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Posted by: American Research Center in Egypt
Deadline: Wed, January 15th, 2020
Coptic Icons Postdoctoral Fellowship
This two-year fellowship is open to U.S. citizen postdoctoral scholars. The successful applicant will work in the ARCE Archive in Cairo with materials from a USAID-funded project (1998-2004) that documented and conserved Byzantine through the Ottoman period Coptic icons. S/he will assess the Coptic Icons database and project documentation, and crosscheck and reference the meta-data contained in the database against some 3000 images.
Expected outputs for the first year include the submission of an article to a peer-reviewed journal, an article for ARCE’s Scribe Magazine and a report for the ARCE website Expected output for the second fellowship year is a draft manuscript. The primary subject of research investigation should be a critical examination of some aspect of the history, thought, or culture of Coptic Christianity as related to the Coptic Icons database.
Scholars who focus on Coptic or Byzantine iconography from disciplines such as art history, history, philosophy and theology/religious studies or other related humanities disciplines are encouraged to apply. Doctoral candidates with PhD in hand by September 15, 2020 are eligible to apply. The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs funds the fellowship through a grant to the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
The Theodore N. Romanoff Prize is open to doctoral candidates (ABD) and recent Ph.D. recipients (degree granted between 2015-2019) conducting research on the language or historical texts of ancient Egypt, including the Coptic language as the final stage of historic Egyptian languages. American scholars worldwide and non-American scholars studying or teaching at an American university in the United States are eligible to apply. Research must be conducted in Egypt. Applicants may apply for this funding as a stand-alone fellowship or combine it with other funding sources.
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Posted on Thu, October 17th, 2019
Expires on Wed, January 15th, 2020
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