Funding Opportunities

CEHS Research Grants for Dissertation and Postdoctoral Travel for Central
European History

Deadline: January 31, 2014

The Central European History Society (CEHS) seeks applications from North American doctoral candidates (ABD) and recent PhDs (up to three years after completion of degree) in Central European history for travel and research grants up to $6,000. Funds are intended to support dissertation research and follow-up research, and may be used on travel between 1 April and 31 December 2014.

Applicants should be affiliated with an accredited North American institution of higher education and a member of the Central European History Society at or near the time of application. Membership in CEHS is automatic with an individual subscription to the journal /Central European History/ ($27 annually for graduate students and $42 for others). See
www.centraleuropeanhistory.org for membership.

Application Procedure:
The following materials are required:

• Application Form
• Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of Purpose (1000 word limit)
• 2 Letters of Recommendation
• Budget Worksheet
• Written Project Report (required at the conclusion of the grant)

For the online application, see:  www.wizehive.com/apps/CEHS2014

All materials, including letters of reference, must be received by the official deadline of January 31, 2014.  Applicants are advised to give their referees several weeks notice of their need for a letter. For further information or inquiries, please contact Prof. Celia Applegate, Vanderbilt University: celia.applegate@vanderbilt.edu.

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“Capital and Commodities:”  The Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2014-2015) 

For the Institute’s 2014–15 program, we invite proposals for research into the history of capital and commodities.  The co-development of financial and ecological crises, the global proliferation of mass consumerism, and ongoing social and military conflicts over access to natural resources suggest the critical importance of historicizing the study of capital and commodities.  Indeed, over the last several decades, historians have compiled an impressive body of work on the history of commodities and their production, circulation, uses, and cultural significance. Research into commodity chains has forced historians to consider questions of social identity formation and has invigorated analysis of systems of communication and representation.  Historical studies have also revealed the impact of
commodity production and consumption on natural landscapes and sociopolitical formations.  Recent globalized economic crises have further helped focus scholarly attention on how commodity exchange and capitalcreation involve the conjunctural dimensions of history:  credit booms and debt crises, cycles of inflation and deflation, economic growth (and its intellectual constructions) and limits to growth.   In this vein, the
Institute encourages analytical approaches that underscore the sociocultural, political, environmental and intellectual underpinnings of the history of capital and commodities.  We especially welcome proposals that encompass broad timespans (including the medieval and early modern periods) and that reach across geographic areas and disciplinary boundaries. Read more at:

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/news/7106

The IHS invites applications for resident fellows at all ranks. Deadline: January 15, 2014 (12:00 midnight CST). For more information about the institute’s fellowship and application process, please visit:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/fellowships/resident-fellows.php

For further information on IHS, including events programming and applications for residential fellowships for 2013-14, please visit the IHS website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/

Queries: historyinstitute@austin.utexas.edu

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Generous Scholarships Available: The Department of History at Central
European University

Central European University is an English-language, graduate university with an urban campus located in the beautiful center of the thriving cultural capital–Budapest, Hungary.  A university with students from over 100 countries and faculty from more than 40, CEU offers a cosmopolitan learning environment in small, seminar-style courses with a
student/faculty ratio of 8:1.  CEU is accredited in the United States as well as the European Union (Hungary).

CEU’s Department of History offers students interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on the history and culture of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe in conjunction with the Ottoman, Middle Eastern, and larger Eastern Mediterranean world.  Our curriculum covers this broad Eurasian span from the early modern period to the present, and we also encourage our students to take classes and engage with
faculty and peers in other disciplines at the University such as Medieval Studies, Anthropology, Public Policy, Gender Studies, Sociology, Environmental Studies, as well as Legal Studies just to name a few.   Our community challenges our students to craft cutting-edge research projects in dialogue with the current debates and research at
the forefront of the social sciences and humanities.  Please visit our website to learn more about our thriving community in the department as well as the success stories of our recent alumni who have landed coveted positions in competitive tenure-track posts, the world’s top PhD programs, as well as high positions in government, NGOs, and the private
sector.

Programs offered:

•  Master of Arts in Central European History (One Year)
•  Master of Arts in Comparative History: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe 1500-2000 (Two Years)
•  Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History (MATILDA) (Two Years)
•  Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
•  Specializations in Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Selected Areas of Research:

• Comparative history of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian
• Empires
• Nationalism Studies
• Social and Cultural History
• Gender Studies
• Labor and Migration History
• Comparative history of fascism
• Comparative history of communism
• Comparative religious studies
• Urban studies
• Late antique and early modern history
• Intellectual history

While earning degrees at CEU, we also encourage our students to take advantage of paleography as well as language classes in the Department and CEU’s Source Language Teaching Unit that teaches beginning,intermediate, as well as advanced Arabic, Armenian, Ancient Greek, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, German, Hungarian, Latin, Russian, Ottoman
Turkish, Turkish and others.

The application deadline is January 23, 2014.  Early applications are encouraged.
For inquiries about the department, the programs, the funding schemes, and the admission process, or for any other questions related to our department, please contact Ms. Agnes Bendik: BendikAg@ceu.hu
For more information: http://bit.ly/1j6Z17T. The CEU History Department is also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=37739447124