Category Archives: Funding, Scholarships, Fellowships & Prizes

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Junior Research Fellowship Competition 2021 (Non-stipendiary), Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, deadline 5 October 2020

Wolfson College invites applications for up to ten non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships under Title BI.

Fellowship: Teaching Fellow in History of Art, University of Edinburgh, deadline 7 August 2020 5pm

The University of Edinburgh invites applications from specialists in the visual and material court culture of Northern Europe, c. 1400-1800. We welcome versatile applicants who have secondary interests in areas of high student need and who are able to incorporate material from the University’s Centre for Research Collections into their teaching.

Dissertation Prize: Association for Art History Dissertation Prizes 2020, deadline 1 October 2020 & 1 December 2020

The Association for Art History Dissertation Prize is awarded each year. There are two awards: one for undergraduate dissertations and one for postgraduate (Master’s-level) dissertations. The 2020 prize is for dissertations written during the 2019-20 academic year.

Postdoctoral Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of English, University of Kent, deadline 16 August 2020

Do you have a PhD or equivalent and experience in late medieval literary studies? Are you looking for research role that will put to use your knowledge, experience and interest in this area? The University of Kent and Queen’s University Belfast are embarking upon a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the theory that London citizens created new programmes of religious education for both the City’s clergy and for literate lay communities that have hitherto gone largely unnoticed by scholarship.

Job: Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, deadline 20 August 2020

Radboud University Nijmegen is advertising a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8FTE) to be part of the research team of the ERC-funded project Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages. The dissemination, manipulation and interpretation of Late-Antique sermons in the Medieval Latin West (PASSIM).

Fellowship: I Tatti/DHI Rom Joint Fellowship for African Studies (2021-2022), deadline 16 November 2020

I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. The fellowship offers post-doctoral scholars working on African studies (or topics that closely consider Africa) a ten-month position to conduct historical research in Italy supported by two institutes with dynamic academic communities. Fellows will spend five months (September 1, 2021 – January 30, 2022) in Rome at the DHI and five months (February 1 – June 30, 2022) in Florence at I Tatti.

Essay Prize: XXI Medievalism Prize, Sociedad Española Estudios Medievales, deadline 31 December 2020

The XXI Medievalism Prize welcomes applications according to the following bases: Participants may not be older than 30 years and must be members of the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies in active service, that is, up to date with their annual quota. The work presented will deal with topics related to any manifestation of the Middle Ages,Continue reading “Essay Prize: XXI Medievalism Prize, Sociedad Española Estudios Medievales, deadline 31 December 2020”

Fellowships: Harvard University Society of Fellows Junior Fellowships 2021, deadline 7 August 2020

The purpose of the Harvard University Society of Fellows 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, and should be of the highestContinue reading “Fellowships: Harvard University Society of Fellows Junior Fellowships 2021, deadline 7 August 2020”