Andrew W. Mellon Research Studentship in American History

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

FACULTY OF HISTORY

Candidates are invited to apply for this four-year doctoral research studentship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Oxford. Conditions of the studentship include providing limited assistance to the research supervisor. Tenable from October 2006, the award will be made in one of the following areas of American history:

• the colonial period
• the era of the Revolution
• foreign relations and imperialism (with a preference for the nineteenth-century)
• politics and society during the early national and antebellum periods
• the Civil War
• religion in the nineteenth century
• the struggle for black equality from emancipation to the present
• African American religion in the era of Jim Crow
• British and European responses to the civil rights movement
• the history of the welfare state
• political history since the New Deal
• the development of political institutions and the federal system since the 1930s
• the history of education
• developments in the writing of American history

The Mellon Research Student will study for a DPhil under supervision. His or her activity as a research assistant will be limited to an average of one day a week over four years. The studentship will cover home/EU fees and carry a stipend of £11,000 per annum. Membership of a college will be provided, and the college fee covered.

Anyone wishing to be considered for the award should apply to the History doctoral programme (see link to further information below). The applicant should indicate on Section J (Funding Information) of the application form that s/he is applying for the Mellon studentship, and should include with the application a completed copy of a simple additional form:
http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/postgrad/forms/mellon_student_form.pdf

The deadline for applications is 20 January 2006. Home/EU applicants must also apply for a Research Council (AHRC or ESRC) award; overseas applicants must (unless ineligible) also enter the competitions for ORS and Clarendon Fund awards (Clarendon bursaries if awarded will bridge the difference between home and overseas fees).

For further information, including details of application procedures, and (under ‘funding opportunities’) links to information on the other awards for which the applicant must apply in parallel, see the History Faculty website: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/postgrad/pg_mellon_fund.htm