Call for Applications
The Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest (IAS CEU) are pleased to invite applications for the Fritz Thyssen Junior fellowships for the academic year 2019/2020. Fellowships are available in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities. Fellowships run for the whole academic year (9 months, October 1- June 30) or for the Fall or Spring semesters (5 months, October 1 to Feb 28 or 6 months (Jan 1 to June 30). Junior fellowships are renewable for another year in exceptional cases and only after an external review process.
Fellows are chosen by a rigorous selection process, which includes stages of preselection and peer reviews as well as a final decision made by an independent, interdisciplinary and international Academic Advisory Board. The Institute is committed to the pursuit of cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and will seek innovative research proposals. Young scholars with demonstrable promise of excellence will be considered. All disciplines are welcome. A primary criterion for selection is the expectation that each fellow’s stay at the Institute will yield original and significant research results
IAS CEU is an independent Institute for Advanced Study. It is based at the Budapest campus of Central European University. IAS CEU provides a stimulating environment in which the fellows can devote themselves to their research and share their work with peers through weekly seminars and other community programs. Fellows have access to all CEU facilities, including seminar and conference space, computer services, and library resources. They also benefit from CEU’s vibrant international atmosphere, its strong ties in the CEE region and its location in culturally rich Budapest. IAS CEU facilitates the fellows’ engagement with CEU and the Hungarian scholarly community by encouraging collaborative projects, organizing joint public lectures, establishing student mentorship programs, and related activities.
Scholars at IAS CEU receive accommodation in the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse and a monthly stipend. Fellows must reside in Budapest during their fellowship year, participate in the intellectual life of the Institute and pursue their research agenda.
Qualifications, experience, eligibility
• Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent in the social sciences or humanities at the time of their application; to be eligible for the Fritz Thyssen Junior Fellowship, applicants must have obtained a Ph.D. degree issued in 2012 or later.
• Only those with publications in internationally recognized scholarly outlets are encouraged to apply.
• All nationalities are encouraged to apply for this type of fellowship. We have no thematic restrictions (other than expecting proposals in the social sciences and humanities only).
• Full time CEU employees and students are not eligible to apply for 5 years after the ending of their studies/contract (degrees must be received and contracts must have ended by December 31, 2014 or earlier).
• Part time/temporary employees of CEU are not eligible for 1 year after their contract ended (their contract must have ended by December 31, 2018 or earlier).
• Former fellows of IAS CEU are not eligible to apply until a period of 7 years has passed since their previous fellowship. Applications may be considered only in exceptional cases.
• Reapplication is possible only 3 times within a period of 5 years.
• Applicants are expected to be able to communicate fluently in English as this is the working language of the Institute and CEU.
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https://ias.ceu.edu/thyssen-ias-ceu-fellowship