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Call for Applications: Holocaust Studies Exchange Program

  • December 25, 2015

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The Center for Holocaust Studies during a Institute of Contemporary History Munich and a Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies during a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are gratified to announce support for an sell of scholars-in-residence.

This sell is designed for PhD candidates, early postdoctoral researchers, and youth expertise members for a purpose of furthering German-American partnership and joining to cutting-edge Holocaust-related research.

Applicants to a Center for Holocaust Studies during a Institute of Contemporary History (Germany) contingency be US adults (or green-card holders) formed during US institutions or universities and operative on a Holocaust-related theme who wish to spend adult to 4 months during a Institute of Contemporary History (in Munich and/or Berlin) during a 2016 calendar year. Applicants to a Mandel Center (United States) contingency be German scholars formed during German institutions or universities and operative on a Holocaust-related theme who wish to spend adult to 4 months during a Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC, during a 2016 calendar year.

Proposals are acquire from scholars in all applicable disciplines, including history, domestic science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, analogous genocide studies, law, and others. Applicants contingency be PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, or youth expertise who perceived their PhD in 2011 or after and contingency be enrolled in or expertise or staff of a degree-granting educational or modernized investigate institution. Applicants in transition between appointments contingency yield a minute explanation.

US field should denote a need to implement a endless land of a Institute of Contemporary History and other critical repository in Berlin and/or Munich. Successful field are approaching to attend in investigate and contention groups and to broach a harangue on their investigate during a Center for Holocaust Studies. German field should denote a need to implement a endless land of a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Successful field are approaching to attend in a erudite life of a Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and to broach a harangue on their investigate to Center staff and fellows.

Each establishment will yield work space and entrance to a computer, telephone, and photocopier. Stipends operation adult to $3,200 per month (and adult to a homogeneous volume in euros, for American scholars) for a purpose of defraying internal housing and other diverse vital expenses. Awards embody a one-time contribution of $1,200 to equivalent a cost of approach transport to and from Germany or Washington. Successful field are obliged for securing their possess accommodations and health insurance. The endowment does not embody support allowances for concomitant family members.

Application Process
Applications might be submitted in English or German and should include:
– A plan proposal, not to surpass 5 single-spaced pages, demonstrating a need to use a resources accessible during a Institute of Contemporary History or a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
– A curriculum vitae (CV) that includes a full list of publications to date.
– Two sealed letters of recommendation that pronounce to a stress of a due plan and a applicant’s ability to lift it out.

Accepting applications November 15, 2015 to February 1, 2016

Decisions will be announced in late Mar 2016.

Contact:
Please approach inquiries and applications to:

German Applicants:
Jo-Ellyn Decker
Program Manager
Visiting Scholar Programs
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(T) 202.314.7829
cahsifzexchange(at)ushmm.org

US Applicants:
Dr. Andrea Löw
Stellvertretende Leiterin
Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am
Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Leonrodstr. 46 b.
80636 München
Germany
(T) 0049-89-552790710
loew(at)ifz-muenchen.de

Funding for German scholars has been done probable by a Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation (US). Funding for American Scholars has been done probable by a German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung).

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