The call for 2013 ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Associate Investigators is now open.

Call Opens: 15 August 2012
Call Closes: 30 September 2012

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 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.

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. CHE’s website (www.historyofemotions.org.au) offers examples of the range of research already being undertaken.

Eligible applicants will:

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

For full details and to apply go to: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/get-involved/associate-investigators.aspx

This will be of interest to any Australian based researcher, whose work involves the study of medieval or early modern Japan:

The National Library offers annual Japan Study Grants under the auspices of the Harold S. Williams Trust Fund. The Japan Study Grants were established to support interstate scholars and researchers whose work would benefit from access to the Japan-related collections of the National Library. Grants are offered for periods of up to four weeks commencing in January each year.

The closing date for applications is 30 September.

Who can apply?

Japan Study Grants are open to postgraduate students, academic researchers, teaching staff and independent scholars in any discipline, based outside the Australian Capital Territory or Queanbeyan who can demonstrate a need to use the Library’s Japanese or Japan-related collections for their research. Priority consideration will be given to applicants from centres where there are few or no library resources in the Japanese language. Japan Study Grants are open to adults of any age and citizenship but applicants must be resident in Australia.

What assistance is offered?

Grant holders will receive an honorarium of $1,000 per week to cover accommodation and living costs in Canberra, together with a return economy class air fare or equivalent for travel between the grant holder’s home within Australia to Canberra. They will be provided with a desk in the Asian Collections reading room, access to the book stacks and free photocopying. International travel will not be funded.

Selection criteria:

The principle selection criteria are:

• Academic record of the applicant as shown in application
• Referee reports.

Priority consideration will be given to candidates:

• who are based in centres where there are few or no library resources in the Japanese language
• who can demonstrate a need to use the Library’s Japanese or Japan-related collections for their research
• whose proposed study is best able to be supported by the National Library’s Japanese and Japan-related collections.

For further information about the Japan Study Grants and to access the application form, see the Japan Study Grants page at the National Library of Australia website: http://www.nla.gov.au/japanese/study-grants

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarship

Deadline for submissions: Monday 23 April.

Are you studying Shakespeare at college, university, or for leisure? Are you going to be using the archives or library of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust? You might be interested in applying for the Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarship (or recommending it to a friend).

This annual scholarship of £1,000 will be awarded to ‘a worthy Shakespearian currently pursuing a Ph.D. or similar study, who pledges to produce an original, publishable article on a previously approved literary, historical, or biographical topic about William Shakespeare (as opposed to character analysis or authorship studies) from The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library or Archives, approved by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s assigned authorities, within two years of the accepted funds. The intent of the award is to inspire, stimulate, and promote archival scholarship.’ Think of it as an opportunity to come to Stratford and spending a few weeks working in our reading room at the Shakespeare Centre. Since our library and archive include at least 55,000 books devoted to Shakespeare’s work, life, and times, and hundreds of thousands of documents relating to the genesis and evolution of Stratford-upon-Avon 400 years before and 400 years after Shakespeare, there’s plenty to immerse yourself in! And then there is the archive of The Royal Shakespeare Company from 1879 to the present day, and other special theatre collections, too.

If you are interested in applying, you should submit a letter of intent that states what your project is, how it relates to the collections of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, what you expect to accomplish, how you expect to pursue it, some details about your own personal credentials (previous publications, experience with historical documents, for example your ability to read Elizabethan handwriting, etc.), and the names of the principal archives and libraries where you are expecting to work. The scholarship wants to award work which is novel, original, enlightening, or biographically and historically exciting.

Send your letter of application to education1@shakespeare.org.uk, clearly marked The Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarship. The deadline for submissions is Monday 23 April. The winner will be informed on Tuesday 15 May.

More details about the scholarship can be found at the following entry at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust blog, Blogging Shakespeare: http://bloggingshakespeare.com/louis-marder.

S. Ernest Sprott Fellowship
Prize value: $38,296
Closing Date: Monday 16 April 2012

The S. Ernest Sprott Fellowship is open for award annually to an outstanding scholar, who must be an Australian citizen of no more than forty-five (45) years of age at the time of the award. The Fellowship is for scholarly study outside Australia, intended to lead to a book relating to dramatic or non-dramatic English literature of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.

The donor, the late Samuel Ernest Sprott, who died on 20 May 2009, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. He was an academic in the department of English at Dalhousie University, Canada, from 1958 to 1985, and for almost 25 years after his retirement he kept an office at Dalhousie University and continued his research in early modern literature (most notably in Shakespeare studies). He was best known for his work on John Milton, notably Milton’s Art of Prosody, his first book, which appeared in nine editions between 1953 and 1978, and John Milton, A Maske: the Earlier Versions. His book Suicide: The English Debate from Donne to Hume was published in 1961. He also published a collection of poems in 1955.

Eligibility

The fellowship is open to applicants who meet the following criteria:

• hold Australian citizenship
• are no more than 45 years of age at the time of the award
• can demonstrate an outstanding record of scholarship
• can outline a program of scholarly study outside Australia, leading to a book relating to dramatic or non-dramatic English literature of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.

It is expected that the successful candidate would fulfil the requirements of this fellowship in a full-time capacity for the term of at least 12 months. It is also recommended that the applicant seek some kind of formal affiliation with a relevant library or university.

Fellowship funds will be paid in quarterly instalments providing that the committee is satisfied with the progress of the candidate who will submit quarterly reports.

Applicants can only apply online for this scholarship.

You must supply the following documents to support your application:

• A brief proposal detailing the intended scholarly studies outside Australia on dramatic or non-dramatic English literature of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries (no more than 1 page)
• A short budget, including estimates of travel and living expenses (no more than 1 page)
• A curriculum vitae (including present position and publications) (no more than 2 pages)
• Certified copy of Australian Citizenship (Passport, Birth Certificate, Citizenship Certificate)
• Two (2) academic references
• Further supporting information that may assist the committee in making its decision.

For more information about the S. Ernest Sprott Fellowship and to apply online, please visit: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships-prizes/current-students/s-ernest-sprott-fellowship.html

KITLV post-doctoral fellowship
Medical History in Early-Modern Southeast Asia

Closing date for applications: 1 May 2012

Research focus

KITLV has established a scholarship for the study of Early-Modern Southeast Asia (EMSA), which is roughly defined as the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the Age of Modern Imperialism, around 1870. KITLV is looking for a historian, specialized in Southeast Asian medical history, who will participate in the KITLV project History of Health, Disease and Medicine in Southeast Asia, starting 1 July 2012.

Terms and conditions

• KITLV invites scholars who have obtained a PhD to apply for this Postdoc position.
• The beneficiary of an EMSA scholarship is expected to conduct his/ her project primarily at KITLV, and to prepare a substantial publication.
• The fellowship is tenable for three months for Dutch scholars or six months for non-Dutch scholars.
• In principle, candidates from outside the Netherlands will be expected to reside in the Netherlands during a period of 4 to 6 months.

Supervision will be provided by Prof. Peter Boomgaard, senior researcher KITLV.

Grant

The fellowship amounts to:

• three months at € 3,000 (maximum gross salary) for Dutch scholars (appointment).
• six months at € 2,500 (stipend) per month and an economy class return ticket for non-Dutch scholars to KITLV, Leiden, the Netherlands.

All expenditure will have to be covered from this sum, including local transport, housing, insurance, and research costs. The fellow will be given research and office facilities at KITLV, will have access to the collections, and is expected to participate in the researchers’ seminars.

Invitation to apply

Applications for the 2012 scholarship should include:
• A Curriculum Vitae
• A brief (2-3 page) research proposal
• A proposed timetable

Closing date for application

Applications should be sent before 1 May 2012 to Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt, Head of Research at KITLV (schultenordholt@kitlv.nl).

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The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship

Deadline For Applications: 1 March, 2012

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference and the Folger Fellowships Program proudly announce the creation of a co-sponsored, short-term Fellowship. This Fellowship is designed to serve the members of the SCSC for whom the Folger’s rich collections are essential. This is a two-month Fellowship for research on a topic appropriate to the collections.

The Fellow will be awarded a two-month Fellowship to be taken at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The award carries a stipend of $5000. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. at the time of application and must be a member in good standing of SCSC. Applicants must submit a cover letter, a 1,000-word description of your research project, and 4-page curriculum vitae.  Three letters of support complete the application and may be sent via regular mail or as PDFs email to: conference@sixteenthcentury.org. Please do NOT send portfolio letters.

The application deadline for 2012-13 short-term Fellowships is 1 March 2012.

Apply directly to SCSC:

Donald J. Harreld
Exec. Dir., SCSC
Department of History
Brigham Young University
2130 JFSB
Provo, UT 84660.

The John F. Benton Award

This award, named in honor of its progenitor, John F. Benton, MAP President 1982-1984, provides travel funds for all members of the Medieval Association of the Pacific–independent medievalists and graduate students in particular–who might not otherwise receive support from institutions.

The award may be used to defray costs connected with delivering a paper at any conference, especially for MAP conferences, or connected to scholarly research. Up to three awards will be presented each year, for $400 apiece. Applications should include a one-page vita, an abstract of a paper submitted to the conference, and a photocopy of the Call for Papers or conference announcement; if the application is for travel to research, it should include a one-page vita, and a letter outlining the research project. Send applications via email attachment by January 5, 2012 to the vice president of the Association, Anita Obermeier: AObermei@unm.edu

For more information about the award and MAP visit the grants page at the MAP website.