Individual projects

The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology honors the contribution of Brooke Hindle to the work of the Society for the History of Technology. The Fellowship, made possible thanks to the great generosity of his family, is for $10,000 and may be used, as further detailed below, for any purpose connected with research or writing in the history of technology for a period of not less than three months during the calendar year following the award.

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli promuove un bando per una borsa di studio nell’ambito dell’area di Cittadinanza europea per la ricerca “Cittadinanze possibili. Oltre le povertà e l’esclusione”.

The Leo Baeck Institute is offering a Career Development Award as a personal grant to a scholar or professional in an early career stage, e.g. before gaining tenure in an academic institution or its equivalent, whose proposed work would deal with topics within the Leo Baeck Institute’s mission, namely historical or cultural issues of the Jewish experience in German-speaking lands.

The award of up to $20,000 will cover the period July 1 – June 30 of the following year and, at the discretion of the reviewing board, may be renewed for a second year.

L'appel à projets 2018 est destiné à financer des contrats doctoraux de trois ans ou des contrats postdoctoraux d’une durée maximale de deux ans.

The BBVA Foundation expresses the social responsibility engagement of the BBVA Group, along with its firm commitment to the advance­ment of the societies where it does business. The central planks of the Group’s culture and strategy are the promotion of knowledge, digi­tal technology and innovation, and scrupulous respect for the ethical principles characterizing the plural society of the 21st century, which it views as key drivers of ongoing value creation for people and a source of new opportunities and choices for individuals and groups.

The Oriente Foundation awards scholarships to researchers with advanced training in projects involving relations between Portugal and the East, in the areas of social sciences and humanities, with priority to the study of the Museu do Oriente collections.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must possess at least a Master’s degree and present a research project that fits in with the goals of Fundação Oriente’s scholarship programmes.

DURATION

Scholarships have a duration of 12 months. This period may exceptionally be extended up to a maximum of 36 months.

The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support independent-minded researchers working in Political Economy, which the ISRF here extends to include the social scientific study of economies across the whole range of the social sciences.

The work would be conceptually innovative, interdisciplinary, and unlikely to be funded by existing funding bodies.

Eligible Applicants

Within the General Research Funding Programme of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the focus lies on the Historical Humanities, in particular Archaeology, History, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, History of Law, Prehistory and Early History, History of Science.

Applications from neighbouring disciplines are possible if the core research question is historically oriented.