Call for Applications: Visiting Research Fellows Berlin
Call for Applications: Visiting Research Fellows Berlin
Date: July 9, 2010
Joint call for applications for Visiting Research Fellowships 2011 Zentrum Moderner Orient / Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
We are inviting applications to our Visiting Research Fellowship Schemes, for the calendar year of 2011. We are interested in attracting outstanding researchers who are engaged in research projects that are relevant to the respective research profiles at ZMO (www.zmo.de) and BGSMCS (www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de). ZMO is an interdisciplinary research institute with an international community of researchers pursuing research with regional and trans-regional focus on societies in Africa, the Middle East, and South- and Central Asia and their interrelations (as well as their relations to Europe). The current main research programme is concerned with social and historical dimensions of the Muslim world. This research interest is shared with the BGSMCS, which is an interdisciplinary Graduate School of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and ZMO, and funded as part of the Excellence Initiative by the German federal government. The Graduate School has an international body of students and draws from a range of experienced researchers based in various institutions in Berlin who act as Principle Investigators and supervisors.
The call is open for senior researchers and recent postdocs as well as finishing PhD students in the humanities and social sciences. They are invited to apply for a monthly stipend (1500 EUR for PhD students, 2500 EUR for all postdoctoral researchers) and a period of stay that should normally last 1-2 months. ZMO seeks to select about 6 postdoctoral and 4 doctoral fellows; BGMCS is looking for 2-4 postdoctoral and doctoral fellows. Slots are available throughout the year, and as we will allocate fellowships throughout all the months of the year, we ask applicants to indicate their preferred month(s) of stay as well as their potential flexibility. We particularly encourage applications by candidates from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. For successful applicants from these regions, financial support for travel is available. The applications will be reviewed by a ZMO selection committee. The decisions should be made within a period of about 6 weeks after the deadline for submission of applications.
Applications can be emailed or posted, and should include:
CV, including complete list of publications Project description of research project to be worked upon during visit (max. 3 pages) A brief cover letter For PhD students: two letters of reference
Deadline: 15 September 2010
For any further information, please consult our websites, or contact us directly at zmo@rz.huberlin.
de or office@bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de; please email the finalized applications to us at zmo@rz.hu-berlin.de as the selection process will be coordinated from here.
ZMO
Kirchweg 33
14129 Berlin
GERMANY
BGSMCS
Altensteinstr. 48
14195 Berlin
GERMANY
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Dr. Nora Lafi (Researcher, BMBF)
Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany