Call for Applications: Master`s Scholarships 2015/2016, St Petersburg (Russia) [
Higher School of Economics - Saint-Petersburg (Russia) opens positions for Master`s Students! Scholarships for studies at a new Master`s Programme in Applied and Interdisciplinary History are Available now. This is a two year programme totally held in English.
Application for scholarships due to: May 15, 2015.
The programme is founded on a practical focus, proposing both
traditional training methods focused on research and developing practical
skills related to applied history. On the one hand, the programme focuses on
preparing students for work in the public sphere right after graduation. Other
objective implies that the programme produces graduates with strong background
for further academic career: it trains students in new historical approaches
and methodologies that will make them successful in application to PhD
programmes.
Built on international experience of developing similar
programmes, we use methodologies of global, comparative and transnational
historical research that facilitate the study of patterns connecting European,
Russian, Eurasian and global history. A crucial feature of the programme is its
interdisciplinary character. In our view, applied history suffers from
insufficient dialogue with research in other disciplines, not limited to other
branches of humanities but social and natural sciences, including economics,
geography and ecology. For that reason, the programme not only solicits
applicants with undergraduate degrees in history, but actively seeks to enroll
applicants with degrees in social sciences, economics, law as well as the
natural sciences and engineering.
The programme is centered in St. Petersburg, which is a UNESCO
World site. St. Petersburg and the surrounding areas are uniquely rich in
museums, monuments, cultural-natural and archaeological heritage sites that
provide unique opportunities for practical training. The history of the
metropolitan imperial city and its complex environment provide ample
opportunities to study variegated practices of preservation of material legacy
and approaches to historical memory studies including symbolic representations
of its imperial and Soviet past.
See more http://spb.hse.ru/en/ma/apphist/More about application for funding
http://www.hse.ru/admissions/