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The Center for Research in Arts, Social Societies and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge and the Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) at the University of Southern California / Huntington Library invite applications for Visiting Fellowships in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture, to be held between January 2014 and September 2015. These fellowships are part of the collaborative programme Seeing Things: Early Modern Visual and Material Culture  CRASSH / EMSI will appoint up to four fellows over the period (two fellows for twelve months each or 4 fellows for six months each). Fellows will spend half of their fellowship at CRASSH and half at the Huntington Library, San Marino.

Applications due 12pm 16 May 2013.
Go to the application portal for full description of fellowships and application instructions.

EMSI is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013-2014 EMSI Fellowship Awards:

Faculty Fellowship
Lori Meeks, Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Cult of the Blood Bowl Sutra: Gender and Ideology in Early Modern Japan

Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships
Nicholas Gliserman, History
Landscapes of War: A study of Northeast America, 1688-1713
Keith Pluymers, History
Colonizing land and landscapes in the early modern English Atlantic, c.1575- c.1640

Ph.D. Summer Fellowships
Amanda Weldy Boyd, English
His Work, My Words: Performance Anxiety and the Burden of Originiality for the Theatrical Biographer/Historian (1620-1820)
Ellen Dooley, Art History
Painting Salvation: Affluence, Art, and Plague in Golden Age Seville

Inside the Renaissance: Visible Empire from Early Modern Studies Institute on Vimeo.

View calendar of all 2012-2013 EMSI events

The History of Women
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (www.usc.edu/icw) and the History Department of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences seeks applications from recent PhDs whose work explores the history of women, field and time period open, for a new two-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation postdoctoral teaching fellow appointment beginning in the fall of 2013.
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