The Center for Jewish History is offering a range of research fellowships that will provide access to the collections of the Center’s partners – American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. While in residence at the Center, fellows will participate in a lively academic community, engaging and producing new scholarship in Jewish studies and other fields.

Graduate Research Fellowship

Deadline: February 2, 2017

This is a ten-month fellowship, open to doctoral candidates with ABD status. Fellows receive a $17,5000 stipend and additional funding may be available for applicants at university more than 125 miles from New York City.

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars

Deadline: January 16, 2017

This is a ten-month fellowship open to scholars from outside North American and Israel. Fellows will receive a stipend of up to $35,000.

 

Full application guidelines can be found on the Center for Jewish History’s website. For more information, please contact Chris Barthel at cbarthel@cjh.org.

The International Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme awards fellowships to doctoral students who carry out research into the history and culture of Central European Jewry. We welcome projects on any period or field (including literature, philosophy, history, musicology), and any region (such as Europe, Israel, the Americas), as long as they relate to German-speaking Jewry. In addition to financial support for one year, the program offers an opportunity to exchange ideas and to network. It is open to doctoral candidates of any nationality, studying at any university. All fellows remain at their home institution, but get together for two workshops which are jointly organized by the Studienstiftung de deutschen Volkes and the Leo Baeck Institute London.

More information and where to apply can be found on the website of the Studienstiftung or on the website of the Leo Baeck Institute London.

Deadline: February 1, 2017

The Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies is bringing together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to work on the religious and political vocabulary of the Septuagint, combining the expertise of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, where it will be based, with the resources of the Oxford Classics Faculty and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philogy and Phonetics. The project will illuminate for biblical scholars the cultural world who produced and read the books of the Septuagint, and will illuminate for classical scholars the ways in which Jews of the Greek world adapted to the dominant culture and influenced it in turn.

Weekly interdisciplinary seminars, and a series of workshops will bring specialists in the Septuagint together with classicists, linguists, historians, and historians of religion. Septuagint vocabulary will be examined along with the Hellenistic cultural background and the methodological problems relating to the background.

Weekly seminars will be convened through the duration of two Oxford terms: January 14 to March 10, 2018 and April 22 to June 16, 2018. These will offer a forum for the Fellows to address central research topics related to the overall theme of the Seminar. The concluding conference will be held June 25-27, 2018.

Visiting Fellows will receive an allowance of £2,515 (pro rata) per calendar month for the period of their tenure. Traveling expenses up to £550 will also be provided, and the Fellows will be provided with a college association during their time at Oxford. Applicants should indicate the specific research they would undertake in the course of the Fellowship and how this research would contribute to the broader work of the project. Applications by senior scholars, and by scholars at the postdoctoral and advanced doctoral level, are welcome. For more information and where to apply, please visit the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies’s website.

Deadline: December 16, 2016

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives is pleased to announce that is accepting applications for its 2017 Fellowship program. In 2017, 5-6 fellowships will be awarded to seniors scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Research topic sin the fields of twentieth century Jewish History, modern history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections. The fellowship awards are $2,500-$5,000.

Deadline: January 15, 2017

The Association for Jewish Studies invites applications for its second annual Dissertation Completion Fellowship competition. This program is generously supported through a grant from Legacy Heritage Fund. Launched in 2016, this fellowship program awards seven finishing-year fellowships annually ($20,000 each) to PhD students entering the final year of their programs and completing a dissertation in the field of Jewish Studies. The Fall 2016 competition will support fellowships in the 2017-2018 academic year.

The Dissertation Completion Fellowships will encourage the timely completion of doctorates by the most promising graduate students in the field; create a cohort of fellows who will lead the field of Jewish Studies for decades to come; expose new audiences to Jewish Studies scholarships through fellows’ public lectures; and promote continued growth of academic Jewish Studies, at a time of institutional cutbacks in the humanities and social science. The program will both provide resources to fellows, in the form of a $20,000 stipend, as well as professional development opportunities, through a mid-year workshop and ongoing contact with mentors during the fellowship year. Only students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertations and who display clear evidence of their ability to defend their dissertations by June 20, 2018 are eligible to apply for this program.

A unique feature of the program will be its public engagement component. Each fellow will be asked to give one public lecture or workshop at the end of their fellowship year in which they will share their research with a general audience. The purpose of this public speaking component is to give fellows crucial experience in making their work accessible to an interested but non-expert public, and to help satisfy the great demand for engaging and sophisticated discussion of Jewish history, literature, religion, and culture.

For further information, including application instructions please visit the AJS website. Questions? Contact Amy Weiss, AJS Grants and communications Coordinator, at aweiss@ajs.cjh.org. You can apply via Interfolio at this link.

Deadline: December 6, 2016