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On January 23, 2025

https://sites.harvard.edu/aspr/2024/12/09/aspr-workshop/

The American School of Prehistoric Research at Harvard University will be organizing a science communication fellowship this spring led by Dr. Bridget Alex.

The program, which will run for about two months in April and May, is intended for students and early career scholars researching Old World prehistory who would like to gain hands-on experience in public writing and multimedia communication. The selected applicants, whom we hope will be regionally diverse, will attend one in-person workshop at Harvard University and several virtual trainings led by professional science writers and journalists. At the end of the fellowship, the participants will have the opportunity to publish a story in SAPIENS magazine about their research.

This will be a great opportunity for scholars of old world prehistory to hone their science communication skills and learn how to make their research accessible to a non-academic audience.

Fondazione Lemmermann 2025 Fellowship Award for Research in Rome

On December 9, 2024

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:

be enrolled in a recognized higher education program or affiliated with a research institute;
have a basic knowledge of the Italian language;
be born after March 31st, 1989.

DEADLINE:
Next deadline for sending applications is March 31st, 2025.

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

TO APPLY:
The following documents are required:

A research proposal that includes a description of the area of study;
Two recommendation letters;
A curriculum vitae;
A photocopy of the applicant’s passport, ID Card, or birth certificate.

For more information on how to apply, please view the official posting here.

Position Announcement | Fellowship in Critical Classical Studies

On December 9, 2024

In Funding & Fellowships, Position Announcements

The Department of Classics at Brown University invites applications for two (2) two-year, non-renewable Postdoctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies to begin July 1, 2025. We seek junior colleagues with terminal degrees (either Ph.D. or MFA) whose work directly addresses the classicization of the Ancient Greeks and Romans; critiques the structures of power, exclusion, erasure, and violence that have scaffolded past and present models of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (i.e. Classics); and/or speculates about alternative models to studying these ancient cultures and others. Successful applicants will be appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associates.

The Fellowship is open to areas of research and creative practice not traditionally housed within Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (e.g. art, film, creative writing, translation studies, political science, language pedagogy, higher education studies, public humanities, museum studies, indigenous studies, decolonial studies, performance or performance history, music) and to more traditional subfields (e.g. art history, literary studies/philology, archaeology, ancient history, philosophy, reception studies). Ideal candidates position their work’s intervention in relation to other disciplines, fields, institutions, and/or industries. They prioritize making contributions to academic, artistic, and/or activist communities. The work can take the form of traditional scholarship (e.g. monographs and articles) or be pedagogical, public-facing, creative, or otherwise trans/inter/extra-disciplinary.

The fellows selected in this competition will join fellows already in residence and form a community committed to refining methodologies well established at Brown and in the field as well as to co-developing new approaches to Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

Brown University seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing, learning, and creating. Therefore, the Department of Classics particularly welcomes applications from members of groups that have been minoritized and underrepresented in academia. A required application form asks every applicant to summarize their approach to and experience in creating equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities. This history might include academic teaching, mentoring, and service, activism, or other forms of community engagement and leadership.

In lieu of formal teaching responsibilities, fellows will be given the time and support necessary to complete their projects during the fellowship term and to share those projects with communities on and off-campus. Each fellow should expect to host one departmental event (e.g. lecture, symposium, performance, screening) and one informal event (e.g. workshop, interview, open rehearsal, table read, write-on-site) that prioritize graduate students in the Department of Classics each academic year. They will also participate in regular cohort-building and mentoring activities.

Each fellow will earn a salary of $65,000 in year 1 and $70,000 in year 2. In addition to a full benefits package, each fellow will receive a research fund of $10,000 and access to a shared office space. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the full term of the fellowship and, if applicable, will receive a $3,000 moving allowance to ease the burden of relocation.

Further information, including application details, can be found here.

Any questions should be directed towards the chair of the Search Committee, Dr. Sasha-Mae Eccleston.

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On October 23, 2024

ARCE is Now Accepting US Fellowship Applications For the 2025 Cycle!

Funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural affairs through a grant to the Council of American Overseas Research Center (CAORC), ARCE offers long-term 3 to 12 month fellowships.

These opportunities include but are not limited to:

ARCE-funded fellowships support intellectuals interested in conducting academic research in Egypt on various topics. We invite heritage enthusiats to carry out research in diverse fields such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, fire art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music. Our fellows have landed prestigious jobs such as directors and faculty of Middle Eastern studies and history departments at leading universities, in the United States and abroad, and curators of Egyptian and Near Eastern art major museums and research institutions.

Decades of close collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) and Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) enable ARCE to provide fellows with administrative support and advice that eases access to Egyptian museums, monuments, archaeological sites, research libraries, archives and Egyptian institutions of higher education.

Other fellowship opportunities include:

The Theodore N. Romanoff Prize for doctoral candidates (ABD) and recent Ph.D. recipients (degree granted between 2018-2023) conducting research on the language or historical texts of ancient Egypt, including the Coptic language.
The William P. McHugh Memorial Fund grant for pre-doctoral students regardless of nationality to encourage the study of Egyptian geo-archaeology, paleo-archaeology, and prehistory.
Research associates who will receive the same administrative support in terms of clearances, permissions and mentoring as ARCE Fellows, but do not receive funding.

Make sure to submit your online application by January 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST.

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Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) & Research Supporting Members (RSM) Grants

On October 16, 2024

Applications for ARCE’s 2025-2026 Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) & Research Supporting Members (RSM) Grants Are Live

Created with resources from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as allocated by the U.S. Congress, ARCE’s Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) sustains an ongoing grants program to support the conservation, preservation and documentation of Egypt’s cultural heritage and the dissemination of knowledge about that heritage.

ARCE is offering a short-term AEF grant (for up to one year) which is designed for highly focused professional projects who serve the cultural heritage needs of Egyptian antiquities that are more than 100 years old. Projects may include the actual preservation or protection of sites, buildings or objects; the participation of conservators or other suitable specialists in antiquities projects; the training of both conservators and students; or the production of publications and presentations that disseminate knowledge about Egypt’s cultural heritage.

ARCE is also accepting applications for The Archaeological Field Research Grant which is open only to current Research Supporting Members (RSM) of ARCE. The purpose of this program is to provide funding to conduct empirical, archaeological research in Egypt at sites that date from prehistory to 100 years old.

AEF and RSM grants only support direct project costs, indirect costs are not allowable. The budget allows for highly specific expenses to be included. Applications should be denominated in U.S. Dollars; ARCE is not responsible for currency fluctuations. Priority will be given to those publication projects that further the AEF mission of excavation, documentation, and conservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage.

The application process for the short-term grant AEF grant and the RSM grant takes place annually. All applications must be prepared and submitted in English. We encourage you to send a draft proposal via email to aef@arce.org before December 20, 2024, to which ARCE’s Program staff will respond with suggesstions and advice.

Application deadline is 12 midnight EST on February 15th, 2025.

Apply here

ARCE 2025 Annual Meeting Student Access Grant

On October 7, 2024

Apply Now for the ARCE Annual Meeting Student Access Grant (SAG)!

ARCE recognizes that there are many barriers that students face in the field of Egyptology. As an organization that hosts, arguably, the most significant Egyptology academic conference in the United States, we recognize our responsibility in creating pathways for students, especially those with financial need, to access the annual meeting, and in doing so, hopefully the field as well.

In recognition of this duty, ARCE is dedicated to offering a maximum of five (5) grants each year. Total grants awarded, however, may vary dependent on available funds achieved through fundraising.

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Student Access Grant (SAG) provides support for students to attend the in-person Annual Meeting (AM), with the ultimate goal being the creation of additional pathways to participation in the AM and, consequently, within the field of Egyptology.

The grant will cover a student’s hotel room for a maximum 4 nights, meeting registration, and up to $500 in travel.

Application Deadline: December 13, 2024 11:59 PM EST.

For the eligibility criteria & application: click HERE.

Met Fellowship Program 2025–2026

On October 7, 2024

Learn more about the types of fellowships offered.

The application for the 2025–2026 Met Fellowship Program is open!

Each year, we cultivate a close-knit community of scholars whose intellectual interests and research collectively illuminate The Met collection, comprising artworks spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. We encourage fellows to expand on existing avenues of research and explore new ones throughout their time at the Museum.

Deadline for all application materials (including letters of recommendation):

History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowships: October 18, 5 pm ET
Interdisciplinary Fellowships: October 18, 5 pm ET
Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships in Modern Art: October 18, 5 pm ET
Eugene V. Thaw Fellowship for Collections Cataloguing: October 18, 5 pm ET
Conservation Fellowship and Scientific Research Fellowship: November 13, 5 pm ET

For questions, please contact Academic.Programs@metmuseum.org.

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Call for Applications | 2025-2026 Getty Scholar Program at the Villa

On September 16, 2024

In Funding & Fellowships, Uncategorized

The J. Paul Getty Museum is pleased to announce the research theme for the 2025 – 2026 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, “Religious Experience in Antiquity.” Applications for residential scholar grants are due on 1 October 2024 by 5pm PDT.

Annual Theme: Religious Experience in Antiquity

A multitude of religions flourished in the Mediterranean and beyond from the second millennium BCE through the Late Roman era. Addressing the diversity of faiths and rituals, scholars will consider the consequences of contact between the Greek and Roman worlds and neighboring civilizations of the Near East, Africa, and transalpine Europe. The intersection of religions entailed continuity and coexistence as well as intolerance and conflict. Conquest, commerce, migration, and the foundation of “international” sanctuaries facilitated new forms of worship. These interactions, which both reflected and shaped religious experience, were widely manifested in art and material culture. Engaging systems of belief that range from state-sponsored religion and local cults to private devotion, researchers will investigate how communities reconciled the spiritually charged and socially fluid landscapes around them.

The Getty Scholars Program at the Villa focuses on the Classical World in Context, a multi-year initiative to explore the interconnectivity between the ancient Mediterranean region and the cultures of Africa and Eurasia. Priority will be given to research projects that apply interdisciplinary, comparative, transregional, and diachronic approaches to art, material culture, literature, and other sources for the study of antiquity.

Deadline: 1 October 2024 by 5pm PDT

How to Apply: The research theme statement, as well as detailed instructions, eligibility requirements, and a link to apply are available online.

Eligibility: Residential grants are available for established scholars who have attained distinction in their fields and received their PhD more than 5 years ago.

Address inquiries to:

Attn: (Type of Grant)

The Getty Foundation

Phone: 310.440.7374

E-mail: VillaScholars@getty.edu; researchgrants@getty.edu

ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 2024-2025

On September 16, 2024