Apply now for: John Phillip PhD Scholarship in Spanish art and visual culture at the School of Art History
The School of Art History at the University of St Andrews is delighted to invite applications for the John Phillip Doctoral Scholarship in Spanish Art and Visual Culture, to start in September 2020.
Generously funded by the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH), the doctoral scholarship is named after the nineteenth-century Scottish artist John Phillip (1817-1867), who travelled extensively in Spain, and whose work was strongly inspired by the art of Velázquez and Murillo.
The scholarship is available to both Home/EU and Overseas candidates, and is tenable for three years (full-time). It is a full scholarship, covering tuition fees, plus an annual stipend of £15,285 for living expenses, and an annual research allowance of £5,000.
The scholarship will fund a doctoral research project that focuses on the history of Spanish art and visual culture between ca. 1600 and 1700. We will also consider research projects devoted to the reception of seventeenth-century Spanish art in later periods, up to ca. 1900.
Applicants should apply via the University of St Andrews application process: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/pg/apply/research/
The deadline for applications is Monday 25 May 2020.
For informal queries, intending applicants may contact Dr José Ramón Marcaida (jrm32@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Post-doc: Cultural and religious history of Muslims and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula and/or the Maghreb (9th to 16th centuries) (Barcelona)
Professor Linda G. Jones, established at the Humanities Department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), is interested in receiving Expressions of Interest of potential candidates for the Marie Sklodowska – Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA – IF) 2019 call.
Professor Jones has an interdisciplinary background in Religious Studies and Comparative Religions; Islamic Studies; Medieval History, and Religion and Gender studies. She applies these interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the religious and cultural history of medieval Iberia and the Maghreb; (trans)cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians in these regions and the broader Mediterranean; and the study of Islamic masculinities and comparative gender studies in the pre-modern period. She has published her research findings in numerous internationally renowned publishing houses and journals. She is also the PI of the research project, “Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies in Religious, (Trans)cultural, and Gendered Identities in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and the Mediterranean.”
Professor Jones would like to sponsor two post-doctoral researchers on any topic related to any one of her current and future lines of investigation focused on the pre-modern Iberian Peninsula and/or the Maghreb, which include the following: expressions of masculine identity and the relationality of gender in medieval Islamic texts; the relation between gender and religious identity and alterity; Mudejar religiosity, religious identity, and relations with Christians, Jews, and other Muslims; and the relationship between medieval Islamic preaching and culture, and the poetics of medieval Islamic oratory.
Benefits
The annual budget includes funding for salary, research costs and a contribution to the overhead costs of the host organisation. Salary is not negotiable and based on H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie rates. Fellows will have their offices at the UPF main campus (Ciutadella). The campus offers libraries and IT services, language training and cultural/sports services. From their office, fellows will have remote access to the UPF libraries, to inter-library lending, IT Services and to an extensive range of electronic resources including journals.
Eligibility criteria according to the call:
At the deadline for the submission of proposals researchers:
- shall be in possession of a doctoral degree or 4 years of full-time equivalent experience;
- must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the above mentioned deadline.
Selection process
Proposals will be pre-selected on the basis of internal evaluation. Candidates will be informed of the results of the pre-selection a week after the deadline.
Researchers willing to apply should check that they fulfil the elegibility criteria and then send an expression of interest, consisting of:
- A Curriculum Vitae (cv europass);
- A summary presentation of their research proposal (max. 3 pages long);
- A motivation letter (1 page);
- The contact information of two referees.
Specific Requirements
At the deadline for the submission of proposals researchers:
- shall be in possession of a doctoral degree or 4 years of full-time equivalent experience;
- must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the above mentioned deadline.
Further information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/389511
SPANISH COLONIAL ART FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
ABOUT THE MARILYNN THOMA FELLOWSHIP IN SPANISH COLONIAL ART
The Marilynn Thoma Fellowship is the only unrestricted research funding in the United States devoted exclusively to the field of Spanish Colonial art. Each year from May 1 to October 15, pre- and post-doctoral scholars from across the world are invited to apply for research support in the amounts of $45,000 and $60,000, respectively. Recipients are selected by an international jury of three undisclosed experts in the field and notified in mid-December, with travel commencing within 18 months following notification. Selected scholars design their research projects independently, using funding in any reasonable way to accomplish their goals.
Fellowships range in duration from one to two years, and eventuate in major measurable outcomes, including museum exhibitions, dissertations, book publications, scholarly essays, and lecture series. While proposals are accepted from all of Spanish colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, the Foundation gives strong preference to projects that contribute to the history of painting and sculpture in colonial South America.
The PDF at left provides further information about the Fellowship.
To apply, please complete the application via Slideroom.
ABOUT THE THOMA FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS IN SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Congruent with the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship, applications for the Thoma Foundation Research and Travel Awards in Spanish Colonial art are open from May 1 to October 15 of every year. Awards of up to $15,000 are available to scholars, curators and advanced graduate students completing an MA or PhD dissertation to help defray the costs of research-related expenses. Funding is provided each year to several scholars selected by an international jury of undisclosed experts in the field, with travel commencing within one year + one month from the date of notification. The Awards support research projects ranging in duration from 1 week to 3 months.
The PDF at left provides further information about the Awards.
To apply, please complete the application via Slideroom.
Please contact info@thomafoundation.org if you have questions.
Dr. Elka Klein Memorial Travel Grant
A cash grant of $1500 will be awarded in memory of Dr. Elka Klein to a doctoral candidate preparing to spend a month or more abroad conducting historical research towards his/her dissertation.
The grant recipient will be selected by a panel of scholars based on the relevance and potential contribution of the proposed work to the fields and concerns important to Dr. Klein, such as Sephardic culture, medieval history, gender studies, and Jewish studies.
Applicants for the grant are asked to submit the following information by e-‐mail to the address below:
- A c.v.
- A copy of the applicant’s dissertation proposal
- A description of the specific research to be undertaken abroad
- A working budget, including what other funds have already been secured
- A letter of recommendation from the applicant’s dissertation supervisor, addressing the applicant’s qualifications and the significance of the research s/he will be undertaking. Letters of recommendation should be printed on official stationary and scanned.
Deadline: April 7, 2017
To submit an application, or for more information, please contact Dr. Gail Labovitz,
glabovitz@aju.edu
The selected applicant will be expected to acknowledge the grant in the dissertation and in any subsequent publications that result from the research subsidized by the grant. We thank the Association for Jewish Studies for their help in fund-‐raising and administration to make this grant possible.
Dr. Elka Klein (1965-‐2005) was passionate about her vocation as a historian and a teacher. Her untimely death in the spring of 2005 was a great loss to all who knew her, whether personally or professionally. In her memory, her friends and academic colleagues in the fields of History and Jewish Studies have created this memorial to honor her dedication to and her achievements in her academic life.
Works by Dr. Elka Klein:
Jews, Christian Society and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
Hebrew Deeds of Catalan Jews 1117-‐1316 (Barcelona, Girona: Societat Catalana d’Estudis Hebraics, 2004)
“Splitting heirs: patterns of inheritance among Barcelona’s Jews,” Jewish History 16,1 (2002), 49-‐71
“The widow’s portion: law, custom and marital property among medieval Catalan Jews,”
Viator 31 (2000), 147-‐163
“Protecting the widow and the orphan: a case study from 13th century Barcelona,”
Mosaic 14 (1993), 65-‐81
If you would like to contribute to the Dr. Elka Klein Memorial Travel Grant, so that we can continue to offer grants in future years, please send your donation to:
The Association for Jewish Studies Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011-‐6301
Checks should be made out to the Association for Jewish Studies, with the words “Elka Klein memorial” in the memo line (if you do not put this somewhere on the check, it will not go to the right account!)
JCB|GRISO JOINT FELLOWSHIP
The Marvelous Element in the New World, 1492-1800
Starting in the 2014-2015 academic year, the John Carter Brown Library (JCB) and the Grupo de Investigación de Siglo de Oro (GRISO) will co-sponsor two residential research fellowships a year at the JCB on the theme of the marvelous in the New World. The fellowships will each be for two months, and at theconclusion of the program in 2017, the two institutions will co-host an international
conference on the same theme in Providence, Rhode Island.
One of the most interesting aspects of the encounter between Europe and the New World was the perception of marvelous things, facts and living creatures in the New World. This started with Columbus himself, who in his first voyage thought he had a glimpse of the sirens and even suspected he could be near Paradise. Lacking anyreferences from biblical or classical sources about the newly discovered lands, Europeans projected old Greco-Roman and local myths and legends into their perceptions of both the human and the physical environment. Frequently they let their imagination reign free by “seeing” things and creatures they wished to find, whethercities made out of gold, lands populated by giants and amazons, or lost continents.
The purpose of this project is to assemble a group of scholars who will advance our knowledge of the topic by analyzing literary, historical, cartographic and artistic production about the early Americas.
Funding for one of the fellowships each year will come from the JCB’s Jose Amor y Vázquez Fellowship Fund.
Awardees will be expected to produce a scholarly article related to their research at the JCB within one year of the conclusion of their fellowship. They will also be invited to particpate in the 2017 conference at the JCB. The stipend for 2014-2015 will be $2100/month. The deadline is December 15, 2013.
For more information and applications for 2014-2015:
http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/fellowships/jcb-griso-fellowship.
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