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Sandra Araújo, Visiting Research Fellow

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:18:00 GMT

From December 2022 to November 2023, Dr Sandra Araújo (Universidade de Lisboa) will join the Global History and Culture Centre as a Visiting Research Fellow after having been awarded the First Book Grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation (FBG-ISRF) for her project "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambiqye, 1964-74". Read more about Dr Araújo's work here.

Applications invited for a PhD studentship

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:19:17 GMT

Metallic Empire: Science, Energy, and Industrial Imperialism in the John Percy Collection, 1817–89

Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees and maintenance) to be held at the Department of History, University of Warwick and the Science Museum, London. The studentship focuses on the colonial and industrial history of the John Percy Collection, held at the Science Museum, London. The Percy Collection comprises over 3,700 mineralogical specimens, including coal from South Africa, silver from Australia, and copper from India. The collection was made by John Percy FRS (1817–1889), and then subsequently acquired by the South Kensington Museum on his death.

call for applications for the EUI-funded PhD programme

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:58:05 GMT

The call for applications for the EUI funded PhD programme is opening on 1 November 2021. The EUI Department of History and Civilisation offers exceptional opportunities to study global connections from early modern to modern European history, in the magical city and setting of Florence.

Fellows of the British Academy

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:42:03 GMT

We are *extremely* proud that TWO associates of the Warwick Global History and Culture Centre (one a current member, Rebecca Earle, and one a key former member, Gurminder Bhambra, have been elected as fellows of the British Academy.

See also: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/gurminder-bhambra-fba/

Research Fellowships in Munich

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:14:00 GMT

Call for applications issued by the recently founded Munich Centre for Global History:
The Munich Centre for Global History is advertising research fellowships for the summer term 2020. The fellowships have a duration of between 1 and 3 months and can be flexibly timed within the winter term. The call is open for postdoctoral researchers. They particularly encourage experienced colleagues in the field of global history to also consider applying.

The Munich Centre for Global History is a recently founded, interdisciplinary centre that seeks to bundle global history research in Munich and serves as a platform for innovative projects and approaches in the field. A wide range of different disciplines with a historiographical angle - such as archaeology, geography, art history or theatre studies to name but a few - are contributing to the centre. The centre will become fully operational with the summer term 2019. The attached call for applications is looking for the third cohort of fellows. Similar calls will be issued for the following terms.

2015 International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR)

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 13:11:02 GMT

Congratulations to Elizabeth Denny who has received one of the ten fellowships to attend the 2015 International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Monash University in Australia.