SAE-CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship

 

The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) and the Council for European Studies (CES) invite eligible graduate students with a focus on European Anthropology to apply for the 2024 Anthropology of Europe Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. The SAE is the section of the American Anthropological Association that promotes the anthropological study of European societies and culture, encouraging connections between scholars working in Europe. Each fellowship includes a $5,000 stipend to fund two months’ research in Europe, and travel support as well as a registration fee waiver for attending and presenting at the International Conference of Europeanists in 2025.* 

Eligibility

The Anthropology of Europe Pre-Dissertation Fellowship is intended to fund fellows’ first research project in Europe. Applicants must:

Barring exceptional circumstances, students who have already received comparable support for pre-dissertation research will not be considered eligible. 

Application Guidelines

Interested applicants are asked to

  • submit the online application form which includes a 2,500-word narrative on the nature and purpose of your research project. 
  • request three (3) faculty recommenders submit a copy of their recommendations via our online submission link. 
  • If proof of language competency is required in order to undertake your proposed research, you will also have to see to it that a faculty member familiar with your language skills completes the Language Competency form, also available on our website. 

Please note that we are no longer accepting applications.

Congratulations to the Winner of the 2024 SAE-CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship Phoebe Grace Whiteside for her dissertation “Humanitarian Forensics and the Politics of Kinship at Ireland’s Former Mother and Baby Home”