Fellowships Listings in Modern Greek Studies
Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/ecfguide.htm
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program provides
support for young scholars to complete their dissertation and, later, to
advance their research after being awarded the PhD. This program will award
fellowships in two categories: Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Recent
Doctoral Recipients Fellowships. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
supports this program.
ACLS will award 65 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term
beginning between June and September 2008 for the 2008-2009 academic year. The Fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence
at the Fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the
research. The total award of up to $33,000
includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research
support. These Fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other major
fellowship or grant.
American Association of
University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships
http://www.aauw.org
American Fellowships support women
doctoral candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for
postdoctoral research leave from accredited institutions. Applicants must be
American
Association of University Women (AAUW) International
Fellowships
http://www.aauw.org
International
Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research to women who are not
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowships
http://www.arce.org
ARCE administers fellowships for study in Egypt by students enrolled in
doctoral programs at North American universities and by post-doctoral scholars
and professionals affiliated with North American universities and research
institutions. Depending on the
source of funding, fellowships are granted for periods of between 3 and 12
months.
American Research Institute in
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/
Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient,
medieval, or modern times in
dissertation before accepting a fellowship. ARIT operates housing, study, and
research facilities for researches in
Embassy.
http://www.ascsa.org
The Frantz Fellowship supports research in the fields of Late Antiquity,
Byzantine Studies, and Modern Greek Studies for Ph.D. candidates and recent
Ph.D.s from a
American
A number of fellowships encompass the field of Modern
Greek Studies. For membership and fellowship information visit the ASCSA
website at: www.ascsa.edu.gr
AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:
Information and forms for all programs are available for downloading from the
society’s Web site (http://www.amphilsoc.org); click on Fellowships and
Research Grants. This section of the Web site is updated every year in May.
Franklin
Research Grants:
Postdoctoral grants for basic research in all fields. The maximum grant is
$6,000. The deadlines (including receipt of two referee letters) are 1 October and
1 December . Decisions are announced in February and
April. Information and forms are available at the society's Web site
(http://www.amphilsoc.org). If electronic access is denied, write to Franklin
Research Grants, stating the nature of your research and proposed use of funds,
at American Philosophical Soc.,
http://www.amphilsoc.org
Canadian Federation Of University Women Dr. Marion
Elder Grant Fellowship
http://www.cfuw.org
The candidate must be studying
full time at the Master's or doctoral level in
Center for the Education of Women Visiting Scholar Program
http://www.umich.edu/~cew
Applications are invited from scholars and practitioners interested in being in
residence at the Center for the Education of Women (CEW) for a period of one to
twelve months to pursue research projects relevant to women. Scholars will
prepare a working paper
and/or give a seminar or talk based on their research, to be available through CEW's series of research reports. Applicants must hold an
earned PhD or equivalent degree. CEW will provide: office space, access to
facilities and programs, a stipend of up to $7,500 and/or research support
funds.
Brian Hewson Crawford History Fellowship
The Warburg Institute, University of
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/
The
Warburg Institute offers a number of short-term fellowships (one to three
months) in intellectual and cultural history. All of the fellowships are
intended for younger scholars who have completed at least one years of research
on their Doctorate. The Crawford
Fellowship is a two month fellowship available for the study of any aspect of
the classical tradition. The Fellowship is open to Europeans other than of
British nationality.
Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
http://www.woodrow.org
Description: Grants of $3,000 are available to support significant research
concerning women and their role in society, women in history, the psychology of
women, and women as seen in literature and art. Full-time graduate students in
any field related to women’s studies who have completed all requirements for
the Doctorate but the dissertation are eligible to apply.
Fellowship Program of the Council for European Studies
www.councilforeuropeanstudies.org
The Council for European Studies is the leading academic organization for the
study of
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/sub/finaid/main/welcome/index.html
Fellowships to study modern non-western European languages and area studies and
some western European languages (French, German, Spanish, and Italian are given
lowest priority) are available to US citizens or permanent residents who are
not native speakers of the language of application. Applicants are expected to
enroll in an eligible modern foreign language course and related area courses
in preparation for future service to the
Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship (FLAS)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/sub/finaid/main/welcome/index.html
Summer FLAS fellowship support study of modern non-western European languages
and area studies. Western European languages including French, German, Spanish,
and Italian are given lowest priority. US citizens and permanent residents who
are non native speakers of the language of application are eligible to apply.
Gottlieb Daimler -und Karl Benz-Stiftung research
in Foreign Countries Grant Program for Young Researchers
http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/en/start.html
The fellowships are intended to support a new
generation of academics. The program therefore applies only to persons, not to
projects. The program is open to all disciplines, subjects and countries.
Germans wishing to pursue a research stay abroad and foreign students intending
to work in
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
http://www.hfg.org
Graduate students in the final year of writing the dissertation are eligible to
apply. Stipend is $15,000 for one year. The fellowship is to support research
that adds to our understanding of problems related to violence and aggression,
especially in relation to
urgent contemporary problems. All areas of social sciences, natural sciences,
and humanities will be considered.
Harvard University Society of Fellows Program
http://www.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esocfell/
The
purpose of the Society is to give men and women at an early stage of their
scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of
the University, free from formal requirements. They must be persons of
exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness. These Junior Fellows are
selected by the Senior Fellows, who with the President of the University and
the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ex officio,
administer the Society. Those elected receive three year fellowships.
Hellenic Times Scholarship Program
http://www.HTSFund.org
The Hellenic Times will award over $100,000 in scholarships this year to Greek
American students across the country. For further information or to obtain an
application, visit the organization's web site.
International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Social Science Research Council)
http://programs.ssrc.org/idrf/
This program provides support for social scientists and humanists conducting
research in all areas and regions of the world. Fellowships will provide
support for nine to twelve months of dissertation research. Individual awards
will be approximately $20,000. No award will be made for proposals requiring
less than nine months of on-site research. The 2008 IDRF fellowship must be
held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July
2008 and December 2009.
Jacob Hirsch Fellowship (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/
The Hirsch Fellowship is available to Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s from
the U.S. or Israel who are completing a project such as the revision of a
dissertation for publication that requires a lengthy residence in Greece.
Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowships
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
The purpose of the JKJ Fellowship program is to award fellowships to eligible
students of superior ability, selected on the basis of demonstrated
achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise, who wish to undertake
graduate study in selected fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
leading to a doctoral degree or a master's degree in those fields in which the
master's degree is the terminal highest degree awarded in the selected field of
study.
NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES:
The endowment’s grant-making operations
are conducted through four divisions and two offices. Through grants to educational
institutions and opportunities for teachers, the Division of Education Programs
is designed to strengthen sustained, thoughtful study of the humanities at all
levels of education. Through fellowships to individual scholars and support of
collaborative projects, the Division of Research Programs promotes significant
original research in the humanities. In the Division of Public Programs the
projects in Media, Museums, and Historical Organizations and the Humanities
Projects in Libraries support humanities projects for the out-of-school public.
The Division of Preservation and Access makes grants for projects that will
create, preserve, and increase the availability of resources important for
research, education, and public programming in the humanities. The Office of
Federal/State Partnership makes grants to citizens’ committees in each state to
provide support for local humanities projects. Nonprofit institutions
interested in developing new sources of long-term support for humanities
programs may seek assistance from the Office of Challenge Grants.General
eligibility: The endowment supports the work of individual scholars and
not-for-profit institutions and organizations engaged in projects involving the
humanities. Those institutions include universities; four-year colleges; junior
and community colleges; elementary and secondary schools; educational,
cultural, professional, and community groups; museums and historical
organizations; libraries; public agencies; and public radio and television stations.
The endowment welcomes applications for support from all such institutions and
groups, from individual
PHI BETA
KAPPA SOCIETY MARY ISABEL SIBLEY FELLOWSHIP:
Pre- or postdoctoral fellowships awarded
alternately in Greek (language, literature, history, or archaeology) and French
(language or literature). The 2005 award was in Greek. Applicants must be
unmarried women between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. The stipend is
$20,000. Applications are due 15 January 2006. Write to the Mary Isabel Sibley
Fellowship Committee, Phi Beta Kappa Society,
Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace
http://www.usip.org
The Peace Scholar dissertation fellowship competition of the Jennings Randolph
Program for International Peace supports doctoral dissertations that explore
the sources and nature of international conflict, and strategies to prevent or
end conflict.
KRESS/ARIT Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and Archaelogy
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT
Applicants
should be engaged in advanced dissertation research that necessitates a period
of study in
Olivia James Traveling Fellowship (Archaeological Institute of America)
http://www.archaeological.org
The Olivia James Traveling Fellowship is to support students traveling and
studying classics, sculpture, architecture, archeology, or history in the
Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Sicily, Greece or the Mesopotamian
Region. One year fellowships are available to US citizens or permanent
residents engaged in research. Stipends are $22,000.
Dr. George N. Papanicolaou Hellenic Heritage
Graduate Research (
http://www.hucny.org
This grant is to encourage Hellenic studies from the
classical period throughout the 18th century. Grants are a minimum of $1,000.
All applicants must be of Greek ancestry and be engaged in research directly
related to Hellenic studies. Areas of research include,
but are not limited to, archeology, history, arts and culture (theatre arts,
language, anthropology, etc.). Candidates must be of Hellenic origin.
Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Fellowships in Hellenic Studies, and other
fellowships
Academic Year 2008 and beyond
For the latest information, see: http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Program in Hellenic Studies
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN HELLENIC STUDIES
Academic Year 2008-2009
The Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University invites applications
for three post-doctoral fellowships: (1) The Hannah Seeger
Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Hellenic Studies; (2) the Mary Seeger O'Boyle Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in
Hellenic Studies; (3) the Ted and Elaine Athanassiades
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Hellenic Studies. Fellows will be
appointed as Post-Doctoral Research Associates for one academic year doing
research on a full-time basis. These fellowships are awarded annually on a
competitive basis. Scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and social
sciences are eligible to apply. There is one online application form and
procedure for all three appointments.
These fellowships are intended for scholars in Hellenic Studies, with a special
emphasis on Modern Greek Studies, Byzantine Studies, or Late Antique Studies,
including their relation to the Classical tradition. The goal of this
post-doctoral research fellowship program is to advance the scholarship of
outstanding Hellenists at an early stage of their career and thus to strengthen
the field of post-Classical Greek Studies in the
The salary will be $43,160 for the academic year (term of residence September
1, 2008 to June 30, 2009). In addition to their salary, fellows receive
reimbursement (up to $1,500 per academic year) for research related expenses,
such as books and materials, travel expenses when presenting papers at academic
conferences during the period of their appointment, etc. Fellows are
responsible for their own travel and moving arrangements and expenses, as well
as for finding and paying for their housing at
Fellows are required to be in residence at
Candidates must have completed all the requirements for the doctoral degree by
February 29, 2008 (including the defense, viva voce, or final public oral
examination), but no earlier than June 1, 2005. Exceptions may be granted to
applicants who earned the Ph.D. degree prior to June 1, 2005, if they were kept
from engaging in research immediately after obtaining their doctorate because
of having been on parental leave, having been ill, having completed military
service, or a similar type of circumstance. A statement to this effect must be
submitted by the applicant and must be certified by the applicant's Department
Chair. Post-Doctoral fellows may not pursue another degree while on this
fellowship, nor may they hold any other fellowships or visiting positions
concurrently with their appointment at
The Committee on Hellenic Studies awards post-doctoral fellowships on the basis
of several criteria: (a) scholarly accomplishment in a discipline of the
humanities or the social sciences, and overall academic excellence and promise;
(b) potential contribution to an interdisciplinary community of scholars at
Princeton; (c) significance and quality of the research proposal in definition,
clarity, organization, and scope; (d) potential future impact on the field of
Hellenic Studies through teaching and writing; (e) ability to benefit from and
contribute to the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. Applications are
reviewed both by specialists in the candidate’s academic discipline and by an
interdisciplinary group of senior scholars. All Committee decisions are
confidential.
Candidates are required to submit an online application form including the
following: (1) cover letter with title and summary (200 words) of proposed
research project; (2) research proposal (five pages; 2,000 words), including
detailed description of project, timetable, explicit goals, and the reason it
is proposed to be pursued at Princeton; (3) selected bibliography; (4)
curriculum vitae and list of publications; (5) sample chapter of the
dissertation or other recent work; (6) three confidential letters of
recommendation from individuals who are not current members of the Princeton
University faculty; and (7) a letter from the candidate's Department Chair
confirming the date of completion of all the requirements for the doctoral
degree. The letter confirming the date of completion of all the requirements
for the doctoral degree should be Emailed, followed by
hard-copy to the address below, and must be received by Friday, February 29,
2008.
Referees must submit their letters of recommendation to the Program online by
January 4, 2008. Materials submitted with the application are the property of
the Program and will not be returned. They will be used solely for the purpose
of considering the application for the research fellowship.
DEADLINE: All application materials (including letters of recommendation) must
be received by Friday, January 4, 2008. Awards will be announced by early
March, 2008.
Before accepting a fellowship under the terms of the award letter, all non-U.S.
citizens and non-U.S. permanent residents should insure that they will be able
to enter or remain in the
Confirmation of the doctoral degree should be sent to:
Princeton University
Program in Hellenic Studies
Attn: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Scheide Caldwell House
Princeton, New Jersey 08544, U.S.A.
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/
Telephone: (609) 258-3339
Email: [email protected]
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
http://www.radcliffe.edu
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships are designed to support scholars,
scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated
accomplishment who wish to pursue independent work in academic and professional
fields and in the creative arts. Applicants must have received their doctorate
or appropriate terminal degree at least two years prior to appointment, or have
achieved comparable professional achievement. Fellows are provided with office
space, auditing privileges, and access to libraries and other resources at Radcliffe and Harvard. Stipends are funded up to $60,000
for one year with additional funds for project expenses.
Sibley Fellowship for Greek Studies Phi Beta Kappa Society
http://www.pbk.org/sibley
The annual Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded
alternately in the fields of Greek and French. The award may be used for the
study of Greek language, literature, history or archeology, or the study of
French language or literature. Candidates must be unmarried
women 25 to 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on
original research. They must hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all the
requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning
to devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year. The award is
not restricted to members of Phi Beta Kappa or to
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: Supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and
social sciences, enrolled in doctoral programs in the
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral
Fellowships http://www.sshrc.ca
These
awards are presented to Canadian citizens or permanent residents of
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
http://www.pdsoros.org
Thirty fellowships are awarded to New Americans. New
Americans either hold a green card, have been
naturalized as US citizens, or is the child of two parents who are both
naturalized citizens. Preference is given to students who are entering their
graduate career, although consideration will be given to those completing their
dissertations, though not past their second year. Students must be between the
ages of 20 and 30.
YALE BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY:
Offers short-term fellowships (usually one
month) to support visiting scholars pursuing postdoctoral or equivalent
research in its collections. The library is
For complete information write to the Director, Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
Hellenic Observatory,
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/hellenicObservatory/Grants_prizes.htm
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