Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University is no longer accepting applications for its 2012-13 postdoctoral fellowship program. Please visit this page in August 2012 for information about applying for 2013-14 fellowships.

Applicants for 2012-13 fellowships must have received the Ph.D. after May 2009. Applicants without the Ph.D. must demonstrate that they will receive the Ph.D. in or before June 2012. Completed applications must be postmarked by November 15, 2011.

Fellowships will be awarded to support projects that share the Center’s commitment to interdisciplinarity and internationalism. The Center welcomes applications from all fields within the humanities and the allied social sciences. Despite the great diversity among humanities disciplines, they are joined in their commitment to the spirit of informed and independent interpretation—for individuals and groups—as a process crucial to making judgments about the relationship between facts and values. The Mahindra Humanities Center has taken on the role of exploring this important ethical and epistemological dimension of the humanities.

Fellows will be joined at the Center by postdoctoral fellows from Germany, who will be coming as part of a collaboration between the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Volkswagen Foundation. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Harvard for the term of the fellowship.

Fellows will receive stipends of $55,000, individual medical insurance, moving assistance of $1,500, and additional research support of $2,500.

Click here for the application and details about supplementary materials. Please contact Shannon Mackey with questions about applying for a fellowship.

VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation

The Volkswagen Foundation sponsors several fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. These fellowships are intended to give young German scholars the opportunity to take advantage of Harvard's libraries, archives, and other facilities, thereby providing opportunities for research and interdisciplinary exchange. Fellows will be able to strengthen their research knowledge and profile in a specific field of the humanities in an international perspective. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Harvard for the term of the fellowship.

Applicants should have finished their Ph.D. with outstanding results two or three years (maximum five years) before. The selection of the fellows will be jointly organized by the Foundation and the Mahindra Humanities Center in a two-step procedure.

Further information about Volkswagen Foundation Fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center can be found here.