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Lemmermann Foundation Fellowship for Research in Rome – Deadline March 31st, 2024

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FONDAZIONE LEMMERMANN
2024 FELLOWSHIP AWARD for RESEARCH in ROME (Italy)

The Lemmermann Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships to master’s students and doctoral candidates in order to support their cost of research in the classical studies and humanities. Fields of study include but are not limited to Archaeology, History, History of Art, Italian, Latin, Musicology, Philosophy, and Philology. Applicants must provide evidence for their need to study and carry out research in Rome. Topic of research must be related to Rome or the Roman culture from the Pre-Roman period to the present day.

ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must:
1) be enrolled in a recognized higher education program or affiliated with a
research institute;
2) have a basic knowledge of the Italian language;
3) be born after March 31st, 1988.

DEADLINE:
Next deadline for sending applications is March 31st, 2024.

STIPEND:
The monthly scholarship amount is established in €750.00.

TO APPLY:
The following documents are required:
1) A research proposal that includes a description of the area of study;
2) Two recommendation letters;
3) A curriculum vitae;
4) A photocopy of the applicant’s passport, ID Card, or birth certificate.

Further information and access to the on-line application form is
http://www.lemmermann-foundation.org

For any communication email to info@lemmermann-foundation.org

Fondazione Lemmermann
c/o Studio Avvocato Ermanno Gatto
Viale Carlo Felice, 101, 00185 – Roma, Italia

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CFP: Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History – Preservation, Absence, Erasure

Call for Papers:

Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History:

Preservation, Absence, Erasure

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA | May 6, 2024

Sponsored by the Seminar in the History of the Book at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard; Brown University; and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale.

We are pleased to announce the fifteenth annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History, hosted this year by Harvard University in Cambridge, MA on Monday, May 6, 2024 at the Barker Center. The programs for the previous conferences are available here.

Proposals are invited from graduate students (at any stage) and postdocs for papers on any aspect of the history of the book. Priority will be given to current students affiliated with Harvard, Yale, and Brown, though we will consider submissions from students at other institutions in New England. Topics might include manuscript, print, and digital cultures; new media; authorship, forgery, and anonymity; readers and reading practices; publication, circulation, and transmission; censorship, copyright, and piracy; spaces for producing and consuming media; and the history of library and information science. Papers relating to all time periods and geographical locations are welcome.

Our 2024 conference theme, Preservation, Absence, Erasure, encourages submissions that investigate the practices and ethics of collecting, consuming, and recovering material texts as objects using the methods of book history. What do we choose to collect and why? What is left out of the archive or left behind, either passively or intentionally? What stories do book objects themselves tell or elide? How can we as scholars recover voices lost in the archive? How do trends in digitization challenge ideas about materiality, and how might new developments in AI shape our understanding of authorship? How do texts and objects survive and adapt to varying circumstances of creation, consumption, and circulation? How do metaphors—e.g. book and archive as body, historical witness, container—amplify or obfuscate the material histories of the book? Speakers may engage with this theme to the extent they see fit.

Proposals are due Monday, January 29, 2024. These should include a title and a brief abstract (approximately 200 words), as well as your university and departmental affiliation. Speakers will have 15 minutes to present their work, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. Please submit proposals using this Google Form.

Please do not hesitate to contact the graduate coordinators with any questions: Ashley Gonik (ashleygonik@g.harvard.edu), Elinor Hitt (elinor_hitt@g.harvard.edu), Alicia Petersen (alicia.petersen@yale.edu), Dandan Xu (dandan_xu@brown.edu), and Dima Nasser (deema_nasser@brown.edu).

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CFP: Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World – Deadline February 15, 2024

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Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World

A Panel to Be Held at the SCS Meeting in January 2025

Organized by Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University

The realities of labor are often hidden in the ancient Roman world. Writers conspicuously exalt the virtues of hardworking Republican farmers (Livy 3.26), the productivity of an idealized pastoral landscape (Verg. Ecl. 4; Longus 1.2-11), and the labor of philosophical inquiry (Lucr. DRN 2.730). In contrast, recognizing antiquity’s unseen labor often requires radically new perspectives, such as that of the human-turned-donkey protagonist of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Lucius, who recounts the horrific state of human and animal slaves at a mill (9.11-13). Emaciated humans display vivid welts while animal hooves are painfully widened from constant circuits around the mill. The material evidence of forced human and animal labor is newly perceptible to the lector scrupulosus from Lucius’ “humanimal state” (Chesi and Spiegel 2019 with Haraway 2016), a posthuman perspective that decenters anthropocentric experience to reveal a spectrum of involuntary interspecies production.

Extending discussions into ancient Rome’s “weaker voices” (Matzner and Harrison 2019), this panel seeks new approaches for decentering dominant perspectives (human, male, elite) to reveal the hidden labor of marginalized groups such as slaves, women, children, foreigners, and animals. We welcome papers exploring any aspect of Roman antiquity’s unseen labor (physical, emotional, intellectual, social, poetic, etc.), especially in ways that cut across traditional boundaries of both the classical Roman world and modern disciplines to consider, e.g., Greek, Egyptian, and other Roman-era literatures and cultures from literary, historical, and material perspectives. Papers might address one of the following questions:

  • How does the revelation of hidden labor break down distinctions between boundaries of the self (human/animal, free/unfree, gendered, geographic, racial or ethnic, etc.)?
  • What are the ancient terminologies for labor (labor, ἔργον, bꜣk)? What are the varying linguistic and cultural expressions of hidden labor in, e.g., Roman Egypt, Greece, Italy, Carthage, and/or Asia Minor?
  • How does social status affect perceptions of artistic labor, e.g. in the slave theater of Roman comedy (Richlin 2017)? Is poetic labor something to show off or hide? What are the lost labors of poetic production?
  • How do elite representations of poetic labor as otium obscure the economies of poetic production?
  • Where does the aestheticization of labor enhance or obscure ugly, shameful, or otherwise stigmatized production, e.g., slave and child labor (Laes 2011), sex work (Glazebrook 2015), patron-client relationships, reproductive labor (Geue 2021), or industries of death and dying (Richlin 2014; Bond 2020)?
  • What are the advantages or limitations of Marxist readings, e.g. the simultaneous over- and underworking of the gimmick (Ngai 2020), in revealing antiquity’s hidden labor (Geue 2018; cf. Bernard 2020)?

Please submit abstracts (500 word maximum, excluding bibliography) by February 15, 2024 to info@classicalstudies.org with the panel title in the subject line; do not include your name in the abstract itself. Abstracts will be judged anonymously.

Questions can be directed either to Rebecca Moorman (moorman@bu.edu) or Lorenza Bennardo (lorenza.bennardo@utoronto.ca).

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies will be held January 2, 2025 – January 5, 2025 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (1200 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States)

Literature cited

Bernard, Seth. 2020. “The Economy of Work.” In A Cultural History of Work in Antiquity, ed. E. Lytle, 19-32. London.

Bond, Sarah E. 2016. Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean. Ann Arbor.

Chesi, Guilia Maria and Francesca Spiegel, eds. 2019. Classical Literature and Posthumanism. London.

Geue, Tom. 2021. “Power of Deduction, Labor of Reproduction: Vergil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Exploitation of Women.” Vergilius 67: 25-45.

——–. 2018. “Soft Hands, Hard Power: Sponging Off the Empire of Leisure (Virgil, Georgics 4).” JRS 108: 115-140.

Glazebrook, Allison, ed. 2015. Beyond Courtesans and Whores: Sex and Labor in the Greco-Roman World. Helios special issue 42.1.

Haraway, Donna J. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC.

Laes, Christian. 2011. Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within. Cambridge.

Matzner, Sebastian and Stephen Harrison. 2019. Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature. Oxford.

Ngai, Sianne. 2020. Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form. Cambridge, MA.

Richlin, Amy. 2014. “Emotional Work: Lamenting the Roman Dead.” In Arguments from Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women, 267-288. Ann Arbor.

——–. 2017. Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy. Cambridge.

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Job Posting: Redford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Archaeology – Deadline March 1, 2024

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Lora Bryning Redford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Archaeology

  

Appointment:

The University of Puget Sound invites applications for the Lora Bryning Redford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Archaeology starting in Fall 2024. This is a nonrenewable one-year position.

Responsibilities:

The Redford Fellow will be expected to teach four undergraduate courses over the year, two in the fall and two in the spring. One or two of these courses should be an introduction to archaeology (including archaeological methods), while the other courses can be more specialized and will be determined according to the successful fellow’s interests and abilities. The Fellow will be expected to help students participate in an excavation over the summer; if they bring students to their own project, additional compensation up to $3000 will be provided. The Fellow will also deliver a public lecture and serve as a campus resource for those interested in archaeology. The Fellow will be assigned to an appropriate department (e.g. Art and Art History; Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; History; Religion, Spirituality and Society), where a mentor will assist with courses and professional development.

Qualifications:

We invite applications from scholars who have completed a Ph.D. in archaeology or anthropology within the last five years. We seek a candidate who has expertise in the archaeology of the Roman world c. 500 BCE to 500 CE.  Specialization in the Western Mediterranean, including but not limited to Italy, Spain, North Africa, France, Germany, and Britain, is preferred, but qualified candidates with projects in other areas of the Roman Empire are encouraged to apply. Scholars who are able to make connections across disciplines and demonstrate the impact of archaeological work on a variety of fields in an undergraduate liberal arts setting are especially encouraged to apply.

Compensation and Benefits:

Rank: Post-Doctoral Fellow

The position offers a salary of $60,000, and comes with generous benefits. Affordable campus housing is available to the successful candidate, with space for family members if applicable. For more information on benefits package offered by Puget Sound, see. visit: http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/offices–services/human-resources/overview-of-university-benefit/.

About Puget Sound:

Puget Sound is a selective national liberal arts college in Tacoma, Washington, drawing 2,600 students from 48 states and 20 countries. Puget Sound is the only nationally ranked independent undergraduate liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one of just five independent colleges in the Pacific Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious academic honorary society. Visit “About Puget Sound” (http://www.pugetsound.edu/about) to learn more about the college.

Commitment to Diversity: As a department and university, we are strongly committed to creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, and working environment for all. We ask applicants to submit a diversity statement, in which they comment on their ability to contribute meaningfully to our on-going commitment to be informed and competent with regard to issues of diversity, equity, and individual differences. We encourage applicants to reference the University of Puget Sound’s current Diversity Strategic Plan (DSP) at http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/diversity-at-puget-sound/diversity-strategic-plan/ prior to writing this statement. While not an exhaustive list, the following are some ways candidates can express their qualification:

  • Your lived experiences and/or identities that speak to the department and university’s commitment to inclusion and diversity;
  • Demonstration of your awareness of inequities for underrepresented student populations in education, research experience, and other opportunities;
  • Brief insights on why diversity is important at institutions like the University of Puget Sound;
  • Infusion of diversity and related issues into your research, pedagogy, and/or service;
  • Previous and/or current activities involving mentoring underrepresented student populations;
  • Creative ideas or strategies you could enact as a member of the University of Puget Sound campus community to support the university’s DSP;
  • Brief insights on how cultural competency increases one’s effectiveness as an educator and department/university colleague.

Application Deadline: Search and selection procedures will be closed when a sufficient number of qualified candidates have been identified. Interested individuals are encouraged to submit application materials no later than March 1, 2024 to ensure consideration.

To apply, click on the following link, create an account, and submit the required documents: https://apptrkr.com/4929671

           

Required Documents:

Please submit curriculum vitae (CV) when prompted to submit resume. Additional documents can be attached within the application. Applications submitted without the documents requested below will not be considered:

  • Letter of Interest
  • Curriculum vitae, including the names of three references
  • Diversity Statement

 

All offers of employment are contingent on successful completion of a background inquiry.

The University of Puget Sound is an equal opportunity employer.

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Job Posting: Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums

Type: Full-Time

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Salary: $263,000 – 491,800

Job Summary
The next Director of the Harvard Art Museums will have the opportunity to lead the museums into its next chapter by welcoming and energizing an expanded audience base and continuing to integrate the museums into the intellectual life of the university and surrounding community.

As the chief executive of the Harvard Art Museums, the Director will maintain the museums’ position as a leader in the field and promote and support education and scholarship of the highest caliber in the visual arts at Harvard University. The Director serves as the principal ambassador for the museums to members of the campus community, alumni, and major supporters, as well as the larger public.

This is a five-year term position with the possibility of renewal.

Please refer to the Additional Information below for application instructions.

Position Description
Key Responsibilities:

  • Engage with colleagues across the Harvard community to initiate collaborations and build partnerships that enhance the museums’ ability to serve as a dynamic teaching, learning, and research resource for Harvard students, faculty, and a broad public audience.
  • Lead senior leadership direct reports, ensure they manage their staff effectively, communicating the vision clearly and providing guidance, mentorship, and support to create and sustain a collaborative and engaged community.
  • Maintain the fiscal health of the museums, actively promoting efforts in all areas to enhance fundraising, balance the budget, and responsibly manage operating costs.
  • Raise funds to ensure present and future financial stability of the museums, and to advance and sustain projects and programming that leverage the museums’ teaching and public mission. Specifically cultivate and steward benefactors and prospective donors, foundations, and other organizations that provide support to the museums.
  • Principal decision maker for all aspects of care, management, and operations of the museums, developing and implementing sound policies and procedures for the care and use of the permanent collection according to the highest professional standards, inclusive of preservation and conservation, documentation, exhibition, accessibility, interpretation, and improvement of the collection.
  • Oversee the exhibitions program, acquisitions of works of art, diverse educational outreach activities, care of collections, research and conservation, publications, and the organization of special programs and events.
  • Foster a cooperative atmosphere with faculty, students, museums staff, other Harvard colleagues, scholars, museum professionals, Director’s Advisory Council members, Curatorial Committee members, and other interested friends and benefactors.
  • Represent the museums locally, nationally, and internationally, initiating and fostering fruitful partnerships with other cultural and educational institutions, regionally and beyond.
  • Formulate long-range plans in consultation with University leaders, including those involving acquisitions policy, program design, and maintenance of the physical plant.

Basic Qualifications
Candidates MUST meet the following basic qualifications to be considered for this role:

Advanced degree in art, art history, or a field related to the museums’ collections and a minimum of seven years of senior leadership expertise in an art museum setting.

Additional Qualifications and Skills
The Director of the Harvard Art Museums should have a doctoral degree in art, art history, or a field related to the museums’ collections or a commensurate record of significant professional experience. Preference will be given to candidates with significant professional, academic, and/or scholarly achievements, including accomplishments in the field of art history, museum education, arts leadership, or a related field.

The successful candidate will be a visionary, strategic, and energetic leader who is collaborative, diplomatic and inspires confidence. For a complete description of the desired professional expertise, leadership competencies, and personal qualities, please see the contact information for Koya Partners below.

Additional Information
Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement, with Naree W.S. Viner and Stephen Milbauer as the search contacts. To express interest in this role please submit your letter of interest and CV here or email Naree and Stephen directly at harvardartmuseums_director@koyapartners.com. All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

For more information, please refer to https://diversifiedsearchgroup.com/search/20387-harvard-art-museums-elizabeth-and-john-moors-cabot-director/.

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RISD Museum | Spalter Teaching Fellowship (Summer 2024) – Due February 19, 2024

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The Spalter Teaching Fellowship is open to RISD and Brown graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds. Spalter Teaching Fellows are trained as RISD Museum educators and are responsible for teaching and working with children and youth ages 5 to 18. They undergo rigorous training with the Museum’s educators, who introduce them to the Museum’s collection and pedagogy. Fellows support learning from original works of art and the development critical thinking, problem solving, and creative interpretation.

For 2024-26, two fellowships are available in School and Teacher programs (for a RISD student and a Brown University student).

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Spalter Teaching Fellows receive $5000 per academic year and must commit to a two-year fellowship, serving up to eight hours per week. Stipends are processed at the end of each academic year. Applicants must have an anticipated graduation date of spring 2026 or later. Eligibility for those planning to study abroad will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are necessary, and a familiarity with visual art is preferred; foreign-language skills are highly desirable.

Fellows in School + Teacher programs will lead guided visits with K-12 school-aged students, training and teaching with museum educators and volunteer docents. Applicants should demonstrate a strong desire to foster object-based learning through discussion and other forms of exploration in a museum context; excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills; and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.

Fellows must be available two mornings a week between 10 am and 12 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday with occasional afternoon options on these days and Thursdays. Commitment is between two and eight hours each week (between Tuesday through Friday) to prepare and lead guided visits. Interested applicants will have experience working with children, will display a commitment to teaching from original works of art, and will show an interest in working with school-based learning and teaching.

The RISD Museum was founded on the belief that art, artists, and the institutions that support them play pivotal roles in promoting broad civic engagement and creating more open societies. We aspire to create an accessible and inclusive environment that builds meaningful relationships across all communities. Cultural competence, collaborations with diverse communities, or other areas of experience or expertise that support these goals are preferred.

Applications are due Monday, February 19, 2024. Applications must include: a cover letter answering questions; a resumé; relevant coursework; discussion of a RISD Museum object; and names and contact information of three references (phone numbers and email addresses only; no reference letters needed). Interviews will be held from late February to mid March and all applicants will be notified by the beginning of April. Training begins in early September 2024.

Spalter Fellows gain:
• Professional training and mentoring with Museum educators
• Development of teaching skills and practices
• Opportunities to connect studio practice and areas of study to the RISD Museum’s collection
• Opportunities to build relationships with schools, educators, students, and teens in Providence and across Rhode Island.

For questions regarding the Spalter Fellowship, please email museum-academic@risd.edu.

Apply now

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Episode 2 of ARCE’s 75th Anniversary Podcast

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Episode 2:

Exploring the work of the American Research Center in Egypt: How ARCE programs, fellowships, and Publications impact the field

with Dr. Yasmin El Shazly and Dr. Emily Teeter

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The ARCE 75th Anniversary Podcast series is back. The second episode will focus on ARCE’s programs and publications as well as their impact on the field.

MORE INFORMATION HERE

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Conservation and Restoration Hands-on Field School in Italy | Summer 2024

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Amelia International Conservation Studies

Immerse Yourself in Italy’s Cultural Legacy

Join a Conservation and Restoration Hands-on Field School in Italy

Amelia International Conservation Studies is now accepting applications for our summer 2024 field school in Italy. With over 23 years of experience and an international network of alumni from more than 170 colleges and universities around the world, the program at the Amelia International Conservation Studies (AICS) is devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage.Magnifying glass and old document

During this immersive program, students will have the unique opportunity to study in Italy, gaining invaluable hands-on experience in restoration and conservation. Courses are designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the science, ethics, and practical skills necessary for historic preservation.

Program Details:
June 10 – July 5, 2024

1. Stone Conservation: Science and Ethics in Historic Preservation
   – Restoration of Historic Monuments
– History, Theory, and Ethics of Restoration
(Program includes lectures and restoration field projects*)

2. Preserving our Past: Paper Conservation for Art and Archives
   – Paper Media and Restoration Methods for Artworks
– Handwritten and Printed Archival Materials Restoration Methods
(Program includes lectures and restoration workshop*)

3. Experiencing Traditional Painting Materials, Methods and Restoration Issues – in the workshop of a Maestro
   – Traditional painting materials and methods
– History, Theory, and Ethics of Restoration
(Program includes lectures and painting workshop)

*Field Projects:
· In the courtyard of Amelia’s Town Hall, there is a small open-air Antiquarium that houses a collection of significant architectural artifacts. These relics serve as a testament to the rich history of Roman Amerίa, as well as the medieval and Renaissance periods. The collection includes columns, architraves, sarcophaguses, and various other structures crafted from exquisite marbles imported from colonies across the Mediterranean Sea. Notably, the collection features the prized “Africano” marble, which despite its name, actually originates from Asia Minor. These artifacts showcase various alterations, deteriorations, and past restorations, providing students with vital hands-on experience to apply the knowledge gained in the classroom.

·    Restoration and conservation of artifacts from the archaeological museum of Amelia

·    Restoration of the Historic Archives of the Commune di Amelia

FLYER 2024

AICS is a program of the Art Restoration and Conservation International Field School, based in Rome, Italy. It has established cooperation agreements with the Municipality of Amelia to study and conserve artworks and archaeological objects held in their museums, as well as a collaboration with the Historic Archives of the Commune di Amelia for AICS participants to study and conserve archival documents.

The program welcomes students from various disciplines, both undergraduate and graduate, to join us for this incredible learning experience. All courses are conducted in English, ensuring accessibility for students from diverse backgrounds.

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For further information, including application deadlines and requirements, please visit our website at

Art Restoration and Conservation International Field School

  

ARCIFS S.R.L.
Via dei Sabelli 10
Rome, Lazio, 00185
ITALY

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ARIT Lecture – Medieval Kastoria | December 18, 2023

Medieval mapAn in-person and online lecture with Professor Nuray Ocaklı, Department of History, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University:

The Silk Industry of Late Medieval Kastoria: 

Orthodox Christian Craftswomen, Romaniote Jews, and Cuman/Kipchak Tribes

Date: December 18, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm İstanbul, 10:00 am New York
ANAMED Auditorium, İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu

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ARCE’s Fellowship Opportunities | Deadline January 31, 2024

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ARCE has just opened its annual fellowship applications!

ARCE fellows have conducted research in various fields such as archaeology, Egyptology, architecture, fine art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature and so much more.

Applicants can now apply to: the ARCE-CAORC Research Fellowship, the Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, the Theodore N. Romanoff Prize, the Short-Term Research Grant for Postdoctoral, Adjunct Faculty and Independent Scholars, and finally, the William P. McHugh Memorial Fund.

Deadline to apply: January 31st, 2024.  

Apply Now

 

 

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