Rare Book School Fellowship Opportunity

The Lang Fellowship is a two-year program designed to animate humanities teaching and equip educators to enlarge their students’ historical sensibilities through bibliographically informed instruction with original historical sources. The deadline is 30 November 2020.

The fellowship includes tuition wavers for two RBS courses, an annual stipend of $1,500 for travel, housing, and other costs related to the Fellow’s RBS course attendance, and the opportunity to apply for matching funds of up to $1,000 per year of the fellowship to further the Fellow’s efforts to foster book-historical humanities teaching at their home institution.

The goal of the Lang Fellowship program is to re-seed American colleges and small universities with humanities teachers who make maximal use of special collections resources in their undergraduate courses. Fellows will take two RBS classes: an introductory course, “Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching,” required of all participants during their first year, and an elective course from the extensive RBS course offerings. RBS courses are intensive, five-day, hands-on classes about the study of and care for manuscript, print, and digital textual objects. Taught by an international faculty of experts, RBS classes are held in Charlottesville, VA, as well as at a number of our partner institutions.

Lang Fellows will also be encouraged to help make book-historical humanities teaching with original primary sources a central aspect of the local educational culture. To this end, fellows will be eligible to apply for the aforementioned matching funds of up to $1,000 per year of the fellowship to help improve their own teaching, create student-learning experiences, build book-historical culture on campus, foster book-related public outreach programs, or organize an event to raise awareness about humanities teaching with original textual artifacts.

The Lang Fellowship is open to employees of liberal arts colleges and small universities (defined as institutions which do not award earned doctorates in any field) in the United States who are:

  • full-time tenured faculty
  • full-time tenure-track faculty who have passed their third-year review, or
  • full-time library/curatorial staff members.

For more information about program details, please visit:
https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/lang/

Inquiries about the M. C. Lang Fellowship can be directed to rbs_scholarships@virginia.edu.

RBS is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socio-economic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents. We apologize for cross-posting this announcement broadly in trying to reach a broad range of eligible applicants; we would be grateful to you if you would consider passing this announcement on to anyone you know who might be interested.

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ASCSA William Sanders Scarborough Fellowships: Deadline Extended

THE WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH FELLOWSHIPS
DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 1, 2020

Due to the difficulties of the current academic semester and the uncertainties surrounding the coming academic year, the deadline for the William Sanders Scarborough Fellowships has been extended to December 1, 2020. We want to assure applicants that the School will continue to adapt to the changing global health situation in accommodating all fellows.

This fellowship is intended to honor Professor William Sanders Scarborough’s memory and to help foster diversity in the fields of Classical and Hellenic Studies and the Humanities more broadly by supporting students and teachers from underrepresented groups in their study and research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

William Sanders Scarborough (1852–1926), the son of an enslaved woman and a freedman, was a pathbreaking African American Classical scholar and public intellectual. Scarborough’s scholarship included philological works on Greek and Roman authors, as well as studies of African languages and African American folklore. His First Lessons in Greek (1881) was the first foreign language textbook by an African American author. He taught at Ohio’s Wilberforce University and Payne Theological Seminary, serving as Wilberforce’s president from 1908–1920. At least twice in his life (1886 and 1896), Scarborough hoped to attend the American School, with the encouragement of the School’s Managing Committee. Lack of funding, coupled with his many professional responsibilities, kept Scarborough from realizing his dream of going to Greece.

Eligibility:  Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars residing in the United States or Canada, regardless of citizenship, whose geographic origin, diverse experiences, and socio-economic background are underrepresented at the School (including persons from the Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color communities), and whose studies, research, or teaching would benefit from residency at the School. Fellowship recipients need not be specialists in the field of Classical Studies. The School welcomes applicants from public and private universities, colleges, and community colleges, and particularly encourages those from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Terms and Duration:  The fellowship supports up to three months in residence at the School to carry out proposed research projects and/or join the School’s academic programs (field trips and seminars during the regular academic year or the summer, excavations at the Agora or Corinth, scientific field schools, etc.). Applicants interested in using the fellowship to participate in summer programs should submit separate applications to programs of interest. The summer programs for 2021 are already largely filled with deferred applicants from 2020. Applicants to the Scarborough fellowship program wishing to be considered for summer programs in 2021 should contact the ASCSA Programs Administrator at application@ascsa.org for further guidance. Awards granted in the 2020 competition should normally be used between June 1, 2021 and May 30, 2022.

Each of the awards provides for $1500 per month (rounded upwards to the nearest whole month to a maximum of 3 month) as a stipend. The fellowship covers the costs of room and board in Athens, a waiver of any applicable School fees, and one roundtrip economy-class airfare to Athens. The School intends to make up to four such awards each year.

Application: Submit an online application here, https://ascsa.submittable.com/submit/171376/william-sanders-scarborough-fellowship. A complete application will include:

  • A 2-page, single-spaced, statement indicating your eligibility, describing the proposed use of the fellowship including any formal program at the School you plan to apply for, the proposed timeframe for your work at the School, and your research project (as applicable).
  • A curriculum vitae.
  • A copy of current transcripts (for student applicants).
  • Arrange for two letters of recommendation. Once an online application is submitted, recommenders will be sent an automated email with instructions about how to submit their letters of recommendation. Recommenders will be asked to upload their letters via the online application system, Submittable. It is also acceptable for recommenders to submit letters directly to this email address: application@ascsa.org.

Web site: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral
E-mail: application@ascsa.org
Award decisions will be announced in March 2021.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment.

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Call for Contributions: Communication, Consolidation, and Change: Epistolary Cultures and the Medieval Cloister (Sanctimoniales 3)

Call for contributions:

Communication, Consolidation, and Change: Epistolary Cultures and the Medieval Cloister (Sanctimoniales 3)

This volume will examine letters in the cloister, from the cloister, and about the cloister in the context of medieval and early modern female religious communities. The aim is to explore the ways in which letters create, consolidate, and change social and spiritual relationships, thus undermining (or reinforcing) the strict requirements of active and passive enclosure. While other forms of communication (eg personal visits and conversations at talking-windows) took place at the boundaries of the enclosure, letters sent or received could penetrate monastery walls and escape the control of others, possibly  through private reading.

We particularly welcome contributions that explore the following four thematic constellations:

Presence and absence: How and in what contexts did religious women and lay people write about the cloister? How did cloistered women use letters to make themselves present in the world? What rhetorical strategies did both senders and recipients deploy to overcome obstacles to social participation?

Proximity and distance: How were letters (either singly or in more extensive epistolary exchanges) used to create personal relationships between writers and receivers? How could letters convey emotion? What can letters reveal about the economic side of women’s religious communities through references to gifts and (sales) purchases of other objects. What light can letters shed on the exchange of material goods between the monastery and the world?

Conflict: How did letters function as a means of conflict resolution either within or beyond the enclosure? What potential did letters themselves present for creating unrest, for example, when internal conflicts within a community were communicated to individuals beyond the enclosure, or when the response to epistolary reports of economic or social situations outside the monastery divided a community?

Education and epistolary culture: What can letters reveal about proficiency in writing and level of education? To what extent did medieval and early modern religious women participate in the epistolary culture of their time? Is the history of early humanism in the monastery a male history; did humanism stop at the walls of women’s religious communities?

Communication, Consolidation, and Change: Epistolary Cultures of the Medieval Cloister will be edited by Alison I. Beach, Anne Diekjobst, and Agnes Schormann for Sanctimoniales: Religious Women – Geistliche Frauen, a series published by Brepols. Sanctimoniales aims to present a full range of research on religious women in the European Middle Ages and early modern period. One of the main goals of the series is to promote academic exchange between German- and English-speaking researchers. We thus seek contributions that reflect diverse research traditions and methodological approaches, and we welcome contributions that explore the social, economic, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of life in medieval women’s religious communities.

The deadline for short abstracts is 1 December 2020. For submissions or for further information, please contact Alison Beach (aib4 (at) st-andrews.ac.uk), Anne Diekjobst (adiekjobst (at) histosem.uni-kiel.de), or Agnes Schormann (agnes.schormann (at) unifr.ch).

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ASCSA Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Funding Opportunities

The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Funding Opportunities

The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens currently offers two different types of Fellowship funding: a pre-doctoral or postdoctoral Research Associate position of up to nine months, as well as a pre-doctoral (2-year term) and a post-doctoral (3-year term) position. Applicants are welcome from any college or university worldwide. Independent scholars are also welcome to apply.

Priority will be given to question-driven research projects that address substantive problems through the application of interdisciplinary methods in the archaeological sciences. Wiener Laboratory facilities are especially well equipped to support the study of human skeletal biology, archaeobiological remains (faunal and botanical), environmental studies, and geoarchaeology (particularly studies in humanlandscape interactions and the study of site formation processes). Research projects utilizing other archaeological scientific approaches are also eligible for consideration, depending on the strength of the questions asked and the suitability of the plan for access to other equipment or resources not available on site in the Wiener Laboratory.

Research Associate for 2021-2022

  • Current competition begins in fall of 2020 for the 2021-2022 academic year (January 15, 2021 deadline for applications)
  • Term variable, up to 9 months
  • Eligibility limited to individuals actively enrolled in a graduate program and individuals with a higher-level degree in a relevant discipline
  • Stipend: variable up to $7,000

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 2021-2023

  • Current competition begins in fall of 2020 for the 2021-2023 term (January 15, 2021 deadline for applications)
  • 2-year term
  •  Eligibility limited to individuals actively enrolled in a graduate program who have passed all qualifying exams and have an approved PhD proposal.
  • Stipend: $20,000 per annum

Programmatic Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2021-2024

  • Current competition begins in fall 2020 for the 2021-2024 academic years (January 15, 2021 deadline for applications)
  • 3-year term
  • Eligibility limited to any archaeological project affiliated with the ASCSA, current and former permit holders. A specific candidate for the fellowship must be named in the application who has received their PhD and has a demonstrable record of research and publication directly relevant to the project.
  • Stipend: $35,000 per annum

For more information and instructions on how to apply:
https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/wiener-laboratory/fellowships-and-research-associate-appointments

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation,  color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment.

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ASCSA William Sanders Scarborough Fellowships

The William Sanders Scarborough Fellowships

Deadline: November 1, 2020

This fellowship is intended to honor Professor William Sanders Scarborough’s memory and to help foster diversity in the fields of Classical and Hellenic Studies and the Humanities more broadly by supporting students and teachers from underrepresented groups in their study and research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

William Sanders Scarborough (1852–1926), the son of an enslaved woman and a freedman, was a pathbreaking African American Classical scholar and public intellectual. Scarborough’s scholarship included philological works on Greek and Roman authors, as well as studies of African languages and African American folklore. His First Lessons in Greek (1881) was the first foreign language textbook by an African American author. He taught at Ohio’s Wilberforce University and Payne Theological Seminary, serving as Wilberforce’s president from 1908–1920. At least twice in his life (1886 and 1896), Scarborough hoped to attend the American School, with the encouragement of the School’s Managing Committee. Lack of funding, coupled with his many professional responsibilities, kept Scarborough from realizing his dream of going to Greece.

Eligibility:  Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars residing in the United States or Canada, regardless of citizenship, whose geographic origin, diverse experiences, and socio-economic background are underrepresented at the School (including persons from the Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color communities), and whose studies, research, or teaching would benefit from residency at the School. Fellowship recipients need not be specialists in the field of Classical Studies. The School welcomes applicants from public and private universities, colleges, and community colleges, and particularly encourages those from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Terms and Duration:  The fellowship supports up to three months in residence at the School to carry out proposed research projects and/or join the School’s academic programs (field trips and seminars during the regular academic year or the summer, excavations at the Agora or Corinth, scientific field schools, etc.). Applicants interested in using the fellowship to participate in summer programs should submit separate applications to programs of interest. The summer programs for 2021 are already largely filled with deferred applicants from 2020. Applicants to the Scarborough fellowship program wishing to be considered for summer programs in 2021 should contact the ASCSA Programs Administrator at application@ascsa.org for further guidance. Awards granted in the 2020 competition should normally be used between June 1, 2021 and May 30, 2022.

Each of the awards provides for $1500 per month (rounded upwards to the nearest whole month to a maximum of 3 month) as a stipend. The fellowship covers the costs of room and board in Athens, a waiver of any applicable School fees, and one roundtrip economy-class airfare to Athens. The School intends to make up to four such awards each year.

Application: Submit an online application here, https://ascsa.submittable.com/submit/171376/william-sanders-scarborough-fellowship. A complete application will include:

  • A 2-page, single-spaced, statement indicating your eligibility, describing the proposed use of the fellowship including any formal program at the School you plan to apply for, the proposed timeframe for your work at the School, and your research project (as applicable).
  • A curriculum vitae.
  • A copy of current transcripts (for student applicants).
  • Arrange for two letters of recommendation. Once an online application is submitted, recommenders will be sent an automated email with instructions about how to submit their letters of recommendation. Recommenders will be asked to upload their letters via the online application system, Submittable. It is also acceptable for recommenders to submit letters directly to this email address: application@ascsa.org.

Web site: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral
E-mail: application@ascsa.org
Award decisions will be announced in March 2021.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment.

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Call for Papers – Learning and Scholarship in Medieval Northwestern Europe

CFP for Learning and Scholarship in Medieval Northwestern Europe, organised by PhD researchers in the Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute at Ulster University.

The foundation of Iona by Colm Cille in 563 was the pinnacle in the spread of Christianity and Christian learning in Ireland and Britain in the early Middle Ages. Monastic libraries and the use of their collections, especially by those such as Bede and Adomnán, marked the importance of textual learning, as well as the production and preservation of both secular and religious texts. As 2021 marks the 1500th anniversary of Colm Cille’s “birth” in 521, using the role and influence of Iona in medieval learned culture as an example, this two-day online conference seeks papers focused specifically on learning and scholarship in early to late medieval northwestern Europe. Broadly defined, this includes Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, France, and Germany. We welcome individual proposals for twenty-minute papers focused on literature, history, paleography, art, and archaeology; some topics might include (but are not limited to):

  • The foundation and role of monasteries as centres of learning in Northwest Europe
  • Secular and religious texts (i.e. hagiography, chronicles, law) commissioned by ecclesiastics and/or nobility
  • Medieval secular and religious authors
  • The relationship between monasteries and their secular communities
  • Individual learned figures and their influence
  • Modern interpretations of medieval learning or learned figures in folklore or creative literature

We welcome papers in English or Irish from PhD scholars and early career researchers by 18 December 2020.

Papers will be presented via Blackboard Collaborate.

Abstracts should be of no more than 250 words and sent as PDF attachments to LSNWE@outlook.com including a title and a brief biography, as well as three keywords.

The contributors will be informed if their abstract is accepted by 9 January 2021.

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/topic/modern-languages-linguistics/quality/conferences/lsnwe?fbclid=IwAR0wwkSQNlrSeoDu6AYqzRfyLgolZNMc726UsI7Y3NOKw_9vZaGtn0mKrYg

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Call for Papers – Movement: 2021 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium

The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its thirty-first annual graduate student colloquium (MSSC). The conference will take place on the 26th and the 27th of March, to be held virtually over Zoom.

This year’s colloquium focuses on the theme of movement. Movement denotes the movement of peoples, cultures, thoughts and goods, the migration of plants and of animals. What happens to movement when it is frozen in stone (the swoop of hair across a person’s face in a marble statue)? How does an idea change when it is translated from one language to another? We are interested in movement defined broadly and represented across a range of disciplines.

We invite 20-minute papers that investigate movement in the Middle Ages as defined by/within a range of different disciplines and perspectives. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • The migration of people, animals, and plants;
  • Cultures of movement;
  • Translation and adaptation (of cultures, languages, etc.);
  • Traditions that involve physical or spiritual movement;
  • Cosmology and the movement of celestial bodies;
  • Trade and movement in economics;
  • The stagnation or absence of “movement;”
  • Detainment;
  • The representation of “movement;”
  • Displacement, dispersal, or diaspora;
  • Moving into the “unknown;”
  • Temporal movement;
  • Effects of movement;
  • Ethics of movement.

Preference will be given to papers from underrepresented backgrounds and disciplines. We strongly encourage submissions that expand these themes and categories of inquiry beyond Christian, Western European contexts. We invite submissions in all disciplines allied to Medieval Studies, including Asian Studies, Africana Studies, Critical Race Studies, Near Eastern Studies, literature, history, the history of art, archaeology, philosophy, classics, theology, and others. Abstracts on all topics will be considered, though priority will be given to those which address our thematic strand.

Please send papers by January 15, 2021 to Alice Wolff at acw262@cornell.edu.

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Medieval Women, Modern Readers Wikipedia-Edit-a-Thon

Medieval Women, Modern Readers Wikipedia-Edit-a-Thon
28th October 2020, 13:00-16:00 GMT (UK)

Medievalists around the world are invited to our #medievalwiki session, creating and editing Wikipedia articles. We are especially keen to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of medieval race, gender and sexuality, and want to create and add to articles about medieval women and their contemporary readers, especially people of colour and queer scholars, translators and artists.

Wikipedia experts and newbies alike are encouraged to attend – we will begin with a 30-minute introduction, we will have experts on hand to help, and there will be regular Zoom check-ins throughout. If you can’t make the online session, we would love for people to make edits throughout the week and share them using the #medievalwiki hashtag.

While we call ourselves #medievalwiki, friendly feminists from all disciplines or none are welcome to join us!

More info here: https://medievalwomenwiki.wordpress.com/

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/medievalwiki-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-28-october-2020-tickets-124286555433?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

Dr Beth Whalley | Honorary Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Bristol

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Jobs for Medievalists

The Department of History at Christendom College seeks to hire an assistant professor of medieval history for a full-time position starting 15 August 2021. Normally, candidates will already hold a PhD, but we will consider applications from highly-qualified ABD candidates whose progress to degree completion is far advanced. This is an entry-level position.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastically committed to undergraduate education and will teach a 4/4 load of courses, including core courses in our four-part western civ. survey (especially HIST 101 and 102) as well as upper-level electives in medieval history. The field of specialization within medieval history is open, and our professors are encouraged both to teach courses currently listed in our Academic Bulletin and to develop new courses in their areas of expertise. The successful candidate will integrate teaching excellence with professional scholarly engagement and with service to the institution. The history program was inspired by the work of the College’s founding president and first chair of the department, Dr. Warren H. Carroll.  Ability to mentor students, including those aiming for graduate school, is an advantage.

Located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Christendom College is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college whose faculty members take an annual, voluntary oath of fidelity to the Magisterium of the Church. Our faculty members affirm the harmony of faith and reason in the pursuit of academic excellence and especially follow the educational vision set out by St. John Paul II in Ex Corde Ecclesiae. For more information on the Christendom Mission and Vision statements, curriculum, and student life, see www.christendom.edu.

Review of applications will begin December 7, 2020.

Interested applicants should provide the following: 1) a Curriculum Vitae; 2) a letter of application that includes discussion of teaching experience and philosophy, research interests and goals, the relationship of research interests to teaching, and overall contributions the candidate could make in service of the mission of Christendom College; 3) three letters of recommendation; 4) graduate transcripts; 5) a sample of scholarly writing; 6) evaluations of undergraduate teaching (if available). Please send all application materials to Dr. Christopher Lane, Chair of the History Department, at historysearch@christendom.edu. Any other inquiries about the position may be sent to Dr. Lane at clane@christendom.edu.

Graduate transcripts should also be sent to:
Professor Greg Townsend, PhD
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Christendom College
134 Christendom Drive
Front Royal, VA 22630

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Funding Opportunities for the ASCSA Gennadius Library, 2021-2022

FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY 2021-2022

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the academic programs and fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year at the Gennadius Library. Opened in 1926 with 26,000 volumes from diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius, the Gennadius Library now holds a richly diverse collection of over 146,000 books and rare bindings, archives, manuscripts, and works of art illuminating the Hellenic tradition and neighboring cultures. The Library has become an internationally renowned center for the study of Greek history, literature, and art, especially from the Byzantine period to modern times.
COTSEN TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP FOR RESEARCH IN GREECE: Short-term travel award of $2,000 for senior scholars and graduate students, for work at the Gennadius Library. Open to all nationalities. At least one month of residency required. School fees are waived for a maximum of two months.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2021.

THE GEORGE PAPAIOANNOU FELLOWSHIP: Ph.D. candidates or recent PhDs writing on Greece in the 1940’s and the post-war period, civil wars and the history of the Second World War. Fellows are required to make use of the George Papaioannou Papers housed at the Archives of the ASCSA. Open to all nationalities. School fees are waived for a maximum of two months. Stipend of €2,000.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2022. Runs every other year.

THE M. ALISON FRANTZ FELLOWSHIP: Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s from colleges or universities in the U.S. or Canada, for work in the Gennadius Library for the full academic year. Stipend of $11,500 plus room, board, and waiver of School fees.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2021.

MEDIEVAL GREEK SUMMER SESSION AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY: Graduate students and university professors in any field of late antique, post-antique, Byzantine or medieval studies at any university worldwide. Month-long program in intermediate level Medieval Greek language and philology at the Gennadius Library, with site and museum trips. Up to twelve scholarships available.
DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2021.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH) FELLOWSHIPS: Awards for postdoctoral scholars and professionals in the humanities, not only limited to work at the Gennadius Library. Terms: Two to four fellows will be selected for awards of 4, 5, or 9 months duration. The monthly stipend per fellow is $4,200 allocated from a total pool of $75,600 per year. U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have been U.S. residents for three years before application deadline. Candidates must hold the Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree at time of application.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 31, 2020
Please forward this announcement to eligible students or colleagues you may know who are working on a project in post-classical studies and encourage them to apply. For further information, consult the ASCSAwebsite at: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/gennadius-library/educational-programs/fellowships

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