The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is pleased to be able to offer travel grants of between $200 and $1000 for scholars from Eurasia studying women’s and gender studies, who are presenting papers at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) meetings, the AWSS meetings, or the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) meetings.
Requests to support travel to other conferences will be considered if funds are available. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Scholars should complete the information listed below and submit a budget and a current CV with their application. All recipients of awards are required to submit a short (maximum 250 words) report on their grant activity within 30 days after the event for which travel was supported.
IU Bloomington announces new Eastman Residency in Martha’s Vineyard
Deadline to apply: ROLLING
An historic Martha’s Vineyard property once owned by prolific American writer and prominent political activist Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969) will soon be a place for Indiana University Bloomington faculty in the arts and humanities to write and create. The house was a vibrant gathering place for innovative writers, artists, and thinkers; it will return to a space for artists, creative writers, and humanists on the Bloomington campus who may apply for an Eastman Fellowship for up to one month of residency in this quiet and serene location to complete books or other projects. In addition, the renovated house may be used for small retreats and conferences in the arts and humanities.
Students can study abroad in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, or Kyrgyzstan in a range of programs covering subjects related to the location (e.g. Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Central Asian Studies, Art, Politics, etc.). Internships are also available, with particularly wide opportunities in Warsaw and Kyiv.
Jewish Studies Conference Funding for Graduate Students, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University
Deadline to apply: ROLLING
Applications should be submitted to: Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker, Assistant Director Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University Global and International Studies Building 355 N. Eagleson Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-1105 clipsonw@indiana.edu; FAX (812) 855-4314.
Jewish Studies Conference Funding for Undergraduate Students, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University
Deadline to apply: ROLLING
For Jewish Studies Major, Certificate, and Hebrew Minor Students up to $500
No later than one month before the funds are needed and preferably earlier, an applicant must provide: 1) a one page statement describing the conference/program and explaining how it will contribute to the applicant’s Jewish Studies education and/or Jewish Studies career objectives; 2) a reference from a Jewish Studies faculty member (can be sent separately); and 3) a budget, explaining what the funds will be used for. Please submit statement, reference, and budget to the Jewish Studies Program (Global and International Studies Building-4E, 4023, 812-855-0453) or email to clipsonw@indiana.edu.
NEW RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY, 2024-2025
The Center for Jewish History is proud to announce the creation of an expanded fellowship program. The program features four new endowed 10-month fellowships in addition to one existing 12-month fellowship and two short-term fellowships. The seven fellowships constitute the nucleus of a projected Institute for Advanced Jewish Historical Research.
The fellowships will support original research using the collections of the Center’s five partners: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute. Preference will be given to those candidates who draw on the archival and library resources of more than one partner institution. The fellowships are open to a range of senior scholars, early career scholars, and advanced graduate students who have completed all the requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree apart from the dissertation.
Fellows are encouraged to spend at least three days per week in residence in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room using archival and library resources. Fellows are expected to participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship Seminar Program, attend all the meetings of the fellowship program cohort, present a pre-circulated paper to be discussed at one of those meetings, deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research conducted at CJH, and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing their experience as a Center Fellow.
For a complete list of available fellowship programs, please click below to view descriptions and application guidelines. Questions about the fellowship program may be directed to fellowships@cjh.org.
The schedule for the application process is as follows:
All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
Applications are to be submitted to fellowships@cjh.org
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University invites expressions of interest from outstanding candidates who wish to apply for a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through Durham University.
Candidates are required to have sought the support of a prospective academic mentor in the School and have supplied them with an up-to-date CV and 2-page (max) draft research proposal prior to submitting a full draft application. Working in conjunction with their mentor, candidates should check their eligibility to apply.
Candidates must request and complete Durham’s internal application form, available by contacting the Arts and Humanities Research Team (artsandhumanities.researchteam@durham.ac.uk). The deadline for submitting internal applications to Durham is 12 noon, Wednesday 15 November 2023.
Applicants must either hold a degree (any degree) from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship or at the time of the application deadline must hold an academic position in the UK (e.d. fixed-term lectureship, fellowship) which commenced no less than 4 months prior to the closing date. Further information on the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, including details of eligibility criteria, can be found at: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/early-career-fellowships.
Eastern Europe History / Studies, European History / Studies, Human Rights, Modern European History / Studies, Social History / Studies
In the context of the current invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing tragic war, many analysts have claimed that we face the real end of (or the confirmation) of the Cold War and its dichotomies. What we witness would be the outright confrontation between civic liberalism and autocracy, or the “West” and the “East”. According to Stephen Kotkin, even if post-communist societies have changed, a military-police dictatorship in some former satellite countries is still fighting a “West” seen as enemy, and this has the reverse consolidating effect on the West which re-emerged and stood up against Putin.
We invite historians, researchers, political scientists, sociologists and socially engaged artists to reflect on the lessons from/of the Cold War by taking cues from the Blinken OSA Archivum collections. The applicants are encouraged to reflect on the connections as well as on the differences between current times and the past by following some recommended sub-topics listed below.
The importance of homegrown dissident cultures of truth telling and the related counterpropaganda in minimizing them as foreign agents.
Histories of Soviet invasions(1956, 1968, 1979), their stakes, misunderstandings, and miscalculations.
The political instrumentalization and hollowing of concepts, such as “fascism”, “Nazism,” and “imperialism”.
The demonizing methods of propaganda (as not just an alternative regime of facts, but as a stigmatizing tool).
The power of stories: revisionist and public usages of history for political ends.
The relationship between foreign policy, strategic security, and energy relations (at global scale, too).
Lessons from the international security crises (Berlin in 1961, Cuba in 1962, the Sino Soviet split).
Informational asymmetries (cultures of secrecy and obscure decision-making versus cultures of openness and liberalism).
Histories and efficacy of human rights advocacy with regards to abusive regimes.
Post-’89 transitions and their connections to the Cold War (reproduction of secret police networks and the new oligarchies, different understandings of the role of State, the subordination of the legal system, etc.).
Conditions for the maintenance/disruptions of autocratic regimes (the role of ideology, political patronage, corruption, etc.).
Retroactive assessment of international responses to political and security crises: the role of appeasement, of “stability”.
Uncovering the roots of local initiatives for autonomy and reform of politics and society in the Soviet Union, based on the extensive holdings in the Blinken OSA Archivum of Russian regional and provincial newspapers during the late perestroika period. (Work with Professor Rieber, author of Stalin as Warlord (Yale University Press, 2022)).
Un/silencing suppressed voices: detecting instances of epistemic violence/harm and recreating narratives of people pushed at the margins of society (ethnic, religious or sexual minorities, people with disabilities) in Cold War and transitional archives.
We recommend you refer to one of the topics in your application. Please also mention the specific collections you would like to consult. We also suggest possible collections to be investigated, such as the research corpora of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, Records of Index on Censorship, Records of the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Programs, Soviet Propaganda Film collection, Records related to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Records of the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, etc.
Blinken OSA Archivum collections and research tips
The archival collection and research papers of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty constitute the most comprehensive Cold War and post-Cold War archive about the problems of Communism and its aftermath in the early years of post-socialist and post-communist transition. The collection offers important tips both about facts as well as about their conceptualizations from 1949 to 1994. Scholars particularly interested in the former Soviet Union as well as in the aftermath of its dissolution can find relevant the rich collection of sub-fonds Soviet Red Archives, Samizdat Archives, and the Soviet Research Department of the RFE/RL Research Institute (to be compared with the RFE/ RL Russian broadcast recordings). These sub-fonds and series allowed the radios to extract reliable data from the massive body of media produced by the Soviet republics; the Western Press Archives contain the Western representations about the phenomena in the communist bloc and beyond it, about the transition in the 1990s. This archival collection also holds several series of biographical files about major historical figures, dissidents, leaders of national minorities, and those persecuted by the political regimes of that time.
We also suggest many other possible archival collections to be investigated, such as the records of Index on Censorship, the Soviet Propaganda Film collection, the records related to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the documents of the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, the records of the Forced Migration projects at the Open Society Institute, the records of the International Human Rights Law Institute relating to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the records of the American Refugee Committee Balkan’s Programs, the Gary Filerman Collection on Hungarian Refugees from 1956, etc.
Blinken OSA Archivum research program
The current call is part of a reflexive-research program at Blinken OSA Archivum interested in connecting past issues related to oppressive regimes, censorship, violence and information manipulation to current phenomena. We would like to assess the potential of a genealogical project linking the contemporary epistemic and political crisis of democracy to past modes of inquiry and activism.
Admission:
We seek to promote exchanges among people with backgrounds in the arts, humanities and social sciences in the way they think through and about archives while being concerned with current problems. From this point of view, the invitation is not only addressed to scholars working specifically on Cold War topics, but to all those interested in theories of knowledge, who would use Blinken OSA Archivum documents as props for larger reflections and activist concerns.
Fellowship requirements and Blinken OSA Archivum support
While working on their own subject, fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with Blinken OSA Archivum researchers and to transform their archival investigation into a full research experience. The fellows are invited to give a final presentation about their research findings at Blinken OSA Archivum and the ways in which the documents were relevant to their research. The presentations are organized within the Visegrad Scholarship at Blinken OSA Archivum lecture series and as such are open for the general public.
Blinken OSA Archivum academic and archival staff will assist the fellows in their investigations, facilitate contact with the CEU community, and grant access to the CEU library. Besides its archival analogue collections, Blinken OSA Archivum can also offer access to unique, audio-visual materials related to documentary practices, a special collection of RFE (anti)propaganda books and a growing collection on digital humanities, human rights, archival theory and philosophy.
About the Fellowship:
The twenty grants of 3000 euro each are designed to provide access to the archives for scholars, artists, and journalists, and to cover travel to and from Budapest, a modest subsistence, and accommodation for a research period of eight weeks. Stipends for shorter periods are pro-rated.
Applicants, preferably but not exclusively, from a V4 country, may be researchers, students after their second degree carrying out research, or artists, journalists, academics, or both.
Scholars at risk from war zones as well as refugees of conscience (scholars fleeing authoritarian regimes) are especially invited to apply.
Submission deadlines for the 2023/24 academic year
November 15, 2023.
Assessment:
The Selection Committee will evaluate proposals on the strength of the professional quality and novelty of the research proposal, its relevance to the chosen topic and the involvement of the Blinken OSA Archivum holdings in the research. In the case of equal scores those from V4 countries have an advantage. The artists submitting proposals are kindly required to frame their application as research-based projects as well, carefully indicating the collections they will rely on. The artistic proposals will be assessed according to their merit, originality, timeliness as well as their feasibility (with regards to their reliance on available Blinken OSA Archivum collections). Blinken OSA Archivum can only offer conditions for the realization of artistic research, not for production.
Application procedure:
Please submit the following to Blinken OSA Archivum (in one merged pdf)
Application letter in English (should specify expected period of stay and preferred dates and how you learnt about the scholarship (through which courses, instructors, social media groups or pages, websites, academic platforms, Blinken OSA Archivum public programs/ projects etc. you were informed about this scholarship).
Please note that the Archive’s Research Room is closed during the Christmas period, and the research stay must end on the last day of the given academic year, July 31.
Research description/plan in English (about 800 words and should include the following: introduction, presentation of the stage of research, literature on the subject, preliminary hypothesis, questions, identification of possible documents in the Blinken OSA Archivum holdings). Artists are expected to submit a portfolio, too. We recommend you refer to one of the topics in your application. Please also mention the specific collections you would like to consult.
Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)
Proof of officially recognized advanced level English language exam (native speakers and those with qualification from an English language institution/degree program are exempted)
Names of two referees with contact address. Letters of reference are not needed.
The Application letter, C.V., the Research description/plan, the copy of a language exam certification and the Referees’ contact information should be sent by email to Katalin Gadoros at gadoros@ceu.edu.
Selection Committee:
All members of the committee are academic staff of Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives / Central European University or the Visegrad Fund.
The Application letter, C.V., the Research description/plan, the copy of a language exam certification and the Referees’ contact information should be sent by email to Katalin Gadoros at gadoros@ceu.edu.
Recent debates about truth, lies, and authenticity have reminded us that truth has a history, and that the meaning of truthfulness and justice keep changing over time. The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University seeks applications from scholars exploring the historical evolution of regimes and practices of establishing, telling, and writing truth. We understand the notion of truth broadly: as a philosophical and epistemological category, an ideal of social equity and political justice, and a principle governing historical writing, legal, and scientific investigation. We invite historians who study the role of ideology, religion, informational technology, and media in the historical evolution of truth. We are also interested in projects on the history of lying, deception, and misinformation. Intellectual historians, historians of art, gender, race, sexuality, information, governance, science, and technology from antiquity to the modern period whose work engages with these subjects are encouraged to apply. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the use and misuse of facts in political propaganda, problems of evidence and objectivity, authenticity and source criticism, fakes, forgery and conspiracy theories, and diplomatic, inter- and intra- national reconciliation. The Davis Center offers fellowships for either one semester (expected to be September–December or February–June) or the academic year. Though the Center is normally able to offer fellowship support for only a single semester, it welcomes the residence of year-long Fellows who combine Center support with funds from elsewhere. Applicants are encouraged to apply for external funds or sabbatical support, and to apply for a year’s Fellowship if they have a reasonable expectation of bringing additional funds with them.
The CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship is now accepting applications! This fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers as well as provides flexibility to travel to other countries.The Multi-Country Research Fellowship has been running since 1993 and supports advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates, who are ‘all but dissertation’, and US scholars who have earned their PhD or terminal degree. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the US, at least one of which must host a participating center. Twelve awards of $12,600 will be granted.
Washington University in St. Louis, Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry A Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences December 7, 2023 https://apply.interfolio.com/132174
Washington University in St. Louis announces the twenty-third year of Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, a postdoctoral fellowship program endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and interpretive social sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils, or D.F.A.s (with degree in hand by June 30, 2024, and no earlier than June 30, 2021) who have not previously held a research-oriented postdoctoral fellowship. In mid-August 2024 the newly selected Fellows will join the University’s ongoing interdisciplinary programs and working groups. Each fellowship is anticipated to run for two academic years, and the nine-month academic year salary for 2024-2025 will be $63,100. Postdoctoral Fellows pursue their own continuing research in association with a senior faculty mentor at WU. During the two years of their fellowship, they will teach three undergraduate courses and collaborate in leading an interdisciplinary seminar on theory and methods for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. Applicants should submit, through Interfolio, a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a description of their research program (no more than 1800 words and accessible to reviewers in other disciplines), and a brief proposal for a broadly encompassing interdisciplinary seminar in theory and methods. Applicants who have not completed their doctoral work should indicate, in their cover letter, how many chapters of their dissertation are complete and how complete the remaining chapters are. Applicants should arrange for the submission of three confidential letters of recommendation, also via Interfolio. Further information on Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry is available on the web at https://mii.wustl.edu/. Please email additional questions to mii@wustl.edu.
University of Michigan, Digital Studies Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Studies January 7, 2024 https://apply.interfolio.com/131042
The Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan invites candidates for the DSI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with one course per year teaching load. This is a 12-month term-limited position beginning 8/26/2024, with the potential to be renewed for a second 12-month term.
Applications are welcome from interdisciplinary scholars with demonstrated research expertise in Digital Studies and closely affiliated fields. This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar with an interest in broadly defined critical digital studies, whose work may come from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to philosophy, art and design, language and literature, anthropology, critical ethnic studies, history, digital archives, law and social work, and other fields in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. The post-doctoral fellow will be affiliated primarily with the Digital Studies Institute and will work closely with an interdisciplinary range of faculty and students.
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) and the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) at the University of Illinois are happy to announce a new call for applications to the Open Research Laboratory (ORL) program. The ORL provides research support for graduate and post-graduate level research on Central and East Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union. We will provide support for both in-person and virtual associateships for scholars to conduct short-term research concerning all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The ORL is funded in part by the US Department of State through its Title VIII Program, which aims to strengthen US expertise and policy-relevant knowledge about the REEES region. The ORL is a small, highly competitive program focused on providing support to researchers working on projects with upcoming deadlines that are best completed in the spring. Those with more flexible timelines are encouraged to apply to the Summer Research Lab (SRL), which supports a larger cohort of researchers over the summer. Specialists including advanced graduate students, faculty, independent scholars, and professionals in government and non-governmental organizations as well as library science are encouraged to apply.
The Endangered Archives Programme offers approximately 30 grants each year to enable researchers to identify and preserve culturally important archives through digitisation. The Programme offers the following types of grant. They are awarded in May/June and normally expected to start in August/September each year.
Pilot projects can either involve investigating the potential for a major project through a survey, or they may be small digitisation projects. Maximum duration: 12 months. Budget limit: £15,000. Major projects are intended for digitisation and cataloguing of a collection or collections. This type of grant may involve preservation necessary for digitisation, and may also relocate the material to a more secure location/institution within the country. Maximum duration: 24 months. Budget limit: £60,000. Area projects are similar to major projects, but larger in scale and ambition. Applicants must demonstrate a successful track record of archival preservation work and be associated with an institution that has the capacity to facilitate a large-scale project. We will will award a maximum of two area grants in each funding round. Potential applicants must contact the EAP office before submitting.
The Center for Jewish History is proud to announce the creation of an expanded fellowship program. The program features four new endowed 10-month fellowships in addition to one existing 12-month fellowship and two short-term fellowships. The seven fellowships constitute the nucleus of a projected Institute for Advanced Jewish Historical Research. The fellowships will support original research using the collections of the Center’s five partners: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute. Preference will be given to those candidates who draw on the archival and library resources of more than one partner institution. The fellowships are open to a range of senior scholars, early career scholars, and advanced graduate students who have completed all the requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree apart from the dissertation. Fellows are encouraged to spend at least three days per week in residence in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room using archival and library resources. Fellows are expected to participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship Seminar Program, attend all the meetings of the fellowship program cohort, present a pre-circulated paper to be discussed at one of those meetings, deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research conducted at CJH, and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing their experience as a Center Fellow. For a complete list of available fellowship programs, please click below to view descriptions and application guidelines. Questions about the fellowship program may be directed to fellowships@cjh.org.
The Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, the Francke Foundations in Halle and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel are for the first time awarding a three-month scholarship for 2024 to an excellent postdoctoral researcher from the East Central European region to research their holdings. The international scholarship programme is open to all historically oriented disciplines. It supports projects that are geared towards researching the holdings of all three institutions, linking them and relating them to each other. A clearly justified reference to the collections held on site in each case is therefore indispensable. The Gotha locations of the University of Erfurt with the universally oriented collections of the former ducal house of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg, especially in the Gotha Research Library, the Francke Foundations in Halle with the Historical Library and the famous Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities from 1736/41, as well as the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel as the most important early modern library in Germany, are among the outstanding collections and research institutions for the cultural history of European early modern times (temporal focus before 1800). The collection holdings are also often thematically complementary to each other. Corresponding topics and questions can therefore often be worked on equally at all three locations; at the same time, however, many research projects could benefit considerably from the simultaneous use of the holdings of all three institutions. In future, this research will be specifically supported by the joint scholarship programme.
The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for the inaugural AVDF/ACLS Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts, made possible by a generous grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. This peer-reviewed fellowship program provides funding and data training for up to five scholarly projects that draw upon the newly available College and Beyond II (CBII) database. he College and Beyond II (CBII) database is a data resource for studying the impact and outcomes of higher education. It contains student record and transcript data on bachelor’s-seeking undergraduates at 19 public colleges and universities that offer a liberal arts education. These data are linkable to qualitative data on course content and survey data on long-term life outcomes. CBII was produced by a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which recognized the dearth of data to support analysis on the varied psycho-social, civic, and career paths of college students who pursue a liberal arts education. CBII represents a general-use study; its data support research on a wide array of student experiences and outcomes. The CBII post-college survey of alumni purposefully collected data on domains often hypothesized to be improved by studying the liberal arts, such as democratic engagement, contentment and well-being, tolerance of diversity, career adaptability, and more. Before the advent of today’s powerful administrative data management systems, it was impossible to study the full path of students’ curricular journeys—the composition of their classes and the characteristics of their classmates—in the way the CBII now allows. By connecting these textured data on the undergraduate experience to later life outcomes, researchers may now test the association between educational experiences and later life outcomes. The CBII’s survey data capture a wide range of post-college outcomes, personal traits, and views. Proposals from empirical social scientists, humanists, researchers working outside the arts and sciences, and researchers working outside the academy are welcome.
The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. This program especially supports projects that engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people. In this way, the program seeks to address the inequities in the distribution of access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. The program offers two kinds of grants: Digital Justice Seed Grants for projects at early stages of development; and Digital Justice Development Grants for projects that have advanced beyond the start-up or early phases of development. All grantees have the opportunity to receive tailored coaching from the Nonprofit Financing Fund in order to plan for the long-term stewardship and sustainability of their projects.
Russian Studies at Durham University, UK invites applications for PhD studentships through the AHRC-funded Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership. We welcome applications from outstanding candidates who can demonstrate evidence of academic excellence, as well as evidence of sufficient research skills to undertake the project.The Northern Bridge Consortium offers fully funded doctoral studentships to outstanding applicants across the full range of arts and humanities subjects and creative practice disciplines. International students as well as UK students are eligible to apply.
Submissions are now being accepted for the 12th annual HGSCEA Emerging Scholars Essay Prize, an award of $500 given to the author of a distinguished article or essay published this year on any topic in the history of German, Scandinavian, or Central European art, architecture, design, or visual culture. Submissions, which must be in English and may be from electronic or print publications, must have a publication date of 2023. Applicants must be either current Ph.D. students or have earned a Ph.D. in or after 2019, and must be members of HGSCEA at the time of submission. The recipient of the Prize (along with honorable mentions as appropriate) will be chosen by the members of the HGSCEA Board, notified in January 2024, and publicly announced at the HGSCEA member’s dinner at CAA in February. Submissions should include a copy of the publication and a CV. They should be sent as electronic attachments to HGSCEA’s Secretary, Professor Jenny Anger (anger@grinnell.edu), by December 22, 2023.
Every year, Ab Imperio Quarterly announces call for the annual Ab Imperio Award for the best study in new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia, up to the late twentieth century, published that year. The award envisions three categories: Best book, Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection, and Best dissertation chapter. The award is given for the novelty of the research question, command of modern international secondary literatures, introduction of new primary sources, and innovative interpretation of primary sources. Any qualified publication that appeared in print or was accepted for publication during the year OR a chapter of the dissertation finished by the end of the year can be nominated for the award. Articles appeared in pay-to-publish journals are not eligible for nomination in the category of best article or book chapter. Individual scholars, academic associations, publishing houses, and editorial boards of academic journals may nominate any qualified publication for the award. Self-nomination by authors is also possible. A nomination, along with a brief statement explaining how it meets the four criteria mentioned earlier, should be sent via email to award@abimperio.net, from November 1 to December 31, 2023. Nominations should be accompanied by full texts in electronic form. Nominations for the best dissertation chapter should include one chapter and the dissertation’s table of content. If necessary, hardcopies can be sent to the address for books for review.
ARISC is an American Overseas Research Center, an independent not-for-profit, that supports research in and about Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, both in the South Caucasus and the US. A member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), ARISC offers fellowships, programming and research support. ARISC is an Affiliate Organization of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). An idea initiated during a gathering in Chicago one weekend in 2005, ARISC was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in Illinois and secured 501(c)3 status in 2007. The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) announces funding opportunities for 2023-24! Please check their website for full eligibility and application information. Deadlines for most funding opportunities are Friday, December 8, 2023.
Washington University in St. Louis Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies December 15, 2023 https://apply.interfolio.com/134899
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Washington University in St. Louis seeks to fill a two-year post-doctoral appointment to begin in the 2024-2025 academic year in the area of feminist and queer approaches to space and place. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work intersects with one or more of the following: indigenous feminisms, feminist ecocriticism, migration and refugee studies, and transnational studies. The responsibilities of this appointment include teaching one course per semester, participating in the scholarly community, and pursuing an active program of research. The second year of the appointment is contingent on a successful review following the first year. Applications should be addressed to René Esparza and submitted through Interfolio, http://apply.interfolio.com/134899.
Applicants should send a letter of interest describing their scholarly qualifications and research goals for the postdoctoral period; current curriculum vitae; a published article or dissertation chapter; and three (3) letters of recommendation. Washington University in St. Louis is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States and are expected to have received the doctorate no earlier than Spring 2021.The committee will review applications until the search is closed, but priority will be given to those received by December 15, 2023.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC) at the University of Virginia invites applications for two-year postdoctoral residential research fellowships. The Institute is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community working at the intersection of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Committed to understanding contemporary and historical cultural change and its individual and social consequences, the Institute supports the development of early career scholars and provides intellectual leadership in service to the common good. In its twenty-seven-year history, the Institute has funded research projects on, for example, political culture and democracy, social and critical theories of modernity, moral philosophy and the public sphere, philosophical anthropology and religious experience, and human development and the making of the modern self in education. Fellowships are open to qualified candidates with US citizenship or those who can obtain the appropriate visa through another institution. All fellows must be in residence at the Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia for the duration of the award period. Institute fellows are expected to participate in IASC events, to be an active in its seminars and reading groups, and to refrain from teaching or other forms of employment during their fellowship. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. before the start of the fellowship term on September 1, 2024, and no earlier than January 1, 2021.
George Washington University, CASJE in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development Post-doctoral Fellowship in Applied Research in Jewish Education and Jewish Communal Life December 17, 2023 https://www.casje.org/
Housed within The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development, the Collaborative for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE) is an alliance of educational, philanthropic and research institutions aiming to provide improved data and scholarship relevant to the practical needs of American Jewish educational and communal institutions. CASJE is currently recruiting three fellows for its post-doctoral training program in applied research. This program prepares individuals to conduct applied social scientific research related to contemporary Jewish education and Jewish communal life. Individuals with earned doctorates are welcome to apply at any stage in their career. The fellowship program, led by CASJE at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development, aims to prepare scholars to meet the research needs of American Jewish educational and communal organizations, to thereby expand the pipeline of researchers positioned to conduct critical, high-quality applied research in Jewish education and contemporary Jewish life. Fellowships run for two years. Fellows will receive an annual salary of $70,000, plus benefits.
The Yale University Council on East Asian Studies seeks applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in Central Asian Studies for an appointment period from July 1st, 2024 – June 30th, 2025. We seek scholars specializing in any aspect of Central Asian Studies working from any disciplinary perspective, including but not limited to anthropology, art history, history, literature, philosophy, political science, religious studies, or sociology. Priority is given to scholars focusing on Xinjiang.Housed in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Council on East Asian Studies provides an important interdisciplinary forum at Yale for academic exploration and support for the study of East Asia, bringing together scholars who specialize in, across, and beyond China, Japan, and Korea.
The Harriman Institute invites applications for 2 two-year Mellon Teaching Fellow positions, extending over 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. Mellon Fellows are expected to concentrate on their own research and writing; to teach a course of their own design in the spring semester of each of the two years; to give a public seminar/lecture on their research and to be active participants in the Institute’s scholarly community. The Institute provides opportunities to organize conferences and other public events around their particular interests.
The Harriman Institute seeks a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian Politics for a two-year appointment, starting July 1, 2024. The incumbent’s responsibilities will be to conduct independent research in Russian Politics and to develop and coordinate policy seminars (AY 2024-2025) with Professors Timothy Frye, Joshua Tucker (NYU), Elise Giuliano, and Alexander Cooley. The Scholar is required to be in residence in the New York City area.
The Harriman Institute seeks a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Ukrainian Studies for a two-year appointment, starting July 1, 2024. Postdoctoral research scholars are expected to concentrate on their own research and writing, which should be focused on some aspect of contemporary Ukrainian life, politics, and/or international affairs; to teach a course of their own design in the spring semester of each of the two years; to give a public seminar/lecture on their research; and to be active participants in the Institute’s scholarly community and events. This position is made possible by generous support of the Petro Jacyk Ukrainian Studies Fund.
University of Cyprus Onisilos Cofund (postdoctoral) fellowships January 25, 2024 https://www.ucy.ac.cy/
The second call for applications for the Onisilos cofund (postdoctoral) fellowships at the University of Cyprus is now open. If you know promising, talented and dynamic junior researchers who might be interested, please encourage them to apply. I am involved in two research fields: Religion, religious institutions and nation-building in Southeastern Europe, National identity, security and population movements in Southeastern Europe. But, there are other colleagues in the Humanities who are involved in other fields. You can find more information, including the interdisciplinary fields and topics that will be supported. Contact Dr. Stefanos Katsikas with questions at katsikas.stefanos@ucy.ac.cy.
This scholarship programme will offer financial support to applicants who have been displaced by the war in Ukraine. The scholarships are open to nationals of Ukraine who have been displaced by the war in Ukraine, and will provide support for full-time taught master’s students beginning one-year courses at Oxford in the 2024-25 academic year. The Ukraine graduate scholars will join eligible taught master’s courses across the University of Oxford and they will receive funding to cover their course fees as well as a grant for living costs. This scholarship programme is designed to assist Ukraine in ‘building back better’, the aim being that the scholars should be able to return and contribute to the reconstruction of Ukraine with the knowledge and networks gained from their one-year course. The scholarships are open to candidates who meet the eligibility criteria - see the Eligibility section of this page for further details. Eligible courses are available in a broad range of academic subjects. Each scholarship will cover course fees in full in addition to a £10,000 grant towards living expenses. Free accommodation and meals will be provided to scholars by the participating colleges.
The University of Pittsburgh is offering two postdoctoral fellowships in the arts and humanities (1 position) and the social sciences (1 position) to begin in August 2024 for scholars whose work focuses on Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia. These fellowships are two-year appointments that are renewable for a third year. Fellows will be expected to pursue their own scholarly work and participate in the academic and intellectual activities of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES), as well as the Department with which they become affiliated. The UCIS Postdoctoral Fellows will teach two courses per academic year throughout the duration of their appointment. The specific courses to be taught will be determined according to the fellow’s interests, the needs of their department, and REEES priorities. Fellows will additionally support REEES’s annual graduate and undergraduate student conferences and other Center outreach activities.These fellowships provide an annual stipend of $54,484 plus benefits. Additional support for up to $3,500 per year can be made available to support research and conference attendance. During their tenure, fellows will also be expected to organize a 2-day international symposium to advance their research with seed funding provided by REEES and other academic centers at the University Center for International Studies.
New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest (Romania) launches the annual competition for the 2024/2025 NEC Fellowships. Romanian and international scholars at postdoctoral level in all fields of the humanities and social sciences (including law and economics) are invited to apply.The Fellowship consists of: a monthly stipend of 850 Euros (tax free); accommodation in Bucharest, comprising living quarters and working space; reimbursement of travel costs from the home/residence country to Bucharest and back. Fellows who stay for the whole academic year are offered a one-month research trip to an institution of their choice. Fellows have free access to the NEC library and electronic resources. Fellows are expected to work on their projects and take part in the scientific events organized by NEC; presence at the weekly seminars discussing the work in progress of the Fellows is compulsory. At the end of their Fellowship, Fellows are expected to hand in a research paper, reflecting the results of their work over the duration of the Fellowship. The papers will be included in a NEC publication. NEC Fellowships are open to postdoctoral level scholars, Romanian and international, in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
ASPIRANTUM announces “Dostoyevsky scholarships” for students in Russian Studies and relevant fields to participate in ASPIRANTUM’s 4-8 weeks Russian language summer school 2024 in Yerevan, Armenia. 10 scholarships are available through ASPIRANTUM’s Dostoyevsky scholarship scheme to those students who meet the eligibility criteria presented below and are interested in learning Russian in Armenia during the 4-8 weeks of Russian language summer school. The participation fee for the 4-8 weeks Russian Language course is $3490-$5490 ($5490 - 8 weeks, $4990 - 7 weeks, $4490 - 6 weeks, $3990 - 5 weeks, $3490 - 4 weeks). The Dostoyevsky scholarship will cover $1400, and the student, if awarded the scholarship, will have to pay $1400 less for the course. Only undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) students, as well as researchers in Slavic Studies and related fields, enrolled in universities and other academic institutions from the below-specified countries, are eligible to apply for the Dostoyevsky scholarship.
The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is pleased to announce the 2024-25 Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Holodomor Studies. Offered under the auspices of its Holodomor Education and Research Consortium (HREC) for the academic year of 2024–25, the fellowship supports the study of and expansion of knowledge about the Holodomor. Applications are welcome from scholars in disciplines including but not confined to history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and literature, as well as famine studies, genocide studies, and rural studies. Interdisciplinary and comparative projects will be considered. Qualified applicants will have received a PhD (or Candidate of Sciences degree) within the past five years at the time of application. Applicants who are scheduled to receive their degree by the end of June 2024 are also eligible to apply, if they submit confirmatory documents. The successful applicant will be expected to take up the post-doctoral appointment at CIUS (University of Alberta) from 1 September 2024, and no later than 30 September 2024. In addition to working on a research project, the Temerty Fellow will assist and participate in the overall program planning and activities of HREC, including the organization of a workshop or conference in the area of their research. There may also be a possibility for the Temerty Fellow to teach a course at the University of Alberta. This competition is open to Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, and foreign nationals. The duration of the fellowship is for one year with the possibility of renewal, subject to review, for a second year. The annual stipend is C$48,000. In addition, the award covers the costs of economy airfare to and from Edmonton; supplemental health benefits; and economy airfare and accommodations for a research trip to Toronto. Recipients of the Temerty Fellowship may not hold another fellowship concurrently.
This Junior Visiting Fellowship aims to support the research of Ukrainian scholars who are completing or have recently completed their doctoral studies. It offers access to the resources of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna to younger researchers who have demonstrated exceptional talent to allow them to work on a research project of their own choice. The fellowships are open to all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Research proposals related to the mission and research of the IWM are strongly encouraged. The selected finalists will be invited to spend four months between September 2024 and June 2025 at the IWM to pursue their research projects. Postdoctoral candidates––i.e., those who have defended their PhD by the date of the fellowship application deadline––will receive a stipend of EUR 3,000 per month; candidates currently pursuing their doctoral degree will receive a stipend of EUR 2,500 per month to cover accommodation, living expenses, travel, health insurance and any incidental costs related to their stay in Vienna. In addition, the IWM provides Visiting Fellows with office space, including internet access, in-house research and administrative facilities, as well as other services free of charge. The Visiting Fellows will join the scholarly community and participate in the activities of the Institute. Generally, fellowships start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month.
The Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship provides a stipend of $65,000 per year, as well as benefits, for one full year with an option for a second year renewal. The Fellow will be expected to be in residence, to conduct research in Duke’s library and archival collections, to participate actively in the intellectual life of the university, to teach a Fall semester course over one year, or three semester courses over two years, and to give a public lecture on their research. The Fellow may not undertake any other sustained teaching or employment during his/her tenure at Duke. Preference will be given to candidates whose area of research and teaching most enriches the offerings already available on campus and whose presence in the Research Triangle promises the greatest contribution to the faculty and student intellectual community, as well as those for whom the use of the Duke library holdings and Special Collections will be most profitable. This postdoctoral fellowship honors the memory of Rabbi Nathan Perilman, who, after serving at Temple Emmanu-El in New York City, joined the Triangle-area Jewish community in his retirement.
University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program Goldin Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies, 2024-25 January 16, 2024 https://apply.interfolio.com/136492
The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania announces the Goldin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies for the 2024-2025 academic year. This fellowship is open to scholars in all fields of Jewish Studies, broadly conceived; preference will be given to applicants who strengthen and/or complement the intellectual interests of the faculty and its research activities. The program is open to a variety of approaches to Jewish Studies and seeks a scholar who possesses both an expansive conception of the field and demonstrates a willingness to work closely with colleagues and students. The fellowship will cover the 12-month period between August 1, 2024 and July 31, 2025, and provide a salary of $65,000 plus health benefits, as well as a modest research stipend. The fellowship may be renewed for a second year, based on satisfactory performance, the existence of funding, and programmatic need.The fellow is expected to be fully resident, an integral participant in the Program in Jewish Studies, and will be eligible for affiliation with an appropriate academic department. The appointment includes teaching one course per academic year, and the appointee will also be expected to offer a public presentation of their work.
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY Postdoctoral Fellow in Mass Atrocity Studies, Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies December 8, 2023 https://www.usajobs.gov/job/758821400
The Fellow must have expertise in Holocaust/Genocide/Atrocity/Human Rights Studies and the history of a region of the world (Africa, East Asia, North America, Latin American, Middle East, South Asia, European, or Russian/Central Asia History). The Fellow will teach a regional World History survey course or an introductory survey of the history of the United States Army and possibly an advanced undergraduate seminar in the candidate’s area(s) of specialty pertaining to Holocaust/Genocide/Mass Atrocity/Human Rights Studies. The Fellow is also expected to contribute to the Center’s ongoing research projects. The Fellow will assist the Director in the administration of CHGS projects and activities. To apply, please follow this link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/758821400 and reference job BRF230041.
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies December 8, 2023 https://www.usajobs.gov/job/758822600
The Fellow in History will contribute to a large study on historical narratives of extremism in the United States with a particular emphasis on the history of race relations in the US Armed Forces. The Fellow will teach an American History survey and/or an introductory survey of the history of the United States Army. The Fellow is also expected to contribute to the Center’s ongoing research projects. The Fellow will assist the Director in the administration of CHGS projects and activities. To apply, please follow this link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/758822600 and reference job BRF230042.
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) team at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the launch of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships competition.
The DDRA fellowship program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula. Students may request funding to support overseas research for a period of no less than six months and no more than 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the residence of the fellow and the country or countries of research; maintenance and dependent allowances based on the location of research for the fellow and his or her dependent(s); an allowance for research-related expenses overseas; and health and accident insurance premiums. Projects may focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).
Institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States are eligible to apply for grants under this program. As part of the application process, eligible students submit their individual research narratives and application forms to their home IHE. The IHE compiles all eligible individual student applications for inclusion in the institutional application that is submitted to the U.S. Department of Education (Department). Student eligibility requirements are outlined in the attached newsletter.
IFLE expects to make 90 new awards totaling approximately $3.2 million under the FY 2024 DDRA program competition. The application is available online through the Department’s G6 system (https://g6.ed.gov/) between Jan. 29 and March 29.
Hungary Foundation together with the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Alapítvány, Budapest, Hungary is now accepting applications for the Budapest Fellowship Program (BFP), for the 2023/2024 academic year (September 2024 - July 2025).
The Budapest Fellowship Program is a full-time, fully-funded transatlantic fellowship in Budapest, Hungary, for young American scholars and professionals, and it includes a Junior Fellowship& aimed for students currently pursuing their Master’s degree or recently graduated from a Masters program, and a Senior Fellowship, for advanced doctoral students (i.e. pre-doctoral fellows), post-doctoral researchers, and early career professionals, who hold at least a Master’s or a Ph.D. degree.
The 10-month program aims to cultivate the next generation of American policy professionals and academics by equipping them with a thorough understanding of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Hungary. The fellows will have an opportunity to conduct research on the topic of their choosing while also gaining practical experience researching or working at a Hungarian host institution that matches their professional interests.
The BFP, through Hungary Foundation’s support will cover all program expenses, including roundtrip airfare to Budapest, Hungary, housing, a monthly stipend as well as health insurance. This opportunity is open for US citizens with a research interest in Central and Eastern Europe and have outstanding research and academic credentials.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2024 Expected Fellowship decision: May 2024
Hungary Foundation is kindly asking you to distribute the information regarding the program among your graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers and to encourage them to apply if interested in this opportunity.
If you are not the right point of contact please feel free to share this opportunity with the right colleagues or department.
Questions regarding the program or the application process may be directed to hf@hungaryfoundation.org.
Thank you so much for your help and support.
The scholarships are available to undergraduate and graduate students. There will be one scholarship of $1500.00, and one $500.00 scholarship. Applications will be accepted from June to August 31, 2024 with winner announced on September 30, 2024. Funds will be dispersed to the winners upon proof of full-time studies at an accredited institution.
ELIGIBILITY • Applicant must be an American citizen, either by birth or naturalization. • Applicant must be of Polish or Polish American descent and demonstrate his/her descent. • Applicant must be a full-time college student, currently enrolled at an accredited college/university in the United States, with confirmed future attendance at an institution in the Fall of 2024. • Applicant must describe his/her involvement in the Polish American community. • Complete application package must be received in its entirety no later than August 31, 2024. • There is no application fee. Factors for Consideration in Order of Importance: • Demonstrated interest and involvement in Polish American cultural activities with future plans to advance those interests. • Significant and potential contributions (academic, cultural, scientific, civic), open to all career fields. • Academic and scholastic performance and achievements as demonstrated in application materials provided for examination.
TheCopernicus Center for Polish Studies (CCPS) invites applications for theDianne Widzinski Visiting Fellowship, a residential fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The fellowship was made possible by a generous gift by Dianne Widzinski intended for Polish scholars, artists, journalists and public figures to conduct and share their research on contemporary Polish society, culture and politics at the University of Michigan
Applicants are invited to propose research projects that could include, but are not limited to: rule of law or topics of vital importance in contemporary Poland, freedom of speech, women’s rights, issues of equity and social issues in Poland.Candidates must have current residency in Poland and possess excellent oral and written English language skills; proficiency will be verified.
A brief proposal (approximately 1,000 words) describing: a) past and current research, and b) plan for the visit at U-M
Curriculum Vitae
A copy of your doctoral diploma or highest degree received
Widzinski Research Fellow applicants must also submit a recommendation letter from the dissertation chair or comparable or person with excellent knowledge of the candidate and their work
Consent to participate in interview via telephone, Skype, or Zoom
Application Deadline for Winter and Fall 2025: August 15, 2024
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