Call for Applications! Post-Doctoral Fellows| Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of Goethe University Frankfurt

The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of Goethe University Frankfurt, is seeking to appoint up to three post-doctoral fellows in the humanities or social sciences for the academic year 2023/2024. Please find  the Call for Applications below.

Closing date is January 31^st 2023

Iris Helene Koban

(Managing director, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften)

i.koban@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de

CFA: Request for Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies

Deadline: December 1, 2019 

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin, one of Germany’s leading research universities. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on German and European history since the mid-18th century.

Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are PhDs who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. For details on eligibility etc., check our website.

Fellowships are awarded for a period between ten to twelve months and must be held for a single continuous period. Approximately fourteen fellows are selected. The number of reapplications for each fellowship category is limited to two.

Located in one of the densest and most innovative academic regions in Europe, a Berlin Program Fellowship offers extraordinary research opportunities. Each semester, our research colloquium run by distinguished scholars, serves as the central meeting point to share, discuss and support each other’s work.

The Berlin Program is administered in close cooperation with our North American partner, the German Studies Association (GSA), the largest organization of scholars, professionals, and students who focus on the study of German-speaking Europe from all periods of history and all relevant disciplines.


Deadline: December 1, 2019.
Competition opening: November 1, 2019.

For further information on our profile and the application, visit our website or send an email to bprogram[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de

CFA: The Berlin Prize 2020/2021 (fellowship)

Deadline to Apply: September 23, 2019 (6 p.m. EST)

• Please apply online here

The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the academic year 2020/21.

The Academy seeks to enrich transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest scholarly merit. Past recipients include anthropologists, art historians, literary scholars, philosophers, historians, musicologists, journalists, writers of fiction and nonfiction, filmmakers, sociologists, legal scholars, economists, and public policy experts.

Approximately twenty Berlin Prizes are conferred annually. Fellowships are typically awarded for an academic semester, but shorter stays of six to eight weeks are also possible. Benefits include round-trip airfare, partial board, a $5,000 monthly stipend, and accommodations at the Academy’s lakeside Hans Arnhold Center, in the Wannsee district of Berlin.

For 2020/21, the Academy will also award three specially designated fellowships: two Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities, for work that demonstrates an interest in the topics of migration and social integration, race in comparative perspective, or exile and return. In addition, in memory of its founder, the Academy will name a Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow for a project that looks at diplomatic approaches to resolving major global issues, from armed conflicts to environmental challenges to the impact of new technologies.

For all projects, the Academy asks that candidates explain the relevance of a stay in Berlin to the development of their work. Proposals are by no means required to focus on German topics, but the Academy is interested in projects that will resonate with Berlin audiences.

Fellowships are restricted to US citizens and permanent residents. Candidates in academic disciplines must have completed a PhD at the time of application. Candidates working in other fields—journalism, film, law, or public policy—must have equivalent professional experience. Writers should have published at least one book with an established press at the time of application.

Please note that Berlin Prizes for visual artists, composers, and poets are determined in invitation-only competitions.

Following a peer-reviewed evaluation process, an independent Selection Committee reviews finalist applications. The 2020/21 Berlin Prizes will be announced in late April 2020.

The application deadline for 2020/21 is Monday, September 23, 2019 (6 pm EST).

To apply online, please visit: americanacademy.de/apply/apply-for-a-fellowship/

For inquiries, please contact Fellows Selection: cs@americanacademy.de; phone +49-30-804-83-0.

CFP: Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW/Foundation on German-American Academic Relations)

Deadline to Apply: August 30, 2019

The Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW/Foundation on German-American Academic Relations) is soliciting proposals for research projects related to transatlantic relations and/or to issues of concern on both sides of the Atlantic. The Foundation seeks to foster closer ties between scholars in Germany and North America and believes that such collaboration will be productive for scholarship and for building on the historical pillars of strong transatlantic relations. 

This call for proposals is aimed at scholars working in the disciplines of the Social Sciences (in particular Political Science or International Relations and Sociology), Law and History, but other related fields are welcome as well, as are interdisciplinary proposals. We invite scholars from North America and Germany to propose collaborative projects to be carried out by junior scholars or a combination of junior and senior scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. 

The Foundations is not prioritizing any research themes in particular. Yet in general terms topics which are of relevance to transatlantic relations substantively or to a transatlantic research agenda in scholarly fields would normally be given preference. Both more theoretical and policy relevant proposals will be considered.  

Funding will be considered for a variety of formats. We only list a few illustrative ones here: (a) initiating or implementing more fully developed collaborative research; (b) organizing workshops or conferences in order to prepare articles for submission to journals or an edited volume; (c) funding book incubators to help early-career scholars with their first books by bringing in experts from both Germany and North America to provide detailed feedback on a manuscript draft. Other innovative formats will also be considered as long as they foster German-American collaborations and involve young scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Preference will also be given to innovative project ideas with smaller budgets since SDAW funding is normally considered to be seed money. 

Applications to other foundations along similar research lines is not only possible, but encouraged. Please specify any such plans in your proposals. 

Proposals should include a standardized title page (see following page), a detailed description of the project idea (up to three, single-spaced pages) as well as short CVs of scholars included in the proposal (up to two pages per person). Proposals should be submitted by e-mail as one pdf document. Incomplete proposals cannot be considered.  

The closing date for the receipt of proposals is August 30, 2019. Decisions on proposals will be made in the fall of 2019. 

SDAW - im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Barkhovenallee 1, D-45239 Essen 

E-mail: sdaw@stifterverband.de

Phone: +49 (0) 2 01 84 01-193 / –150

Fax +49 (0) 2 01 84 01-255

http://www.sdaw.net/english.html

CFA: Leibniz Summer Fellowships “German and European History in the 20th century

Deadline: November 30, 2018

Leibniz Summer Fellowships “German and European History in the 20th century” for the academic year 2019 to study German and European History in the 20th century.

These two-month fellowships provide an opportunity to pursue individual research in Germany while participating in the academic life of one of Germany’s major historical research centres. Founded in 1992, the ZZF covers a broad scope of Contemporary European History with currently four research departments “Communism and Society”, “Economic Thought and Practice”, “Regimes of the Social Sphere” and “Contemporary History in the Age of Media and Information”.

The ZZF library holds approx. 80,000 items and subscribes to more than 100 periodicals. Since 2009, the ZZF has been a member of the Leibniz-Association.

Applicants must have at least postdoctoral status with an outstanding academic record. They are expected to pursue their own research. However applicants whose interests relate to the research departments of the ZZF will be preferred. Fellowship holders will be assigned to a research department and asked to present their current project in a seminar or colloquium.

The Leibniz Summer Fellowships carry a monthly grant of about 3,000 €. The funding is supposed to cover all expenses including travel, housing, and insurance. Fellows are expected to reside in Berlin or Potsdam for two consecutive months between April and October 2019. The ZZF will provide office space and other relevant facilities.

The application deadline is November 30, 2018. Decisions will be announced not later than December 31, 2018. Applications can be in English or German and must include

• a letter of interest;
• a curriculum vitae;
• a list of publications;
• a project proposal not exceeding 1,500 words.
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Please address your application to:

Dr. Hanno Hochmuth

- Leibniz Summer Fellowship -

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung

Am Neuen Markt 1

14467 Potsdam

Germany

E-Mail: fellowships@zzf-pdm.de

Applications should be sent via e-mail with one combined pdf-attachment only. A letter of recommendation is not required. For information regarding the ZZF, please refer to www.zzfpotsdam.de.

For applications and further questions about the fellowship program please contact Dr. Hanno Hochmuth: fellowships@zzf-pdm.de.

CFP: Foundation German-American Academic Relations (SDAW)

Deadline: April 1, 2018

The “Stiftung Deutsch Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen” (SDAW/Foundation German-American Academic Relations) has just issued its “Call for Proposals 2018”. This year, SDAW is soliciting proposals for a “brainstorming conference” on the future of academic collaboration on transatlantic relations. The conference will take place March 2019 in Toronto.

Please find our detailed CfP enclosed and/or online at

https://www.deutsches-stiftungszentrum.de/download/file/fid/1635