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University of Oxford - The Queen's College

Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures

£37,174 plus discretionary Queen's weighting of £1,500 per annum

The Queen's College, University of Oxford, is offering a fixed-term (non-renewable) Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text for candidates who hold, or are close to completing, a doctorate in history, literature, language or a related field specialising in the ancient and early medieval Near and Middle East, the ancient and early medieval Mediterranean, the ancient and early medieval East, South, and South-East Asia, or early medieval Europe. Candidates' research should reflect the methods and concerns of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, i.e., candidates should have a research agenda examining material aspects of writing and text-production, as well as transmission and the interface between the oral and the written, before the widespread adoption of printed texts and across the literate societies within their area of expertise. Candidates researching areas that are underrepresented in UK universities are particularly welcome to apply, as are those combining traditional humanities research with innovative use of information technology or AI, and those who seek to enhance their research by collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines.
As well as engaging in their own research, the Junior Research Fellow will be expected to take an active role in the interdisciplinary research Centre on Manuscript and Text Cultures<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk%2F&data=05%7C02%7Chejobs%40jobs.ac.uk%7C4acdbb5cd0fd482a66be08dd319125a2%7C09bacfbd47ef446592653546f2eaf6bc%7C0%7C0%7C638721221673152631%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=n9vAWL2E%2B9nVaeXVBxwIs9ZBc9EHnNubhXdEiPbYtKI%3D&reserved=0> (CMTC) at the College, a platform for international specialists and research students to engage in close dialogue across areas of expertise and inform each other about different approaches and theories of knowledge-production and text-transmission in pre-modern manuscript cultures. It is further expected that between the second and third year of their fellowship the Fellow will play a major role in convening an international interdisciplinary conference relevant to the activities of CMTC, and contribute to the subsequent scholarly publication.
The Fellowship offers early career researchers the opportunity to develop their research within one of the world's leading universities and so strengthen their future position in the academic job market. Many previous Junior Research Fellows have moved on to permanent faculty positions at leading world universities. The Junior Research Fellowship is tenable for a fixed term of three years and it is expected that the successful candidate will take up the post no later than 1st October 2025. Eligible candidates should have no more than two years of post-doctoral research experience by 1st October 2025.
We are committed to fostering equality, diversity, and inclusiveness. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled people and people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, as these groups are currently under-represented in the College's academic staff.

Place of Work
Main College site in central Oxford.

Salary and Allowances
The annual salary for this post is £37,174 plus a discretionary pensionable £1,500 per annum Queen's Weighting payment which will be paid in monthly instalments. A personal academic allowance of £1,959 per annum is provided by the College for academic activities such as conference attendance, research assistance, and the purchase of books and IT equipment.

Closing Date
Midday 17th February 2025
Interviews are expected to be held in the week beginning Monday 17th March 2025.
Further Particulars and Application Guidance
Further Particulars are available at https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/junior-research-fellowship-in-manuscript-and-text-cultures/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.queens.ox.ac.uk%2Fvacancies%2Fjunior-research-fellowship-in-manuscript-and-text-cultures%2F&data=05%7C02%7Chejobs%40jobs.ac.uk%7C4acdbb5cd0fd482a66be08dd319125a2%7C09bacfbd47ef446592653546f2eaf6bc%7C0%7C0%7C638721221673176724%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5nKW09ZO97n6VaF8rut6D4pBqhSn8TzxR4vCd7tx0Yc%3D&reserved=0>    

Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies

Call for applications
2 scholarships (predoc) in Ancient Studies starting 2025 at Freie Universität Berlin
The Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) is offering 2 predoc scholarships at Freie
Universität Berlin in 2025 in the field of Ancient Studies. Funding is available from 1 April 2025 onwards at
the earliest for 6 months. An extension is not possible. You receive a scholarship of EUR 1,000 per month.
At the beginning of the scholarship, you must be admitted to doctoral studies (Zulassung zur Promotion)
of the Freie Universität Berlin. https://www.geschkult.fu-
berlin.de/studium/downloadbereich/index.html#faq_promotion
Funding is available to graduates who have completed their Master's degree by 15 January 2025 and are
planning to conduct & complete their doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin, within BerGSAS.
When submitting your application, please specify who the potential academic supervisor of your doctoral
dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin should be. Please enclose her/his letter of confirmation. More
information on the range of subjects in Ancient Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin https://www.fu-
berlin.de/einrichtungen/fachbereiche/fb/gesch-kultur/altwiss/index.html, and on the Graduate School
https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/bergsas/index.html
The purpose of the predoc scholarship is to complete a proposal for a doctoral dissertation topic to be
sent to potential scholarship providers (e.g., Elsa Neumann Foundation; Gerda Henkel Foundation;
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) within the 6-month funding period. It is expected that your dissertation
will be written at and submitted to the Freie Universität. Predoc scholarship holders, who successfully
apply for external doctoral funding, will be admitted as full members to BerGSAS and participate in the
curriculum of a structured doctoral program.
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Application documents (in German or English, Arial 12pt, 1.5 line):
a letter of motivation (maximal 1 page, A4)
a project outline for a doctoral dissertation (ca. 6,000 characters including spaces)
a letter of confirmation of the potential supervisor of your doctoral dissertation at FU Berlin
a curriculum vitae (cv, resume)
university transcripts: B.A., M.A.
English language certificate e.g., IELTS or TOEFL: C1 (only if your mother tongue is not German or English)
In addition, a letter of recommendation from one of the supervisors of your MA thesis is required. The
reviewer should send the letter directly to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein.
The deadline for your application is 00:00 CET on 15 January 2025. The selection committee will not
consider incomplete or late applications. For further inquiries, please contact the coordinator, Dr Regina
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The Department of Classics at Brown University

invites applications for two (2) two-year, non-renewable

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies

to begin July 1, 2025. We seek junior colleagues with terminal

degrees *(either Ph.D. or MFA) *whose work directly addresses the

classicization of the Ancient Greeks and Romans; critiques the structures

of power, exclusion, erasure, and violence that have scaffolded past and

present models of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (i.e. Classics); and/or

speculates about alternative models to studying these ancient cultures and

others. Successful applicants will be appointed as Postdoctoral Research

Associates.


The Fellowship is *open to areas of research and creative practice not

traditionally housed within Ancient Greek and Roman Studies *(e.g. art,

film, creative writing, translation studies, political science, language

pedagogy, higher education studies, public humanities, museum studies,

indigenous studies, decolonial studies, performance or performance history,

music) *and to more traditional subfields *(e.g. art history, literary

studies/philology, archaeology,  ancient history, philosophy, reception

studies). Ideal candidates position their work's intervention in relation

to other disciplines, fields, institutions, and/or industries. They

prioritize making contributions to academic, artistic, and/or activist

communities. The work can take the form of traditional scholarship (e.g.

monographs and articles)* or be pedagogical, public-facing, creative, or

otherwise trans/inter/extra-disciplinary*.


The fellows selected in this competition will join fellows

<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/people/scholars-fellows> already

in residence and form a community committed to refining methodologies well

established at Brown and in the field as well as to co-developing new

approaches to Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.


Brown University seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to

maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly

varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing,

learning, and creating. Therefore, the Department of Classics particularly

welcomes applications from members of groups that have been minoritized and

underrepresented in academia. A required application form asks every

applicant to summarize their approach to and experience in creating

equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities. This history might include

academic teaching, mentoring, and service, activism, or other forms of

community engagement and leadership.


In lieu of formal teaching responsibilities, fellows will be given the time

and  support necessary to complete their projects during the fellowship

term and to share those projects with communities on and off-campus. Each

fellow should expect to host one departmental event (e.g. lecture,

symposium, performance, screening) and one informal event (e.g. workshop,

interview, open rehearsal, table read, write-on-site) that prioritize

graduate students in the Department of Classics each academic year. They

will also participate in regular cohort-building and mentoring activities.


Each fellow will earn a salary of $65,000 in year 1 and $70,000 in year 2.

In addition to a full benefits package, each fellow will receive a research

fund of $10,000 and access to a shared office space. Fellows are expected

to be in residence for the full term of the fellowship and, if applicable,

will receive a $3,000 moving allowance to ease the burden of relocation.

Further information, including application details, can be found at

http://apply.interfolio.com/151765.


Any questions should be directed towards the chair of the Search Committee, Dr.

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