Fellowships | University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 2014 University of Sydney Research Fellowship Scheme is now open.
The University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships were established in 1996 to support excellence in full-time research undertaken in the University. The Fellowships are extremely prestigious and highly competitive internationally in line with equivalent externally funded fellowships. They are intended to support early career researchers. Applicants must have an outstanding track record relative to opportunity in order to be short-listed. Successful applicants are expected to be based full-time at the University for the duration of the Fellowship, which is for a maximum period of three years.
There is an Expression of Interest process for intending applicants within the humanities and social sciences with a deadline of Friday 3 May (the EoI form is available on the above webpage). For those applicants who progress beyond the EoI stage, the closing date for full applications is Friday 31 May.
This year we would like to make a special effort to recruit exceptional applicants in Art History, among other fields. As a guide, most applicants who progress to the stage of submitting a full application are onto their second book project and/or have a series of articles around a specific research area. This is often an applicant’s second postdoc, although that is not expected. All applicants must have received their PhD between 1 Jan 2008 and 31 Dec 2012.
Kind regards,
Jennifer
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JENNIFER MILAM | Professor of Art History
Pro Dean Research | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowships at BGC
Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowships, 2013-14
The Bard Graduate Center, New York
Applications due by 15 May 2013
The Bard Graduate Center invites applications for up to four non-stipendiary research fellowships lasting from 3 to 9 months. Since its founding in 1993, the Bard Graduate Center has aimed to become the leading institute for study of the cultural history of the material world through its MA and PhD programs, scholarly exhibitions, and publications, seminars, and symposia. Its activities draw on methodologies and approaches from art, architecture and design history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. Fellowships are for researchers working in these and allied areas. We provide office space, and rental accommodation may be available at Bard Hall. Visiting scholars are expected to participate in the public intellectual life of the BGC, and to give one more talks on their current work The Research Fellow may take up residence at any point after 15 August 2013.
Applications should include a statement of interest, curriculum vitae, sample publication (SASE), and a list of three references, and should be sent by 15 May 2013 to Dean Elena Pinto Simon/Visiting Scholar Search Committee, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 38 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024. No electronic applications. The BGC is an AA/EOE employer.
Fellowships | Seeing Things: Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
From CRASSH at Cambridge:
Fellowships | Seeing Things: Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
Six-month or 12-month Fellowships to be held from January 2014 to September 2015
Applications due by 16 May 2013
The Centre for Research in Arts, Social Societies and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge and the Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) at the University of Southern California / Huntington Library invite applications for Visiting Fellowships in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture, to be held between January 2014 and September 2015. These fellowships are part of the collaborative programme Seeing Things: Early Modern Visual and Material Culture CRASSH / EMSI will appoint up to four fellows over the period (two fellows for twelve months each or 4 fellows for six months each). Fellows will spend half of their fellowship at CRASSH and half at the Huntington Library, San Marino.
During their residencies in each institution, fellows will be expected to conduct research on a topic in early modern (1400-1800) visual and material culture and to participate in the life of CRASSH / EMSI. There are no geographical restrictions on research topics, but proposals related to the special collections and museum holdings of Cambridge and the Huntington will be particularly welcome. In addition to carrying out independent research, fellows will be expected to deliver at each institution a master class for early career researchers and graduate students, on a topic of their choice.
Eligibility
The fellowships are open to postdoctoral scholars at any career stage.
Provision
The Fellowships are non-stipendiary. Successful candidates will be provided with a contribution to their accommodation costs for up to six months in each location (local rates will apply) and return travel from their home institution to both destinations, workspace, and access to libraries and special collections.
Details are available here»
Fellowships | The Drawing Institute at The Morgan Library
Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The Drawing Institute, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2013-14
Applications due by 15 February 2013
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Drawing Institute for the 2013-2014 term. Fellowships support independent research projects on subjects relating to the history, theory, collecting, function or interpretation of old master and/or modern drawings. For more information or to apply, please visit The Morgan Library’s website.
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Morgan-Menil Fellowship
The Drawing Institute, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2013-14
Applications due by 15 February 2013
The Drawing Institute invites applications for the Morgan-Menil Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic term. This fellowship, a collaboration between the Morgan Library & Museum and the Menil Collection, focuses on the history, production, use, and cultural meaning of drawing as a discipline, with an emphasis on the relationships between the old-master tradition and the practice of drawing in the modern and contemporary era. For more information, please visit The Morgan Library’s website.
East India Company Annouces Two Research Posts
The East India Company at Home project recently announced two post-doctoral researcher posts. Both are funded by the AHRC, and each lasts for three months beginning on 14 February 2013. Applications are due 1 February 2013. Click on each heading below for more information.
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East India Company at Home / Osterley Park and House Project Post
Research Associate (EICH), Ref:1305745
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher based in the Department of History at UCL to work with Osterley Park and House (a National Trust property based in Hounslow) and a UCL research team (The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 project). The post is for three months duration and will be funded by the AHRC project entitled Indian Ocean material worlds at Osterley, c. 1700 to the present.
Ideal candidates will hold (or have recently submitted) a PhD in history or a related subject and have a proven track record of high quality research on the East India Company, 18th-20th-century British or colonial history or material culture history of the 18th and/or 19th centuries as well as a demonstrable interest in public engagement.
Interview date: Wednesday 6th or Thursday 7th February 2013
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Legacies of British Slavery / East India Company at Home / British Library Project Post
Research Associate (East Meets West), Ref:1305932
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher based in the Department of History at UCL to work with the British Library and with two UCL research teams (from the East India Company at Home project and the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project). The post is for three months’ duration and will be funded by the AHRC project entitled East Meets West: Caribbean and Asian colonial cultures in British domestic contexts.
Ideal candidates will hold (or have recently submitted) a PhD in history or a related subject and have a proven track record of high quality research on the colonial history of the 18th and/or 19th centuries as well as a demonstrable interest in public engagement.
Interview date: Wednesday 6th or Thursday 7th February 2013
Fellowship | YCBA Postdoctoral Research Associateship
YCBA Postdoctoral Research Associateship
Applications due by 4 March 2013
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is offering a Postdoctoral Research Associateship (PRA) in the
Department of Paintings and Sculpture. The position is intended for a recent recipient of the PhD (degree
granted within the last three years) in a field related to British art. The PhD must be in hand by the time
the position begins. The PRA may be held for up to three years. It is expected that the post-holder will
pursue long-term professional employment during the period of hire. The PRA will receive an annual salary
of $45,000, plus standard Yale benefits. Funding to allow the PRA to attend one professional conference
annually, and modest travel funds for undertaking work on behalf of the department as well as for personal
research, as determined by the departmental head, will also be provided.
The PRA will report directly to the Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture and the Curator of Paintings and
Sculpture. Primary duties will consist of research associated with the collection of paintings and sculpture
and the exhibition program of the Center, including contributing to the ongoing scholarly cataloguing of the
collection, assisting with major international loan exhibitions overseen by the Department, assisting with
the reinstallation of the permanent collection of paintings and sculpture scheduled for 2015, and supporting
the research activities of the Senior Curator and the Curator. The PRA will be given one day a week to pursue
research in his/her own areas of specialization, and is expected to give talks at scholarly conferences, publish,
and engage with the wider art-historical community. Applicants should consult the job description for full
details of the requirements of the position.
The deadline for receipt of applications is March 4, 2013. Interviews are expected to take place the following
month. Applications should be made online at britishart.yale.edu/about-us/opportunities. Applicants should
refer to the job description on the website, then complete the application form and upload a cover letter, CV,
and a writing sample. Three letters of recommendation should be forwarded directly by referees to
ycba.research@yale.edu. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to Lisa Ford, Associate Head of
Research, at lisa.ford@yale.edu, tel +1 203 432 9805
Scholars in Residence this Spring at the YCBA
From The Yale Center for British Art:
Visiting Scholars
The Yale Center for British Art offers short-term residential awards to scholars undertaking research related to British art. The awards are intended to enable scholars working in any discipline, including history, the history of art, literature, and other fields related to British visual and material culture, to study the Center’s collections of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts, as well as primary and secondary reference materials. The Visiting Scholars for Spring 2013 are as follows:
January 7 – February 1
William L. Coleman, PhD candidate, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley. To conduct research for a dissertation entitled “Constable, Cole, and the Country House: The Domesticated Landscape in Anglo-American Art, 1800-1850.” Coleman’s dissertation project studies the way in which the art of house portraiture participated actively in dialogues about aesthetics, wilderness, leisure, and class in Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century. The Center’s rich collection of country house portraits, including one of Constable’s earliest house portraits, Trentham Park (ca. 1801), will be examined.
January 7 – March 1
Matthew C. Hunter, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University. To conduct research for a project entitled “Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Nice Chymistry.’” Drawing upon collections and archival materials uniquely available at the Center, Coleman’s project uses Reynolds’s complex engagement with painting’s “nice chymistry” to reconsider this crucial figure in British art and the longer legacies of his practice.
January 14 – March 8
Chi-ming Yang, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania. To pursue research for a book project entitled Global Chinoiserie and the Lives of Objects, 1660-1800. This project examines how Asian decorative art shaped English discourses of racial difference in eighteenth-century literary and visual culture.
February 3 – March 1
Ada Sharpe, PhD candidate, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University. To conduct research for a dissertation entitled “Rapture at Work: Romanticism and the Discourses of Female Accomplishment.” Materials to be consulted from the Center’s Rare Books and Manuscripts collection include a number of handbooks (some explicitly aimed at female readers) that provide instruction on the decorative arts, as well as commonplace books compiled by women living in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
February 3 – May 24
Joerg Trempler, Privatdozent, Member of the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment, Humboldt University, Berlin. To conduct research for a project entitled “On Representations of Elemental Violence or the Invention of the Image of Catastrophe.” A range of materials from the Center’s collections which focus on the subject of catastrophes will be explored, including images and accounts of the Great Fire of London of 1666.
March 3 – March 29
Sean Willcock, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art, University of York. To conduct research for his PhD thesis, “Consolidating the Colonies: Art and Unrest in the British Empire, c.1850-1900.” Taking the form of a series of case studies predominately relating to colonial India, Willcock’s project considers moments of turbulence or crisis in which the British invoked graphic and photographic practices with a degree of ideological urgency and with an eye to their military or diplomatic utility. Among the materials to be consulted at the Center are William Simpson’s sketchbooks (of which over 200 are in the YCBA) and Sir Charles D’Oyly’s watercolors.
April 3 – April 27
Stephen Bann, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol, will be at the Center as a Senior Visiting Scholar. Professor Bann will be bringing to completion a major edition of the letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay, which extends over the years 1964-74. This correspondence covers the vital period in which Finlay built upon his decisive move from metrical to concrete poetry, producing innovatory poster poems and poems sand-blasted on glass, and finally establishing his celebrated garden of Stonypath/Little Sparta, in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh. Professor Bann will also be initiating a project on “British Prints and Printmakers in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Senior Visiting Scholars are invited to spend one month at the Center annually for a term of three years, pursuing their research and participating in the intellectual life of the Center and Yale University. This is Professor Bann’s second year at the Center.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Scholars
This spring the Center welcomes four curators from different British museums as part of a new program generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program provides four-week residential fellowships to curators based in museums in regions in the UK, beyond London, whose curatorial remit or activities encompass British art. These awards are intended to enable curators to make use of the resources and collections of the Center, and other Yale holdings where relevant, in order to advance research on their own collections or curatorial projects. While in residence, visiting curators will be encouraged to engage with the scholarly community of the Center and at Yale, discuss their research projects, and share information about the collections they oversee. Our first curatorial scholars in this program, all visiting in Spring 2013, are:
March
Charlotte Keenan, Tomlinson Curator of Works on Paper, across the three art galleries managed by National Museums Liverpool; the Walker Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery and Sudley House. She will conduct research into the British artist Walter Sickert for a catalogue and major exhibition of works by the artist from their collection, planned for 2014 and tentatively titled Walter Richard Sickert: The Hand behind the Brush.
April
Sara Cooper, Collection Curator at the Towner, a contemporary art museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex, will investigate works in the Center’s collection by the British artist Robert Bevan, who was local to Eastbourne but is not yet represented in the Towner collection. She will examine Bevan’s connections with his contemporaries, including Sickert, Wadsworth and Nash, who are well-represented in the Center’s collections as well as in those at the Towner.
May
Anna Rhodes is Assistant Collections Officer, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, and coordinator for Enlightenment! Derbyshire, part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Enlightenment Project, a partnership focused on the enhancemnt and interpretation of collections relating to Derbyshire. She will investigate the Center’s holdings relating to 18th- and 19th-century Derbyshire, particularly topographical art by professional and amateur artists.
Lucy Salt, Keeper of Art for Derby Museums and Art Gallery, will conduct preliminary research for a major retrospective of Joseph Wright of Derby, which aims to revisit his artistic and Enlightenment legacy and explore the artist’s place in the shaping of the modern world, utilizing the YCBA’s own important collection of works by Wright and his contemporaries.
Fellowships | History of the Material Text at UCLA
Visiting Fellows in History of the Material Text
University of California Los Angeles
Applications due by 1 February 2013
The UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies announces two two-year visiting positions in History of the Material Text, to be housed in the Departments of History and English, respectively. These positions are designed to enable participation in the life of the Center and the appropriate Department, as well as fuller use of the riches of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the Special Collections of the UCLA Libraries. We seek scholars of early modern studies (16th-18th centuries), broadly defined, whose expertise includes but is not limited to book history, history of the material text, and print cultures, in Europe and beyond. Applicants should have received their doctorates in the last six years (no earlier than July 1, 2007 and no later than September 30, 2013).
Visiting fellows will teach two courses per year in their respective Department, one of which would be at the Clark Library. Fellows are also expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s working groups and other research initiatives. Fellows will receive a stipend of $50,000 per year, plus benefits for the fellow and dependents and a $3000 research fund.
Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 20-page writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to:
Barbara Fuchs, Director
Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies
310 Royce Hall Box 951404
UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90095-1404
Letters of recommendation may be also be submitted electronically to: c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu. Application dossiers are due by February 1, 2013.
Fellowship | Newberry-Kress in European Art and Art History
From The Newberry:
Newberry-Kress Fellowship in European Art and Art History
The Newberry Library, Chicago
Applications due by 15 January 2013
This fellowship offers support for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars; qualified applicants must be working on a European art history project covering the period prior to 1830.
The Newberry houses a variety of European art and the history of art and architecture within its collection. Most of these works relate to subject areas for which the library’s holdings are particularly strong. Particular collection strengths include medieval manuscripts; post-1500 European manuscripts; book illustrations; printing and book arts; calligraphy; maps, views, and topographical prints; caricatures and cartoons; and printed books and serials relating to the field of art history.
The total stipend for this fellowship is $2,500 for one month in residence. Please visit The Newberry website for more information.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in ‘Spatial Art History’
ARTL@S Postdoctoral Fellowship in ‘Spatial Art History’
École normale supérieure, Paris, 1 September 2013 — 31 August 2015
Applications due by 7 January 2013
The École normale supérieure (Paris), the LabEx TransferS, and ARTL@S (a digital humanities project sponsored by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) are pleased to announce a two-year postdoctoral position in the field of Spatial Art History. The postdoctoral fellow will participate in the activities of ARTL@S (www.artlas.ens.fr) while developing an independent research project pertaining to related questions in this field. Through his or her involvement within the international and transdisciplinary ARTL@S team, the fellow will acquire valuable experience, gain expertise, and develop his or her academic network, thereby increasing potential career prospects within the international academic community.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will have a PhD in art history or in a related field (i.e. History, Geography, Sociology, etc…), received no earlier than 2008, and will specialize in issues related to geography of art, global art history, or cultural heritage in a transnational perspective. He or she may work on any region or period between the 18th and the 21st centuries; however, preference will be given to non-Western European and non-North-American projects, and/or world-art historical or global art-historical projects. Candidates are invited to propose research projects that can benefit from the tools ARTL@S has developed (quantitative and serial analysis, databases, geographical information systems (GIS), digital cartography). The right candidate will also demonstrate a keen interest in digital humanities, especially in databases and cartography.
While previous experience in these fields, along with web development and GIS, is not a prerequisite, basic knowledge and a willingness to acquire expertise in those areas is essential. The postdoctoral fellow will indeed have to work with the ARTL@S’ database, GIS interface and website.
Likewise, fluency in French is not required, but some basic knowledge and a commitment to learn French and become fluent while living in Paris is. Intensive courses can be taken by the successful candidate at École normale supérieure for free. (more…)
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