Archive for the 'March 2013' Category

ACLS Public Fellows Program

Length: 2 years Deadline: March 27, 2013 Comments: “The program will place 20 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector”; “Prospective applicants should read through all the positions listed below and be ready to choose one when beginning the online application [...]

Max van Berchem Foundation Grants

The Max van Berchem Foundation, whose goal is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art history, epigraphy, religion and literature, awards grants for research carried out in these areas by scholars who have already received their doctorate. URL: http://www.maxvanberchem.org/en/grant-applications Deadline: March 31, 2013

CRASSH Mellon/Newton Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Deadline: March 1 for 2013-15 Duration: two years Comments: Based at Cambridge’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities; program “is aimed at researchers working in any field of the arts, social sciences or humanities”; applicants ”must have been awarded a PhD by the application deadline (1 March 2013) and should normally have been [...]

Marusia and Michael Dorosh Master’s Fellowship

Deadline: March 1 Length: 1 year Comments: Fellowship is “awarded annually to a student writing a dissertation on a Ukrainian or Ukrainian-Canadian topic in [education, history, law, humanities, arts, social sciences, women's studies, library sciences]“; “all …degree requirements [except the dissertation] must be completed by the time the award is taken up”; “Canadian citizens and [...]

Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy and Society Short-term Fellowships

Deadline: March 1 Length: 1 month Comments: For “scholarship in early American economy and society, broadly defined, from its colonial beginnings to roughly the 1850s” URL: http://www.librarycompany.org/economics/efellowships.htm

Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy and Society Dissertation-level Fellowship

Deadline: March 1 Length: 1-2 semesters Comments: For “scholarship in early American economy and society, broadly defined, from its colonial beginnings to roughly the 1850s”; proposals may include work on Philadelphia area institutions as well as the Library Company URL: http://www.librarycompany.org/economics/efellowships.htm

Ernst Mach Grant for Research in Austria – Summer Term

Deadline: March 1st for the following academic year Length: 1-3 months (short-term research given priority) Comments: For summer semester scholarships only; “Applicants must not have studied/pursued research/pursued academic work in Austria in the last six months before taking up the grant”; must be 35 years of age or under; good knowledge of German required; all [...]

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships

Deadline: varies for different fellowships (between April 15, 2013 and March 15, 2013) Length: varies from up to 3 years to up to three years depending on the fellowship URL: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/jobs.html Comments: Postdoctoral fellowship  for one or two years associated with research group on the history of knowledge and art up to the eighteenth century (with a [...]

American Musicological Society Ora Frishberg Saloman Grants

Deadline: March 1 Length: Short-term Comments: For research in “nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic connections between European and American music criticism and reception history”; student applicants must be ABD; postdoctoral applicants must have received the PhD within the past 5 years URL: http://www.ams-net.org/grants/saloman.php

Kennan Institute Short-Term Grants

Deadline: December 1, March 1, June 1, September 1 Length: up to one month Comments: To support those “whose research in the social sciences or humanities focuses on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C., [...]