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Graduate School of North American Studies:
Doctoral/Postdoctoral Scholarships


Course(s) Offered: Humanities, Social sciences
Course Level: Graduate (phd, postdoc)
Provider: High German Research Foundation
Country to Study in: Germany, USA, Canada

Scholarship Description
The Graduate School of North American Studies has been funded past times the High German Research Foundation since 2006. The School's plan is dedicated to a comprehensive together with interdisciplinary analysis of the social, economical together with cultural changes facing North America at the start of the 21st century.

Special attending is given to the crisis-like transformation running through American gild today, apparent inwards both domestic together with unusual policy together with economical development, every bit good every bit inwards the media, the arts, culture, together with religion. The report plan has been organized into ix interdisciplinary inquiry areas.

The Graduate School provides scholarships for x admitted doctoral students per twelvemonth together with for ii postdoctoral researchers every other year. The stipends are granted on a competitive footing past times the alternative commission.

Eligibility (Admission requirements)
The formal requirement for an application is a academy grade (M.A., High German Diploma, or the equivalent, Doctorate) with inwards a higher house average marks inwards either North American Studies or ane of the disciplines represented at the John F. Kennedy Institute (Cultural Studies, Literature, Political Science, History, Sociology, together with Economics) or closely related academic programs. The dependent champaign of the intended dissertation must correspond to the dependent champaign of the M.A.-degree, or at to the lowest degree hold out closely related to it. Further data tin hold out obtained at the Graduate School of North American Studies (link to it below).

Applicants for postdoctoral stipends must accept completed a doctorate inwards ane of the fields listed above, with inwards a higher house average grade.

Since all instruction is inwards English, enrollment inwards the plan requires English linguistic communication language proficiency at an advanced level.

The Graduate School is highly interested inwards international representation together with encourages international doctoral together with postdoctoral candidates to apply. In monastic enjoin to ensure an equal remainder betwixt manlike someone together with woman someone students, applications past times women are peculiarly encouraged.

Eligible groups
International scholars from all nationalities

Participating Institutions
All approved American/Canadian inquiry institutes, archives together with libraries.

In addition, institutes of Freie Universität, institutes of other universities together with non-university institutes too participate. For a consummate listing of these, click here.

Fields of study
The Graduate School provides closely supervised doctoral together with postdoctoral instruction every bit good every bit fantabulous theoretical together with methodological inquiry preparation inside the fields of Cultural together with Literary Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, together with Economics, spell at the same fourth dimension promoting interdisciplinary approaches together with perspectives. The linguistic communication of instruction is English.

Number of awards
Ten (10) doctoral together with ii (2) postdoctoral awards are granted each year

Sponsorship duration
Doctoral scholarships are awarded for a maximum of iii years. Continued funding past times the foremost abide by twelvemonth is based upon adept progress towards completion of the doctoral degree. Postdoctoral scholarships are awarded for ii years.

Scholarship benefits
Doctoral scholarships amount to ca. 1,500 € per month, postdoctoral stipends amount to 2,000 € per month. Travel grants are available.

Students with exterior funding from external organizations, e.g. foundations, are welcome to use inwards the plan if they fulfil the admission requirements.

The Graduate School aims at preparing highly qualified doctoral together with postdoctoral researchers for scholarly careers inwards universities, inquiry institutions together with other science-related organizations.

Method of Application
Interested applicants must download together with consummate the application grade for doctoral and/or postdoctoral candidates available on the admissions page of the official spider web site (see link below). Please transportation your application together with the requested documents until Jan 31, 2014 (Postmark) to:

Freie Universität Berlin
Graduate School of North American Studies
Dr. Katja Mertin, Managing Director
Lansstrasse 5-9
14195 Berlin, Germany

All requested documents must too hold out submitted alongside.

DEADLINES:
The report plan entry application deadline is January 31 each year

PLEASE NOTE:
Applications for the doctoral / postdoctoral plan are too possible if yous accept your ain scholarship/funding. Please brand a Federal Reserve annotation on the application canvas together with furnish roughly confirmation.

Attention: In 2014, GSNAS volition grant exclusively doctoral stipends. Postdoctoral Scholarships volition hold out advertized in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than for 2015.

Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2014
Open to International students: Yes

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