[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfA: Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Short-term Research Fellowships (Deadline: 25.10)

[Agron Alibali]

 Florian Bieber <bieberf at gmx.net> wrote:From Florian Bieber Fri Oct 18 01:06:22 2002
To: balkans at yahoogroups.com
From: Florian Bieber 
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:06:22 +0200
Subject: [balkans] CfA: Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Short-term Research
Fellowships (Deadline: 25.10)

"Petra Ticha" <ticha at ssrc.org>

Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Short-term Research Fellowships Application 
deadline has been extended until October 25.

Please follow the guidelines in this announcement from CSS The 
Ethnobarometer Program of the Italian Social Science Council (CSS), in 
collaboration with the Program on Global Security & Cooperation of the
Social Science Research Council (SSRC), will conduct an exchange of young 
Eastern European and American scholars. The exchange will be limited to 
students seeking advanced degrees in the social sciences and pursuing 
research on issues of inter-ethnic relations and ethnic conflict in 
Southeast Europe. The exchange program offers a total of eight 3-month 
fellowships (four Eastern Europeans and four Americans). The fellows will 
be placed in institutions appropriate to their knowledge base and research
skills, starting in February or March 2003.

Each fellowship will cover the cost of trans-Atlantic travel and a per diem 
adequate for living expenses.

To be eligible for the exchange program, candidates must:

Be a Ph.D. candidate, or hold a Master degree, preferably in one of the 
following disciplines: political science, sociology, anthropology, history, 
law Be a citizen of an Eastern European country
Be fluent in the English language
Show that they have been or are presently engaged in research on issues of 
interethnic relations, ethnic conflict, including issues of human rights, 
migration and democratisation processes when relevant to inter-ethnic 
relations
Submit a curriculum vitae and a brief statement describing the research 
interests they would like to pursue during their 3-month tenure at an 
American center; preference will be given to those candidates whose 
interests are relevant to the research areas of the Ethnobarometer Program, 
as described in www.ethnobarometer.org <http://www.ethnobarometer.org>
Submit two reference letters Submit a personal statement of how the 
fellowship would aid their careers, and their intention to pursue relevant 
work beyond the fellowship tenure Commit themselves to submit, not later 
than July 30, 2003, a report on the work done during their stay in the US. 
The report must discuss the contacts they established with other scholars 
at their host institution and, more generally, their participation in 
American academic and intellectual life, and indicate whether they expect 
such contacts and participation to foster future collaborative projects.

Applications must be addressed to the Italian Social Science Council by 
e-mail (cssroma at libero.it <mailto:cssroma at libero.it>) at the latest on 25 
October 2002. The originals of the applications and their annexes must be 
sent by regular mail.

Applicants will be informed of the decisions of the Selection Committee by 
15 December



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