Applications Invited for Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grant

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About the Organization

Max Weber Foundation is a legal entity closely linked to the German Federal Government located in Bonn. It comprises ten humanities research institutes.

The Foundation’s goal is to promote research with a focus on history, culture, economic and social sciences in selected countries and to promote a mutual understanding between Germany and those countries.

The Max Weber Foundation is the only German research institute which is academically active abroad exclusively due to its programme of work. Through its own research, extensive publications, international events and numerous scholarships it makes a considerable contribution towards an international exchange through its institutes, in regard of questions, methods and results of humanities research. In this way it strengthens both the position of the humanities in Germany and that of German humanities in an international context.

About the Grant

Once a year the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to academics in the qualification phase with an international focus.

The travel grants are meant to improve the career opportunities for humanities and social science academics in their qualification phase. The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches or at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History (for a list of the host countries please see "Countries and regions", please also note the current notice here). The total term of funding shall not exceed three months. Placements (at most one month per host country, shorter stays are possible) are to be used for research, especially in libraries and archives. Academics are expected to produce transnational and transregional studies, providing research with new and original ideas. The research placements should ideally be completed within 12 months, or at most 24.

Eligibility

Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (highest degree must be at least a Master, M.A., state examination or German Diplom) who have already published and can present a research plan. Applications for projects related to research priorities pursued by the Foundation’s institutes/branches will take precedence.

• The selection criteria are:
• Academic excellence
• Transnational and/or comparative topic
• Submitted project contributes to further academic qualification

A re-application is only possible if this has been explicitly stated in the rejection letter.

Employees and scholarship holders of the MWS are excluded from the application process.

How to Apply

Please e-mail your application by using the required form to

feldman(at)maxweberstiftung.de

Information on how to send your application data to us in encrypted form can be found here: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/foerderung/verschluesselung.html

The deadline for applications is 7 October 2022.

The selection committee is expected to meet at the beginning of December 2022. The grants can be called forward from January 2023.

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