Call for Applications 2024–2025
Objective
The Institute for Human Sciences invites applications for the Jerzy Giedroyc Junior Visiting Fellowships. In recognition of Giedroyc’s legacy as founding editor of Kultura, and his contributions to promoting wider understanding of the interconnected history and intellectual traditions of the lands of modern-day Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine, these fellowships are designated for scholars working on projects related to:
- Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Belarusian, and Polish-Lithuanian relations, and related questions of history, politics, and literature
OR
- The legacy of Giedroyc particularly, and/or the journal and publishing house Kultura
The Jerzy Giedroyc Junior Visiting Fellowships are open to all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Conditions
The Junior Visiting Fellowship lasts four months and can be spent at the IWM in Vienna from September 2024 to June 2025. Postdoctoral candidates––i.e., those who have defended their PhD by the date of the fellowship application deadline––will receive a stipend of EUR 3,000 per month; candidates currently pursuing their doctoral degree will receive a stipend of EUR 2,500 per month to cover accommodation, living expenses, travel, health insurance and any incidental costs related to their stay in Vienna.
In addition, the IWM provides visiting fellows with office space including access to the internet, administrative and research facilities as well as other services free of charge. The fellows will join the international, multidisciplinary scholarly community and participate in the activities of the IWM. Generally, fellowships start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month.
Senior Visiting Fellowships in this program are granted by invitation only.
Eligibility
Candidates for the Jerzy Giedroyc Junior Visiting Fellowship must be enrolled in a doctoral program in the humanities or social sciences or have obtained a PhD in the same fields in the past four years.
Application
Applications must be submitted through the IWM's online application form; we will be unable to consider applications sent via email.
Application materials consist of the following:
- a brief letter of motivation that addresses how the project would benefit from time at the IWM, the connection to the IWM’s mission and research, and concrete research/writing goals during the fellowship
- a project description (max. 550 characters)
- a project proposal (max. 7,500 characters incl. spaces) that a) contains a description of the project’s objectives; b) situates the project within existing scholarship; c) describes the project's methodology; d) outlines the intended work plan
- a curriculum vitae including a list of publications
- two letters of recommendation from scholars familiar with the applicant’s academic work (has to be submitted by the applicant together with the other application materials)
All application materials should be in English.
Important! Attached documents must be combined into a single PDF, as the online submission form only allows for one attachment. File names of attachments must use Latin characters.
Applications are now closed. The next call is planned to be published in winter 2024.
Selection
The finalists will be selected by a jury of experts. Applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision in the spring semester of 2024. The jury is not required to publicly justify its decisions, nor to provide applicants individual feedback on their applications.
Kasper Nowak
Fellowship Program Coordinator
fellowships@iwm.at
Jerzy Giedroyc (1906–2000) was a Polish publisher and writer. He founded the Paris-based Instytut Literacki and its journal Kultura. Under Giedroyc, Kultura was a cornerstone of Polish intellectual life in the postwar period. Particularly influential was Kultura’s editorial policy of recognizing Poland’s postwar eastern border and promoting the independence of Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine.