Fellowships

Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships

Deadline: October 1, 2008

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2009 2010 Fellowship competition. The Center awards approximately 20 - 25 academic year residential fellowships to individuals from any country with outstanding project proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance. Applicants must hold a doctorate or have equivalent professional experience. Fellows are provided stipends (which include round trip travel), private offices, access to the Library of Congress, Windows based personal computers, and research assistants. You can apply online or download the application from the Center’s website.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Scholar Administration Office
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
Tel: 202 691 4170; Fax: 202 691 4001; E mail: fellowships@wilsoncenter.org.

Email: kim.conner@wilsoncenter.org
Visit the website at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships

Posted: August 21, 2008.



Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2009-2010 at Cornell University

Deadline: October 1, 2008

The Society for the Humanities invites scholars to reflect upon the theme of “Networks/Mobilities” in order to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows of peoples, materials, images, and ideas across physical and virtual boundaries. Relations of mobility and immobility, insofar as they are being reconfigured by broad-ranging new technologies of surveillance, detention, and legal/administrative regulation, are also germane to the theme. The Society encourages applicants to investigate the cultural, social, philosophical, and methodological implications of the theme.

In addition to raising wide-ranging historical inquiries and broad conceptual and epistemological issues, applicants might ask whether the commonplace tropes of diaspora, hybridity, and migration suffice for understanding contemporary globalization and shifting patterns of social and cultural influences through travel, trade, and migration of peoples, goods, and ideas--overland and across water and air. While the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the South Pacific have been focal sites for analysis of movements over several centuries, critical practices and enhanced communications provide additional networks of diverse and activated mobilities, from an emergent understanding of Islamic civilization to a broader recognition of comparative Latin American and Asian cultures and their relation to the West.

Of equal interest is the role of digital culture in relation to migrations, networking, and global cosmopolitanisms. Just as ancient and early modern technologies of writing have been compounded by modernist technologies of vision and sound, from the phonograph to the cinema, recent online networks have extended the range of cultural mobilities, and with them the cast and reach of experience. To what extent might these new mobilities constitute emergent modes of embodiment?

Scholars are encouraged to investigate transformations of concepts, theories and practices across historical periods, disciplinary boundaries, and social contexts. How might we consider the migration of ideas from the humanities and arts to the information and biological sciences and vice-versa, or the mobilization of academic theories and conceptual networks by activist practices inside and outside of the academy. Such migrations, mobilities and networks need not be actual but could also be virtual in the mobilizations of ideas and artistic practices.

Fellowships
Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. The fellowships are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow will receive $45,000. Applicants living outside North America are eligible for an additional $2000 to assist with travel costs

Fellows spend most of their time at Cornell in research and writing but are invited to offer one seminar related to their research. The choice of topic and the mode and level of instruction are at the pleasure of the Fellow, but the seminars are generally informal, related to the Fellow's research, and open to graduate students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members. Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the content and the method of their courses.

Qualifications
Fellows should be working on topics related to the year's theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines.

Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2008. The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching experience which may include teaching as a graduate student.

To Apply
Consult the Society for the Humanities web site: www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
The application materials must be postmarked on or before October 1, 2008. Faxed applications will not be accepted. Awards will be announced by the end of December 2008.

For further information:
www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House
27 East Avenue
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101

Phone: 607-255-9274
Email: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu

The Society for the Humanities
The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to support research and encourage imaginative teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation, and a continuing society of scholars. In addition to promoting research on central concepts, methods or problems in the humanities, the Society for the Humanities seeks to encourage serious and sustained discussion between teachers and learners at all levels of maturity.

Program Administrator
Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House
27 East Avenue
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101

Phone: 607-255-9274
Fax: 607-255-1422

Email: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
Visit the website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/

Posted: May 28, 2008



Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowships

The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses issues of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Awards of $3,000 each are applicable to research/travel costs. Applications will open the first week of September and the deadline for submission is October 13, 2008. Applications are available *online only.* To learn more, and to apply, visit http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/women_gender/index.php. Potential applicants who have questions AFTER a full review of the Women’s Studies Fellowship Web site may email ws@woodrow.org.

Women's Studies Program
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
609-452-7007

Email: ws@woodrow.org
Visit the website at http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/women_gender/index.php

Posted: August 21, 2008

Fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin

Deadline: October 13, 2008

The Academy, which opened in September 1998, is a private, non-profit center for advanced research in a range of academic and cultural fields. It is housed in the Hans Arnhold Center, a historic lakeside villa in the Wannsee district of Berlin.

The Academy welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent study in Berlin. Fewer than two dozen Berlin Prizes are conferred annually. Past Berlin Prize recipients have included historians, economists, poets, art historians, journalists, legal scholars, anthropologists, musicologists, public policy experts, and writers, among others. The Academy does not accept project proposals in mathematics and the hard sciences.

In addition to placing a very high priority on the independent work of its fellows, the Academy is in a unique position to aid fellows in establishing professional networks, as well as links to the media, both in Berlin and beyond. The Academy’s public atmosphere, which actively encourages fellows to introduce their work to wider audiences, serves its mission of fostering transatlantic ties through cultural exchange.

Fellowships are typically awarded for an academic semester or, in rare cases, for an entire academic year. Only the Bosch Fellowships in Public Policy may be for shorter stays of six to eight weeks. Fellowship benefits include round-trip airfare, housing at the Academy, partial board, and a stipend ranging from $4,000 to $5,000 per month. The Academy’s elegant furnished apartments at the Hans Arnhold Center are suitable for individuals and couples; limited accommodations are available for families with children. All fellows are expected to live at the Hans Arnhold Center during the entire term of the award.

Fellowships are restricted to US citizens and permanent residents who are based permanently in the US. (American expatriates are not eligible to apply.) Candidates in academic disciplines must have completed a doctorate at the time of application. The Academy weighs the general excellence of professional accomplishment and proposal more than the project’s specific relevance to Germany. Though it is helpful to explain how a Berlin residency might contribute to the project’s further development, candidates must by no means be specialists in German topics.

Application forms may be downloaded from the Academy’s website or obtained by mail upon request. Finalist applications will be reviewed by the General Selection Committee following a rigorous screening process. The 2009–2010 Berlin Prizes will be awarded in February 2009 and publicly announced in the spring of 2009.

At this time, the Academy is accepting general applications only. Composers are kindly asked to visit the Academy’s website for details regarding the competition in music composition. The Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship in the Visual Arts is an invitation-only competition, in which candidates are nominated by members of the Academy’s arts jury. Please consult the Academy’s website for more information.

For further information, please contact:

The American Academy in Berlin
Attn: Application for Fellowship
Am Sandwerder 17–19
14109 Berlin, Germany
Telephone +49 (30) 804 83-0
Fax +49 (30) 804 83-111
applications@americanacademy.de
www.americanacademy.de

The American Academy in Berlin
Attn: Application for Fellowship
Am Sandwerder 17–19
14109 Berlin, Germany
Telephone +49 (30) 804 83-0
Fax +49 (30) 804 83-111

Email: applications@americanacademy.de
Visit the website at http://www.americanacademy.de



Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

Deadline: October 15, 2008.

Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are available for the 2009-2010 academic year from the Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania for untenured junior scholars who are no more than eight years out of their doctorate.

The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. The Forum has set CONNECTIONS as the topic for the 2009-2010 academic year. Research proposals on this topic are invited from a variety of theoretical perspectives in all areas of humanistic study except educational curriculum-building and the performing arts. Candidates from all humanistic disciplines are eligible, as well as those in allied areas such as Anthropology and History of Science.

Fellows teach one undergraduate course each of two terms in addition to conducting research. Stipend: $46,500, plus health insurance. The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet eligibility criteria.

Full fellowship guidelines, topic description, and downloadable application are available online only: http://www.phf.upenn.edu

Jennifer Conway
Associate Director
Penn Humanities Forum
University of Pennsylvania
3619 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213
Phone: 215.898.8220
Email: phf@sas.upenn.edu
Visit the website at http://www.phf.upenn.edu

Posted: May 28, 2008



Smith Richardson Foundation - World Politics and Statecraft Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: October 31, 2008

The Smith Richardson Foundation is announcing the 2008 iteration of its annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each.
The fellowship’s objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training. In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.

For more information on how to apply, please visit the Foundation's website.

World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship
Smith Richardson Foundation
60 Jesup Rd
Westport, CT, 06880
Email: worldpolitics@srf.org
Visit the website at http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php

Posted: August 21, 2008



Holocaust Museum Fellowship

Deadline: Novermber 26, 2008


The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law, and others.
Fellowships are awarded to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution. Immediate post-docs and faculty between appointments will also be considered.

The specific fellowship and the length of the award are at the Center’s discretion. Individual awards generally range up to nine months of residency; a minimum of three consecutive months is required. Fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective. Stipends range up to $3,500 per month. Residents of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area receive a modified stipend and term of residency.

For complete fellowship competition guidelines and to download a fellowship application, please visit www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship.

All applications and supporting materials must be received by November 26, 2008. Decisions will be announced in April 2009. Fellowships may start as early as June 2009 and must be completed no later than September 2010. All applications must be in English and consist of:

• A completed application form;
• A project proposal not to exceed five single-spaced pages;
• A curriculum vitae;
• Three letters of recommendation that speak to the significance of the proposed project and the applicant’s ability to carry it out, to be sent directly to the Center.

Dr. Lisa Yavnai, Director
Visiting Scholar Programs
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
Tel. 1-202-314-7829
Fax 1-202-479-9726
Email: visiting_scholars@ushmm.org
Visit the website at http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/

Posted: August 21, 2008



Miller Center Fellowships in American Politics, Foreign Policy and World Politics

Deadline: February 2009

The Miller Center encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, and sociology. Applicants will be judged on their scholarly quality and on their potential to shed new light upon contemporary developments in American Politics, Foreign Policy, or World Politics.

The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia also invites applications for the Wilson Carey McWilliams Fellowship. The McWilliams Fellowship supports a graduate student in political science or history whose dissertation combines the special blend of Political Theory and American Politics that characterized the late Wilson Carey McWilliams's extraordinary scholarship. The applicant must be a PhD candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year. The McWilliams fellow will participate in the regular Miller Center Fellowship program, and will also be paired with a fellowship "mentor."

Requirements: An applicant must be 1) a PhD candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year; or 2) an independent scholar working on a book. This is not a post-doctoral fellowship.

Residence is strongly encouraged but is not required. All fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the Center. Each fellow is also expected to participate in a conference in Fall 2009 and May 2010. These conferences will provide a forum for presenting research and findings to the scholarly community at the Miller Center and the University of Virginia.

To Apply: Send two complete copies of your application to:

Miller Center National Fellowship Program
Miller Center of Public Affairs
2201 Old Ivy Rd
P.O. Box 400406
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4406

Both sets of materials should be in the following order: 1) applicant information sheet, 2) project description, 3) op-ed proposal, 4) bibliography, 5) curriculum vitae, 6) writing sample, 7) TWO letters of recommendation. Letters of recommendation may also be mailed separately.

All applications for the Miller Center Fellowships must be postmarked by February 2009. Applicants will be notified of the selection committee's decision in April 2009.

Inquiries about the Miller Center Fellowship should be directed to Laura Phillips by e-mail at ldp8h@virginia.edu or by phone at 434-924-4694.

Contact Laura Phillips if you have further questions.

Web Site: Miller Center

Posted: August 21, 2008.