Fellowships & Scholarships
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts support the use of any of the UCLA Library Special Collections’ extensive holdings in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books. Some of these holdings include the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine and Early Italian Printing Collections; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Bourbon del Monte de San Faustino Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts.
The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who need to use these collections for graduate-level or postdoctoral independent research. Recipients receive a stipend of $3000/month for fellowships lasting up to three months. Please note that housing and office space is not provided.
Application due date: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Please apply at least six months in advance of the preferred date of research in UCLA Library Special Collections.
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MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships
A limited number of stipends are available for graduate students and particularly promising undergraduate students participating in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies. The stipend will be paid directly to the student and must be used to offset a portion of the tuition cost. The awards are contingent on acceptance into the program. Applicants must be members of the Medieval Academy in good standing with at least one year of graduate school remaining and must demonstrate both the importance of the summer course to their program of study and their home institution’s inability to offer analogous coursework.
Click here to apply. The required letter of recommendation should be sent by email as a signed PDF on letterhead to the Executive Director at LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org. The letter of recommendation must be submitted by April 1. Letters may also be sent as hardcopy to:
MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships
Medieval Academy of America
6 Beacon St., Suite 500
Boston, MA 02108
Applications must be received by 1 April and will be judged by the CARA Committee. There will be between four and eight awards yearly, depending upon the number of worthy applicants and the cost of the summer programs. Due to limited resources, CARA Summer Scholarship awards normally will not exceed US$1000.
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1-2 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1352) are available in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the University of Oslo.
The positions are associated with the European Research Council-funded Consolidator project ECOART – An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization, which will consist of a team of Principal Investigator Anna Grasskamp, three doctoral research fellows and two post-doctoral research fellows. The project investigates the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia, a space dominated by European and Chinese economic spheres of influence, in an era of early modern globalization from 1500 to 1800. Funding for fieldwork, archival research, conference attendance and publications will be available to all members of the project.
(1) Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Geographic Resources
Access to waterways allowed local craft communities to engage with resources from far away, while panoramic views inspired visual artists. Artists and artisans across Eurasia have articulated the agency of certain sites over humans, for example in the case of sacred sites where natural miracles were believed to have taken place, while contributing to period conceptualizations and visualizations of land- and seascapes as objects of knowledge. The person filling in this position will investigate the artistic impact on and representation of geographic resources during the early modern period in at least three of the project’s six key sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. His/her methodology will be informed by geoaesthetics, a critical frame to analyze artistic and artisanal practices as shaped by human interaction with resources. Potential case studies include representations of bodies of water, for example Hangzhou’s West Lake or Gujarat’s Bay of Surat; landscape paintings by traveling artists like William Hodges, who accompanied James Cook’s journeys, or those by Ming literati artists who traveled extensively in search of painterly landscapes; geoaesthetics of sacredness in relation to Buddhist sites and Catholic belief systems across Eurasia.
(2) Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Climatic Resources
While climatic resources such as the interplay between hot temperatures and humidity allow for the cultivation of and creative engagement with certain materials, for example enabling sericulture to produce silk, they discourage others. Furthermore, artistic concepts of climatic resources have been articulated through symbolic depictions of the forces of wind, water, and sunlight during the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850) due to cooling and mountain glacier expansion in some (though not all) regions of the world. Asia’s monsoon climate has a profound impact on the region and its life-threatening powers have been depicted in representations of flooding and shipwrecks and in allegorical and symbolic ways. The work of this post-doctoral fellowship project asks how the forces of wind and water during the wet season were conceptualized in art and artisanship across Eurasia; it will study the representation of the harnessing of climatic elements for human purposes across at least three of the project’s six sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. Potential case studies include symbolic representations of the forces of water in paintings and sculptures of dragons across Eurasia; anthropomorphic representations of wind in Indian and Chinese Buddhist imagery of aerial deities; artistic depictions of the impact of the monsoon season on seafaring.
The positions are available for a period of 3.5 years. These are full-time research positions with no additional teaching duties.
The successful candidate(s) is/are expected to become part of the research environment/network of the department and contribute to its development. The main purpose of postdoctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.
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Postdocs
University of Bergen
Open to PhD grads interested in projects on medieval religious literature. Successful candidates will work under the supervision of Dr Laura Saetveit Miles. Must be a scholar 0-8 years out from PhD working on medieval women, monastic cultures (esp. Syon Abbey), Middle English religious literature, or visionary or mystical texts. 2-3 year fellowship based at UiB with Dr. Laura Saetveit Miles. EU-funded MSCA Fellowships are an excellent (though competitive) opportunity for a well-funded post-doc project. Please contact laura.miles@uib.no to discuss the fellowship call, work to develop a proposal and be ready for the September deadline.
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Geographic Resources at the University of Oslo
Access to waterways allowed local craft communities to engage with resources from far away, while panoramic views inspired visual artists. Artists and artisans across Eurasia have articulated the agency of certain sites over humans, for example in the case of sacred sites where natural miracles were believed to have taken place, while contributing to period conceptualizations and visualizations of land- and seascapes as objects of knowledge. The person filling in this position will investigate the artistic impact on and representation of geographic resources during the early modern period in at least three of the project’s six key sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. His/her methodology will be informed by geoaesthetics, a critical frame to analyze artistic and artisanal practices as shaped by human interaction with resources. Potential case studies include representations of bodies of water, for example Hangzhou’s West Lake or Gujarat’s Bay of Surat; landscape paintings by traveling artists like William Hodges, who accompanied James Cook’s journeys, or those by Ming literati artists who traveled extensively in search of painterly landscapes; geoaesthetics of sacredness in relation to Buddhist sites and Catholic belief systems across Eurasia.
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Climatic Resources at the University of Oslo
While climatic resources such as the interplay between hot temperatures and humidity allow for the cultivation of and creative engagement with certain materials, for example enabling sericulture to produce silk, they discourage others. Furthermore, artistic concepts of climatic resources have been articulated through symbolic depictions of the forces of wind, water, and sunlight during the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850) due to cooling and mountain glacier expansion in some (though not all) regions of the world. Asia’s monsoon climate has a profound impact on the region and its life-threatening powers have been depicted in representations of flooding and shipwrecks and in allegorical and symbolic ways. The work of this post-doctoral fellowship project asks how the forces of wind and water during the wet season were conceptualized in art and artisanship across Eurasia; it will study the representation of the harnessing of climatic elements for human purposes across at least three of the project’s six sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. Potential case studies include symbolic representations of the forces of water in paintings and sculptures of dragons across Eurasia; anthropomorphic representations of wind in Indian and Chinese Buddhist imagery of aerial deities; artistic depictions of the impact of the monsoon season on seafaring.
The positions are available for a period of 3.5 years. These are full-time research positions with no additional teaching duties.
The successful candidate(s) is/are expected to become part of the research environment/network of the department and contribute to its development. The main purpose of postdoctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.
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Professorships
Temporary, full-time position of Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, from 2025–29, replacing a permanent member of staff on research leave.
Applicants must document research expertise in the art, visual and material cultures of Asia during the age of globalization, c. 1500 to the present. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the field in research and teaching within ecological and postcolonial art history. The position is open to a broad range of geographical, chronological and material foci, but emphasis will be placed on the applicants' abilities to relate their expertise to the Art history section's ongoing research and teaching activities.
For information about the BA program, see: https://www.uio.no/studier/program/kunsthistorie/index.html (Norwegian only).
For information on the MA program, see: https://www.uio.no/studier/program/kunsthistorie-master/index.html (Norwegian only).
For information about our research groups, see: https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/groups/international-and-nordic-modernism/index.html and https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/groups/visual- studies/index.html
The full-time position is divided into 47% of the work being dedicated to teaching, 47% to research and 6% to administrative work.
The successful candidate is expected to initiate and lead research, supervise students at BA, MA, and PhD level, participate in teaching and in exam setting and assessment at all levels, and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the department.
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Assistant Professor of English, Early Modern British Literature - 128970 at the University of West Florida
The Department of English with the University of West Florida, located in Pensacola, FL, is invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor (position #128970) with a specialization in Early Modern Literature. The successful candidate will teach courses in General Education, in upper-division English, and in the Graduate program; pursue a research agenda appropriate for a high-performing regional comprehensive university; provide service to the department and the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; and hold a terminal degree from an accredited university. The successful candidate will teach three courses per semester. The Department of English at the University of West Florida is a highly productive department of active scholar and creative teachers.
Preferred Qualifications: Doctoral degree in English with a strong commitment to teaching, scholarship, and service. We are especially interested in applicants with a demonstrated history of teaching and researching Shakespeare and who can develop courses in secondary areas such as critical theory and the intersections of social forces such as economics, class, and identity in Early Modern literature. Higher Ed Job Posting.
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - English in Global Early Modern Literature at the College of Arts & Sciences (Adelphi University)
The Department of English at Adelphi University seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Global Early Modern Literature who studies Anglophone literatures within a global context. The appointment begins August 2024. Higher Ed Job Posting.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- The teaching load is 18-credits (3/3) with opportunities for research support.
- The successful candidate will teach lower-level surveys and upper-level seminars in their specialized field, including Shakespeare.
- Our new colleague will have opportunities to collaborate with Adelphi faculty in the development of such interdisciplinary studies programs as Asian Studies; African, Black and Caribbean Studies; Latin American and Latinx Studies; and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
- Our department additionally welcomes candidates whose research and teaching interests span various fields or theoretical concerns, and who can develop new courses within our "Critical Perspectives" category of upper-division electives. (See course listings at https://english.adelphi.edu/ba-in-english/).
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Cairo
The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations invites applications from a historian of art and architecture with a primary focus on the study of the Islamic world before 1800 for an open-rank appointment that will begin in the fall of 2024. This is a fixed-term position for four years, renewable upon successful review. Candidates with research agendas that include the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, and/or Iberia are especially encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in all areas of Islamic art and architecture. The teaching load is three courses (nine credit hours) per semester. Courses are to be taught in English. The successful candidate is expected to pursue a robust research agenda; to demonstrate a commitment to teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; to supervise M.A. theses; and to engage meaningfully at the department, school, university, and community levels. The department particularly seeks applicants whose research interests demonstrate facility with primary textual sources and reflect the department's interdisciplinarity, who engage with local material culture and built heritage in their scholarship, and who are receptive to adapting instruction to emerging curricular needs. Higher Ed Job Posting.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
The Connecticut College Department of Art History and Architectural Studies seeks a creative scholar of Global Early Modern Art/Architecture/Visual Culture (ca. 1400-1750) to serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor for one year (2024-25). PhD (by the time of appointment) in Art History or other related areas with an emphasis on art and architectural history or visual culture is preferred; ABD candidates may be considered at the rank of Instructor. Thematic focus, methodological approach and geographic area of specialization are open, but preference will be given to candidates whose primary expertise and research agenda lie in the Americas and Europe. The department has a particular interest in scholars with a trans-national, cross-cultural and global focus. Applicants should complement the expertise of current department faculty. Higher Ed Job Posting.
Assistant Professor at Radford University
Radford University announces a faculty position in the English Department for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English specializing in Shakespeare and Early Modern British literature. We seek a student-focused teacher to join our English Department, and be ready to help our English Education Students prepare for licensure. The preferred candidate would have formal experience mentoring graduate-student writing teachers in first-year writing and would serve as a Faculty Mentor in our Graduate Teaching Fellows Mentoring Program. Teaching load at Radford University is normally 4 courses per semester but faculty can teach 3 if mentoring or fulfilling other responsibilities. We are especially interested in candidates who through their teaching, or service, promote diversity and inclusion at Radford University. Higher Ed Job Posting.
Tenure-Track: Assistant Professors in Early Modern Studies or Early Modern English Drama (Shakespeare)
The Department of English in the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University invites applicants for two full-time, 9-month, tenure-track assistant professor positions in early modern studies. The Department of English has historically deep roots in early modern studies. We served as host of the World Shakespeare Bibliography for more than three decades; and since the 1990s, we continue to enjoy our membership in the Folger Institute. Based upon this strong commitment to early modern studies and digital humanities, the Modern Language Association awarded us a generous grant in 2019 to transform the New Variorum Shakespeare into dynamic, openly accessible digital editions.
The expected duties for these positions include maintaining an active publication agenda; developing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses; undertaking appropriate academic service on departmental, college, and university committees; mentoring students from all cultural backgrounds; and engaging in professional service at the appropriate level. The normal teaching load is 2/2.
We seek a scholar with a PhD in English or an aligned field and a clear record of teaching, research, and service to join us in shaping the next phase of early modern studies at Texas A&M. We are especially interested in attracting scholars exploring and expanding the boundaries of early modern studies through, for example, considerations of transatlantic issues or critical-textual studies. This full-time, tenure-track position will be hired at an assistant level. The anticipated start date is 1 August 2024. Higher Ed Job Posting.
Assistant Professor for Cluster Hire in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of California, San Diego
The Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for three tenure-track Assistant Professor appointments in Global Anglophone Literatures to begin Fall 2024. The Literature Department seeks to hire three specialists across the fields of medieval/early modern studies, the long eighteenth century, and the long nineteenth century. This cluster hire aims to attract applicants with a research focus on race and empire who employ multilingual/comparative approaches that situate Anglophone literatures in a global frame. Expertise in additional fields of study or transhistorical theoretical approaches (such as critical race studies, disability studies, ecocriticism, gender studies, Marxism, queer or trans studies, among others) would be viewed favorably.
The cluster hire intends to attract a group of scholars and teachers whose projects anticipate a new vision of language, literary, and cultural studies in higher education for the 21st century. We seek candidates who are able to teach the history and development of British literature but who are also eager to reimagine an innovative curriculum that presents Anglophone literature in a global frame. New hires will work closely with one another as a team, as well as with the department, in crafting new approaches to Global Anglophone Literatures. Higher Ed Job Posting.
Position #1: Medieval and/or Early Modern Anglophone Literature
The successful candidate will conduct research that engages deeply with the literary traditions of either late medieval or early modern English and with at least one non-Anglophone literary/linguistic tradition from the pre- or early modern world. The candidate will teach courses and advise graduate students in Anglophone literature and culture pre-1660 and will have the opportunity to teach and advise students beyond this area as well.
Position #2: Long-Eighteenth-Century Anglophone Literature
The successful candidate will conduct research that engages "eighteenth-century British literature" creatively and capaciously and that pushes the boundaries of traditional eighteenth-century British and Anglophone literary studies. The candidate will teach courses and advise graduate students in eighteenth-century British literature and culture and will have the opportunity to teach and advise students beyond this area as well.
Position #3: Long-Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature
The successful candidate will conduct research that historicizes the geographies of the "global anglophone" from the perspective of nineteenth-century studies and that pushes the boundaries of traditional nineteenth-century British and Anglophone literary studies. The candidate will teach courses and advise graduate students in nineteenth-century British literature and culture and will have the opportunity to teach and advise students beyond this area as well.
Assistant Professor of History-Tenure Track at the University of Central Missouri
The University of Central Missouri History Department seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member with expertise in the history of the early modern Atlantic World and with preferred expertise in the digital humanities and public history. Additional desired subfields include women's and gender history, African history, Latin American history, Indigenous history, and/or early United States history. Higher Ed job posting.
Assistant Professor at Troy University
Troy University invites applications for a full time, 10-month renewable contract, tenure track position as Assistant Professor in History. The position is responsible for teaching introductory courses in World History and upper division (and potentially graduate) courses on topics relevant to the incumbent's research interests. The department seeks an instructor who specializes in History of early modern to modern Britain and/or France, ideally with some degree of specialization in the history of the Middle East and/or history of Africa. The teaching load will be four courses per semester. These will be taught in class and potentially online. This position is expected to begin in August 2023. Higher Ed job posting.