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Brill Fellowship 2015 – Call For Applications

Since 2006 publishing house Brill, the oldest publishing house in the Netherlands, has funded the accommodation of one or two so-called ‘Brill fellows’ with the Scaliger Institute. The Brill fellow carries out research in the Special Collections of the University Library within one of the publishing areas of Brill in the Humanities. The Brill fellow is expected to contribute to the activities of the Scaliger Institute, and to give a public lecture. If the opportunity presents itself, Brill is prepared to publish the lecture in co-operation with the Scaliger Institute.

Conditions Brill Fellowship

The applications for a Brill fellowship have to comply with a number of conditions:

  • A research proposal must be submitted in which the relationship between the proposed research and the primary sources, which are to be researched and consulted in the department Special Collections, is specified
  • A list of manuscripts, editions of other items to be consulted in the library, supplied with shelf marks
  • A start and end date of the proposed research
  • A curriculum vitae
  • A list of relevant publications
  • Two academic references

The deadline for the Brill Fellowship 2015 is 1 April, 2015.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/scaliger-institute/research/brill-fellowship.html

University of Leeds 110 Anniversary Research Scholarships – Call For Applications

As part of the 110 Anniversary Scholarships, the School of History and Institute for Medieval Studies is offering up to 5 fully funded doctoral scholarships to form a student cohort exploring how history and historians construct narratives of the past with a mind on the future.

Theme: Constructing the Past, Constructing the Future

Arguably all history is concerned with this endeavour but increasingly both historical scholarship and the heritage industry have become more self-conscious in addressing the constructed nature of historical inquiry. Research into the methodologies, ethics and political imperatives of the multiple agents and makers of history has shown how historical narratives both reflect and shape contemporary concerns.

More information and eligibility requirements can be found here or on the University website.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 18 February 2015 (23:59 UK time).

Leverhulme Doctoral Studentship: Women’s Work in Early Modern England – Call For Applications

The College of Humanities at the University of Exeter is delighted to be offering an excellent funding opportunity for exceptional researchers within the area of the History of Women’s Work:

  • One Doctoral Studentship funded by the Leverhulme Trust: all tuition fees paid and an annual maintenance grant for three years. The maintenance grant will be £13,863 per year.

Project Description

The successful applicant will work with Professor Jane Whittle on a Leverhulme Trust funded project on Women’s Work in Rural England 1500-1700 from September 2015.

The PhD project is specifically to examine women’s waged work using household and farm accounts from the counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will involve the detailed contextual study of at least 15 households and the workers they employed.

In their covering letter, applicants should demonstrate their expertise in early modern social or economic history or a closely related field, including their experience in archival research, and describe their interest in gender history.

The successful applicant will work as part of a team with Professor Whittle (the principal investigator) and Dr Mark Hailwood (research fellow) who will be collecting data on women’s work activities from court documents in a complementary part of the project.

Application deadline: 1 March 2015

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=1741

2 MA Positions @ University of Otago: Early Modern Theatre and Skill – Call For Applications

Applications are now being accepted for two Marsden-funded MA scholarships on the topic of Early Modern Theatre and Skill. Candidates will write a thesis under the supervision of Professor Evelyn Tribble at the University of Otago. Scholarships are for one year, include full fees for domestic students (New Zealand and Australian) and carry a stipend of $13,000NZD.

Interested students should write to Professor Tribble: evelyn.tribble@otago.ac.nz with a brief introduction and a possible topic.

Further information about the Otago Research Master’s is available at the following links:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/study/masters/index.html
http://www.otago.ac.nz/englishlinguistics/english/postgraduate/index.html

Department of Medieval Studies – CEU Budapest

The Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University (Budapest) offers two-year MA and PhD programs, coordinated with the Bologna process requirements and accredited in Hungary (and accepted throughout Europe) as well as in the US; and a one-year MA accredited in the United States. You can find further details at: https://medievalstudies.ceu.hu.

CEU offers full or partial tuition waivers and various other types of financial support on a competitive basis. For an update on recent policies please visit: http://www.ceu.hu/admissions/financialaid.

The Department, together with the department of History, hosts numerous research units, among them the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (http://cems.ceu.hu/sems), the Center for Religious Studies (http://religion.ceu.hu), the Jewish Studies Program (http://web.ceu.hu/jewishstudies/), and offers a number of specializations like: the Specialization in Religious Studies (SRS), Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies Specialization (JSS), the Political Thoughts etc. For a complete list of specializations please check the departmental website from November onwards. In order to render the work of students more effective, the Source Language Teaching Group offers Latin and Greek courses and on demand Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Armenian, Old Georgian, Syriac, Russian, Ottoman, Turkish, Old Church Slavonic and Persian.

The new two-year interdisciplinary and interdepartmental MA program in Cultural Heritage Studies (https://medievalstudies.ceu.hu/Culturalheritagestudies) is coordinated by the department but offered together with other CEU units such as the Departments of History, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Environmental Sciences and Policy, and Legal Studies and Public Policy, plus the CEU Business School. It focuses on developing aptitudes for the critical assessment of tangible structures and objects such as buildings, monuments, and works of art, as well as intangible heritage like traditions, languages, and knowledge (see also the attached flyer of the program).

The department also participates in the international ERASMUS exchange program, which offers a 3-12 month long study abroad for PHD and two-year MA students and an internship for the one-year MA students. For more information please visit: http://acro.ceu.hu/erasmus-for-ceu-students.

For undergraduate students who are interested in the program CEU organizes an interdisciplinary conference on Empire and Nations between August 6 and 9, 2015. For more information please visit https://medievalstudies.ceu.hu/events.

You can also get a glimpse of their activities through the Medieval Studies Department’s CEU Medieval Radio (http://medievalradio.org), which is a twenty-four-hour webcast dedicated to medieval and early modern history and culture, as well as pre-1700 music. CEU Medieval Radio is web-casting interviews, talk shows, and lectures by resident and guest scholars and is devoted to authentic medieval and Renaissance music.

 

University of Auckland: Funded MA Opportunities – “Shakespeare’s Theatre Games”

The University of Auckland, School of Humanities
Two MA scholarships in Drama 2015

Shakespeare’s Theatre Games
Supervisor: Prof. Tom Bishop

Seeking applicants for TWO (2) MA scholarships in Drama in 2015 on some topic related to early modern (1500-1642) dramatic performance practice.

Applicants will work on researching and exploring the work of early modern performers, producing a research portfolio of written and performance work to be decided in consultation. The project will include active performance and a full-production programme working on early modern drama both solo and with other students. Choice of performed work will be made in consultation. Possibilities for written work include:

  • the history of some aspect of early modern English performance
  • clowning and comic skills in sixteenth century English drama
  • the history of a key individual performer or company in the early modern English theatre

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the supervisor in advance of the deadline to discuss their proposed research.

The scholarships cover:

  • fees at the University of Auckland for full-time enrolment in the MA in Drama
  • a tax-free stipend totalling $16,000 for the year (to be paid out in monthly intervals across the period of enrolment)
  • practical training and production work with Dr. Ira Seidenstein, world-renowned clown teacher and mentor.

Applications are due by email to Tom Bishop (t.bishop@auckland.ac.nz) no later than 30 November 2014. The successful candidates will be notified by 7 December 2014. The successful candidate will have until 14 December to take up the scholarship offer and must be fully enrolled in the MA programme in Drama at the University of Auckland no later than 1 March, 2015.

Applications must include the following:

  1. A copy of the applicant’s official academic record (to be verified by the University of Auckland once the application is successful)
  2. A letter applying for the place including a description of areas of interest and experience and plans for research and performance
  3. A letter of reference in support of the application, sent confidentially to the supervisor by the referee (by post or email)

Applicants should note the following:

  1. Applications will be assessed on the candidate’s academic record, experience with drama and research potential, and the quality of the referee report. The supervisor may request an interview with applicants by Skype, telephone or in person
  2. Applicants may receive the scholarship as soon as they are fully enrolled in the MA programme at the University of Auckland. They are expected to be resident in Auckland for the duration of their enrolment, aside from any agreed periods of research travel.
  3. The scholarship is offered for a period of one year. Applicants are expected to have completed within this period. If additional time is required, the applicant will have to bear any additional costs
  4. In order to take up the offer, the successful applicant must meet all requirements for admission into an MA in Drama at the University of Auckland. The scholarship will not be paid out until the successful applicant is fully enrolled in the MA
  5. To remain eligible for the scholarship, the successful applicant must fulfil all the requirements of on-going enrolment in an MA in Drama at the University of Auckland. The scholarship may be terminated if the applicant does not make satisfactory progress
  6. As per University of Auckland policy, the amount of additional work the applicant may undertake either inside or outside the University shall not exceed a total of 500 hours in the scholarship year
  7. The scholarship cannot be held concurrently with any other scholarship either from within or outside the University of Auckland
  8. The scholarship may be terminated if the applicant fails to meet the above conditions.

For further information, please contact:

Tom Bishop
Email: t.bishop@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 87841.

Univ. of Groningen – Two PhD positions: “Early Modern Social and Economic History”

Applications are invited for two three-year fellowships (36 months) to undertake doctorates in the context of ForSEAdiscovery, a large research project funded by the European Union (Call identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN) with fourteen participating academic institutions from nine countries (see forseadiscovery.eu). Two PhD candidates will be based at the University of Groningen.

ForSEAdiscovery (in full: Forest Resources for Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery) focuses on the construction of ocean-going ships of the Iberian Empires during the Age of Discovery and European Expansion. Large-scale shipbuilding made unprecedented demands on Iberian forests for the supply of construction timber. Forestry and sea power became inextricably linked, creating new geopolitical tensions, alliances and forest regulations. Key questions in this context are: could Iberian forest resources sustain the increasing demand of sound timber, or was the wood imported from elsewhere? If so, how were the trade networks organized? And did the lack of raw material force the technological changes that occurred in shipbuilding in the 16th century, or were they a result of exchange between Mediterranean and Atlantic shipbuilding traditions?

The candidates will work in an international and interdisciplinary environment involving regular participation in workshops and courses abroad.

In the course of the fellowship the candidates will be seconded for a few weeks at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal, and at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain.

The candidates will use the Danish Sound Toll Registers and Dutch sources such as the Amsterdam notarial archives. Alternatively, we welcome the study of similar sources kept in archives in other countries, for instance in the Baltic and North Sea regions, depending on the applicant’s language skills.

Applicants are requested to briefly outline their specific research proposals. For further details see below under ‘application.’

One PhD candidate will:

  • collect in the historiography, existing databases and archival sources quantitative information concerning the timber trade and transport between Northern Europe and Atlantic Iberia (1500-1800) and analyze and explain that information
  • produce (1) a database containing information about the volume of timber trade and transport between Northern Europe and Atlantic Iberia (1500-1800) and about Northern European areas supplying timber for shipbuilding in Atlantic Iberia (1500-1800) and (2) a dissertation in which this information is studied

The other PhD candidate will:

  • collect in the historiography, existing databases and archival sources information about networks of merchants involved in the timber trade and transport between Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula serving the Atlantic Iberian shipbuilding industry (1500-1800) and analyze and explain the mechanisms of these networks
  • produce (1) a database containing information about the merchant networks in the timber trade and transport between Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula serving the Atlantic Iberian shipbuilding industry (1500-1800) and about Northern European areas supplying shipbuilding timber to Atlantic Iberia (1500-1800) and (2) a dissertation in which this information is studied

Qualifications

  • MA degree in Early Modern (Economic or Social) History, History of the European Expansion, Global History or World History
  • languages: English is indispensable, Dutch an asset, a basic working knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese useful, any other language necessary depending on the sources you propose to use
  • basic ability to read early modern handwriting
  • ability to work independently and as part of a team

In accordance with the criteria set out by Marie Curie Innovative Doctoral Program, the candidates must not have resided or carried out main activity (work, study, etc.) in The Netherlands for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to taking up the fellowship. At the time of recruitment the candidates must not yet have been awarded the doctoral degree and must not have worked for longer than four years in scientific research.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview?details=00347-02S00047TP

Applications close 3 October 2014.

Max Planck Institute – PhD in History Scholarships

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin offer six scholarships for a PhD in History at the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies (IMPRS Moral Economies).

The PhD program of the IMPRS Moral Economies supports research projects that investigate the values, emotions, and habits that informed and inspired modern social formations, particularly in Europe, North America, and South Asia. The relationship between modern history of emotions and the development, consolidation and transformation of morals stands at the center of the research focus.

Highly motivated M. A. (respectively M. Phil. or equivalent) graduates in History or a related field (e.g. Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Literature) with an outstanding academic record and a strong interest in the relevant topics are encouraged to apply.

Application deadline: December 1, 2014.

Please see www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-mems for details regarding the application process and admission. For further queries please contact Monika Freier at moral.economies@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

The PhD scholarships will commence on October 1st, 2015. Candidates admitted to the IMPRS Moral Economies receive a monthly grant to cover their living expenses, presently set at 1,365€. The funding is initially for two years, with consecutive extensions up to a maximum of four years, pending successful progress evaluations.

John Rylands Research Institute Scholarships

The John Rylands Research Institute has just announced full funding (at home / EU level) for two PhD scholarships in areas related to the strengths of the John Rylands Library’s special collections. The Library has particularly rich collections of incunabula and early modern religious printed texts (amongst other areas of strength). I would be very happy to talk to interested applicants or to direct them towards appropriate colleagues.

Full information on the new PhD scholarships can be found here:
http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate-research-funding

Applicant who wish to find out more about the collections will find the following A-Z list helpful
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/searchresources/guidetospecialcollections/atoz

Closing date for applications: 1 June, 2014

New Post-Baccalaureate Program in Post-Classical Latin UCLA 2014-2015

The UCLA Division of Humanities, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS), and the Department of Classics are pleased to announce the award of a three-year grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the preparation and training of young scholars in post-classical Latin for graduate programs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The post-baccalaureate program in Latin is intended for students who have completed B.A. degrees and who wish to pursue Ph.D. programs requiring study and proficiency in post-classical Latin. A cohort of up to five students will be chosen each year by an international application process. All fees and a stipend of $18,000 will be provided to allow the admitted students to spend a year at UCLA participating in the post-classical Latin curriculum as well as taking existing courses in Classical Latin and, more broadly, in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The program is intended to prepare students for successful applications to top-ranked Ph.D. programs.

The Department intends to offer a full year of coursework in post-classical Latin at the undergraduate level in 2014-15, in addition to graduate seminars in related areas of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Inquiries should be addressed to Professor Robert Gurval, Director of the Mellon initiative ( gurval@humnet.ucla.edu).