheimer in memory of his aunt, Grete Sondheimer, who worked in the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg and in the Library of the Warburg Institute in London from 1944 to 1947. The two month Fellowship, may be held in any of the areas of interest of the Institute.

Frances A. Yates Fellowships
Dame Frances Yates, who died in 1981, generously bequeathed her residuary estate to found research Fellowships in her name at the Institute. Fellows’ interests may lie in any aspect of cultural and intellectual history but, other things being equal, preference will be given to those whose work is concerned with those areas of the medieval and Renaissance encyclopedia of knowledge to which Dame Frances herself made such distinguished contributions. A number of two-, three- and four-month Fellowships are available. Candidates domiciled in the U.K. may apply for three- or
four-month Fellowships only.

Brill Fellowships at CHASE
The publishing house Brill (Leiden) is sponsoring up to two annual research Fellowships at the Warburg Institute’s Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE). The Fellowships have been made possible by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for publishing, which Brill won in 2012.
Postdoctoral researchers may apply for a two, three or four month Fellowship for research projects on any aspect of the relations between Europe and the Arab World from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Details for Applicants

The Fellowships are generally intended for scholars in the early stages of their careers. Candidates must have completed at least one year’s research on their doctoral dissertation by the time they submit their application for a Fellowship and, if postdoctoral, must normally have been awarded
their doctorate within the preceding five years, i.e. after 1 October 2008. If their doctorate was awarded before this date, they should explain the reasons for any interruption in their academic career in a covering letter.

General Conditions

Those employed as Professor, Lecturer or equivalent in a university or learned institution may normally hold an award only if they are taking unpaid leave for the whole of the period. Those who have previously held a short-term Fellowship at the Institute or are registered at the Institute for a degree are not eligible for the short-term Fellowships listed above. The Fellowship may not be held concurrently with another Fellowship or award. Other things being equal, preference will be given to candidates who do not live within daily travelling distance of the Institute. Any other conditions applicable to individual Fellowships are stated above.

All Fellows will be expected to carry out research on the topic for which they have been awarded their Fellowship, to participate in the life of the Institute and to put their knowledge at the disposal of the Institute by presenting their work in a seminar and by advising the Library and Photographic Collection. Fellows may teach elsewhere during tenure of the Fellowship only with the express permission of the Director. They will be required to present a brief written report at the conclusion of their appointment. A Fellowship may be terminated if the Appointing Committee is not satisfied that the conditions of the award are being met. All publications containing results of work done with the aid of a Fellowship shall include adequate acknowledgement of the fact.

Value of Fellowships

The Fellowship does not provide a stipend but gives financial support
towards living and subsistence costs in London and towards travel expenses.
The values of the fellowships (at 2013/14 rates) are: £2,500 for two
months, £3,600 for three months, £4,800 for four months. The amount of
these payments is absolute; no additional costs will be paid.

Tenure

Fellowships are tenable at the Warburg Institute. Fellows awarded two- or three-month Fellowships must hold *at least three-quarters*of their award during term-time. The approximate term dates for 2014-15 will be early October to mid-December 2014; mid-January to mid-March 2015; late April to
the end of June 2015. Applicants should specify the length of Fellowship for which they are applying (see 1 below) but do not need to state in their application when they would wish to hold a Fellowship. Those awarded three-month Fellowships will need to stay at the Institute for a full three month period, i.e. for longer than one term. Those awarded four month Fellowships must hold them in one of the following fixed periods: 1 September to Christmas; 3 January to 30 April; 1 May to 31 August.

Selection

No interviews will be held. Shortlisted candidates only will be contacted in late January 2014 to ask them to submit samples of their written work. All shortlisted candidates will then be informed of the final outcome of their application in March 2014.

Applications

There is no application form. Applications should be made by email to warburg@sas.ac.uk by 29 November 2013, and should include the following information:

1. Completed cover sheet (download cover sheet by clicking here).
2. A curriculum vitae giving full details of name, date of birth, address (including email address) and present occupation, school and university education, degrees, teaching and research experience. Please ensure that you include start and end dates for all positions/scholarships/study periods etc held.
3. An outline of proposed research (of no more than 1,000 words) and the title of your research project.
4. The names and addresses of not more than three persons who have agreed to write, without further invitation, to the Director, Professor Peter Mack,  in support of the application. These letters of reference should reach the Director by Friday, 29 November 2013. They must be signed by the referee and sent separately by the referee direct to the Director of the Institute. References may be scanned and sent by e-mail to warburg@sas.ac.uk or forwarded in hard copy by post.  It is the responsibility of candidates to ask their referees to submit references by 29 November 2013.
5. If you wish to add any additional comments you may enclose a covering letter. 

Notes

Please note: Candidates applying for more than one type of short-term Fellowship need only submit one application and should state on the cover sheet (see #1. above) for which Fellowships they wish to apply.

Please note that all application documents must be sent as a single PDF document by email to warburg@sas.ac.uk. Please name your application document as follows: Surname_ST Fellowship application, e.g. Smith_ST Fellowship application.

Candidates should NOT submit publications or written work with their application. Those shortlisted will be contacted in late January and will be asked to send material at that stage of the application process.

Closing date

Applications must be emailed to the Institute by no later than midnight on Friday, 29 November 2013.

Marsh’s Library is pleased to announce a public call for Visiting Research Fellowships of between one and three months duration. The Fellowships may be held at any point from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2016. The monthly stipend is set at €2,000 per month.

Marsh’s Library is a perfectly preserved library of the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment. The collection consists of about 30,000 printed items and 300 volumes of manuscripts, with particular strengths in British and continental European history and culture.

Marsh’s Library invites research proposals which consider our rich holdings across a number of themes. These include, but are not restricted to:

• Travel literature and ethnography
• The history of readership and ownership
• Annotations, marginalia and ephemera
• Concepts of science and scientific endeavour
• The Enlightenment
• Religious conflict, toleration and sectarianism
• The Huguenots
• French social, cultural and intellectual history

Benjamin Iveagh Library: The holdings of Marsh’s Library were augmented in 2009 with the donation by the Guinness family of the library of Benjamin, 3rd Earl of Iveagh. This important collection has great strengths in Irish history, literature and bookbinding from the eighteenth century to the late twentieth century.

The Benjamin Iveagh Library remains at the former Guinness residence of Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park. The selection committee welcomes applications which consider the Benjamin Iveagh Library either on its own terms, or in conjunction with the main holdings of Marsh’s Library.

The closing date for this call is 5:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Friday, 20 December 2013.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHN945/research-fellowships-at-marshs-library-dublin

The John Rylands Research Institute brings together experts from The University of Manchester Library and the University’s Faculty of Humanities in a unique partnership to reveal and explore hidden ideas and knowledge contained within our world-leading Special Collections. We are creating an international community of scholars across many disciplines to support outstanding research and to bring this information to the wider public in exciting and innovative ways.

The Library’s Special Collections count among the foremost repositories of primary sources in the UK, with research potential across an exceptionally broad array of disciplines. Manuscript collections span 4,000 years and over fifty languages, from Gilgamesh to Gaskell. There are hundreds of archives, with particular strengths in modern literature, Protestant nonconformism, and British economic, social and political history. Our famous rare book collections range from the pioneering days of Gutenberg and Caxton via exceptionally fine collections of early Italian printing to examples of street literature and counter-cultures. Collections of art and visual culture abound, in particular photographic collections from the inception of photography to contemporary photography. Comprehensive collections of UK and world maps include specialist holdings of topographic and thematic mapping of the British North-West, in particular Manchester.

We now invite applications from postdoctoral researchers for Visiting Fellowships within the John Rylands Research Institute. Successful applicants will be reimbursed expenses of up to £1,500 per month for up to three months, to cover travel, accommodation and living expenses during the Fellowship.

Applicants must demonstrate a serious research interest that focuses on primary source material within our Special Collections. Fellows will be encouraged to work collaboratively with curators and other subject specialists to realize the collections’ research potential, and to adopt innovative research methodologies.

Applications should consist of a 500-word project outline and a short CV (up to two pages). To be sent by email to Ms Silke Schaeper, Administrator of the John Rylands Research Institute (silke.schaeper@manchester.ac.uk) by Thursday, 31 October 2013.

Heckman Stipends, made possible by the A.A. Heckman Endowed Fund, are awarded semi-annually. Up to 10 stipends in amounts up to $2,000 are available each year. Funds may be applied toward travel to and from Collegeville, housing and meals at Saint John’s University, and costs related to duplication of HMML’s microfilm or digital resources. The Stipend may be supplemented by other sources of funding but may not be held simultaneously with another HMML Stipend or Fellowship. Holders of the Stipend must wait at least two years before applying again.

The program is specifically intended to help scholars who have not yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Applications must be submitted by November 15 for residencies between January and June of the following year.

Applicants are asked to provide:

• a letter of application with current contact information, the title of the project, length of the proposed residency at HMML and its projected dates, and the amount requested (up to $2,000)
• a description of the project to be pursued, with an explanation of how HMML’s resources are essential to its successful completion of the project; applicants are advised to be as specific as possible about which resources will be needed (maximum length: 1,000 words)
• an updated curriculum vitae
• a confidential letter of recommendation to be sent directly to HMML by an advisor, thesis director, mentor, or, in the case of postdoctoral candidates, a colleague who is a good judge of the applicant’s work 

Please send all materials as email attachments to: fellowships@hmml.org, with “Heckman Stipend” in the subject line. Questions about the Stipends may be sent to the same address.

Applications are invited for the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) Associate Investigator (AI) Scheme for 2014.

Our Associate Investigators are Australian humanities researchers working on research projects that correlate with the Centre’s research aims and goals.

Closing Date: 30 September 2013.

The ARC CHE has a core goal to provide small grant support to scholars as Associate Investigators (AIs) conducting research that focuses on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-­‐1800, or explores the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia. Topics should fit within our project areas: Meanings, Change, Performance and Shaping the Modern. Applicants from any relevant discipline are welcome.

AI Scheme Key Principles

1. Projects must investigate an aspect of the History of Emotions, 1100‐1800, or the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia, and can be for any length of time up to one year (with a possibility to renew or extend for another year on evidence of achievement of first-­year project outcomes). However, any successful applicant who, during the period of their AI status, wins national competitive grant funding for a project focusing on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-­1800, will be automatically offered AI status for the duration of that project;
2. Applicants must propose demonstrable outcomes appropriate to the nature of the project and the aims of CHE; 
3. Applicants can seek up to a maximum of $3000 per year to support project expenses. All budgets must be fully costed and evidenced in the proforma application; 
4. Successful applicants will be known for the length of their funding period as “Associate Investigators” of the Centre;
5. Successful applicants must complete a 6 month progress report and a final report one month after completion of the funding period;
6. Successful applicants must acknowledge the support of CHE in all public presentations of project materials (written, oral etc.).

Eligibility

Eligible applicants will:

1. Be resident in Australia;
2. Hold a PhD in a relevant discipline.

Current and former AIs are welcome to apply.

For further details and the application process, click here.

As part of its international research collaboration, the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions will fund excellent international Early Career Researchers in the field to visit one or more of the Australian nodes for a period of two months, to work with members of the Centre on a research program of their choice.

Since the object of the Early Career International Research Fellowships is primarily to promote collaborative research, the Fellows will not be required to undertake any undergraduate teaching, but will be required to deliver at least one paper or lecture.

The Fellow will be provided with a return airfare from their home to Australia, accommodation and a daily living allowance for their stay in Australia, and travel between Australian nodes of the Centre.

The call is open for Early Career International Research Fellowships to be undertaken during the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015.

Eligibility:

• Hold a doctorate in a relevant field of study, gained in the period 2005-2013.
• Are based at a university outside Australia (note: this includes Australian citizens currently working at universities outside Australia).

Please refer to the following website for full details and how to apply: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/get-involved/early-career-researchers.aspx

The closing date for applications is Friday 30 August 2013.

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion is now issuing a call for applications for Early Career International Research Fellowships, to be taken over the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015. Closing date: 30 August 2013.

As part of its international research collaboration, CHE will fund excellent international Early Career Researchers in the field to visit one or more of the Australian nodes for a period of two months, to work with members of the Centre on a research program of their choice.

Since the object of the Early Career International Research Fellowships is primarily to promote collaborative research, the Fellows will not be required to undertake any undergraduate teaching, but will be required to deliver at least one paper or lecture.

The Fellow will be provided with a return airfare from their home to Australia, accommodation and a daily living allowance for their stay in Australia, and travel between Australian nodes of the Centre.

For more information, click here.

The National Library of Australia offers annual fellowships to established researchers and writers. Established by the Council of the National Library of Australia in 1983 as the National Library Fellowships, the first Fellows commenced their research at the Library in 1984. The fellowships were renamed in honour of Sir Harold White CBE (1905-1992), the first National Librarian, in 1985. The fellowships scheme aims to promote the Library as a centre of scholarly activity and research, encourage scholarly and literary use of the Library’s collections and production of publications arising from that scholarship, and to promote the Library’s rich and varied collections. Four to seven fellowships, of periods from three to six months, are awarded annually.

Fellowships are open to established Australian and international researchers and creative writers in any discipline in which the Library has strong collections. Successful applicants are generally senior scholars or writers with a strong publication track record, including publication of full length monographs. Fellowships are not intended for post-doctoral or early career researchers. More than 100 Fellowships have been awarded to scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, and to several award winning Australian creative writers, including Frank Moorhouse, Sara Dowse and David Foster.

Fellowships are not provided to assist with the completion of degree studies and applications from currently enrolled students will not be considered.  Fellowships are awarded once only to each individual; subsequent applications from previous recipients will not be considered.

Fellows are provided with a return economy airfare to Canberra, an honorarium of $850 per week for the period of the Fellowship in Canberra, use of a fully equipped office, 24 hour access to the Library, and free photocopying and interlibrary loans.

All fellows are required to take up their Fellowships during the calendar year for which the Fellowship is awarded and to stay in Canberra for a continuous block of at least three months, spending the majority of their Fellowship time at the Library.  Fellows give a public lecture and a staff talk towards the end of their tenure, and provide the Library with a brief report on their research outcomes and their experience of the Library’s services.  The Library also asks Fellows – where appropriate – to give the Library the first opportunity to publish the results of their research.

Applications for 2014 Fellowships are now open. Applications close on 30 April 2013 (17:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time).  Applicants will be notified of results by the end of August 2013.

For further information and to apply, visit: http://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/harold-white-fellowships

The Morton W. Bloomfield Fund at Harvard University, in conjunction with the Medieval Doctoral Conference of the Department of English, invites applications to the Bloomfield Visiting Scholar Program.

The program is intended to assist scholars wishing to conduct research at Harvard over approximately a four-week period during the regular academic year, in any of the fields associated with Morton W. Bloomfield: particularly Old and Middle English, the history of English, the history of Christian thought, and medieval Jewish studies. We offer $3000 in travel and accommodation subsidy for one or more selected scholars in these fields; we may be able to offer a further travel subsidy for fellows travelling from outside North America.

Bloomfield fellows will give a presentation of their work at the Medieval Doctoral Conference and might also be asked to meet with graduate students or attend a student seminar as a temporary member of our community. Harvard’s academic year runs from early September to early December, and from early February to the end of April. Although applications are open to anyone, preference will be given to younger scholars who might benefit from access to Harvard’s resources.

To apply, please send a brief curriculum vitae, the title of a possible talk, a one-page project description, and a covering note detailing your proposed travel plans (offering alternative sets of dates if possible) to: Daniel Donoghue, Department of English, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. by April 30, 2013.

For more information contact Daniel Donoghue: dgd@wjh.harvard.edu