Deadline: September 15, 2025

The call is addressed to advanced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers (up to a maximum of 4 years after the doctorate) respectively experienced researchers (postdoctoral researchers from 4 years after the doctorate, habilitated researchers, professors and emeriti). A prerequisite for an application is a research project related to notions and discourses of force/power in the arts and/or the history of culture and science.

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Deadline: September 10, 2025

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University extends an invitation to PhDs (within 7 years of degree completion) to express their interest in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA 2025) Individual Fellowship. We welcome expressions of interest from potential applicants with expertise in Art History, History, Cultural Memory, Visual and Material Cultures, Museum Studies, with a significant focus on memory and memory-making; hidden cultural memory; traumatic memory; museums/exhibitions, cultural heritage and recreating/inventing memory or cognate fields.

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Deadline: July 16, 2025

With expertise in interdisciplinary research that integrates the arts, experience conducting research and collaborating with scholars from different professional backgrounds, the Curator for Research serves as an excellent facilitator, able to negotiate team relationships across departments and disciplines. Holding a PhD or equivalent, the Curator brings a solid foundation in curatorial practice, including collection development. The curator demonstrates strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and contribute to numerous simultaneous projects.

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Deadline: June 1, 2025

The Americas Vault Associate will aid the Journal in developing a curated guide to a historiographical issue based on articles from the back issues of the journal. During the course of an academic year, The Americas Vault Associate will write an original essay that engages a thematic cluster of articles and research notes published over the years in The Americas journal along with relevant supplemental online digital primary sources. The choice of theme will be left to the selected Associate.  Upon selection, the successful candidate will be assigned a mentor from the Editorial Board who will assist and supervise the project.  The finished essay will be published on the journal website and be available to college professors and students to aid in the teaching of Latin American history.  The competition in previous years has been particularly strong. Current Associates are Charlotte Eaton of the London School of Economics and Josh Anthony of Rutgers University.

The Vault Associate will be invited to join the Editorial Board for a period of an academic year, will be given an online subscription to the journal, and receive a $1000 stipend.

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Deadline: unspecified

Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University is happy to announce that we are offering packages for Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows. This would be perfect for those who wish to do research in Thailand and Bangkok directly. It would be particularly suitable for those who study Buddhism, Thai and Southeast Asian history and politics and international studies, as well as anthropologists and sociologists. The college is situated in Tha Prachan campus, in the heart of the old city of Bangkok and near to Wat Mahathat and other important sites. Our college has a growing community of scholarship, having recently held successful conferences on Buddhist amulets, Jataka Tales and, soon to be, on Ghosts in Thailand.

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Deadline: May 30, 2025

This position is intended for a doctoral student enrolled at any university worldwide who is in the advanced stage of their dissertation. In addition to clarifying how residence in Florence benefits their doctoral research, candidates should include in their cover letter a statement of how their work advances the goals of the research group. Candidates should also seek the approval of their doctoral advisor. Candidates are expected to review the Lise Meitner Group’s research agenda as well as the broader structure of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz where the group is located. We welcome applications from doctoral students in every field within architecture, design, arts and humanities with focus on the research group’s themes and methodological approaches, and preference given to projects spanning traditional disciplinary boundaries. The selection committee aims to assess the ability of candidates to contribute to the collaborative intellectual life of the research group. Candidates must be conversant in English at an appropriate level for scientific exchange.

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Deadline: June 1, 2025

Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.

Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to 1 June of the submission year. The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.

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