The Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Clarisse Godard Desmarest has been awarded the 2014 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th Century Scottish Studies. Dr Godard Desmarest is a lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the University of Amiens and will be working at IASH on her project on "Women and Architecture in 18th century Scotland". She will be at the Institute from August to November 2014.
Dr Endre Szécsényi (IASH Fellow in 2001 and 2008) has been awarded a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship in Aberdeen. He and his family will be moving to Scotland in August and Endre will be pursuing his research at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
Historian Dr Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) is the presenter of a three-part series on "The Stuarts" which is being shown on BBC2 Scotland on 30 January, 6 February and 13 February, and shortly afterwards on BBC2 elsewhere in the UK. In it Clare argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britain’s defining royal family. In the century to come, not only the political shape of modern Britain would emerge, but the embryonic ideas of a new British identity.
Professor Louise Chappell Reflects on her SPS-IASH Fellowship.
(Reproduced with kind permission from Bricolage December 2013 Issue 3)
Belated congratulations to Marianne Boruch on winning the Claremont Graduate University 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She was awarded the prize of $100,000 for her collection The Book of Hours, published by Copper Canyon Press.
Congratulations to Dr Arima Mishra (CWIT Fellow at IASH, 2009) on the publication of a book she has co-edited with Suhita Chopra Chatterjee on 'Multiple Voices and Stories: Narratives of Health and Illness'. The book is published by Orient BlackSwan and you can read more about it at http://orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=9&isbn=978-81-250-5379-8#
Applications are invited for the next round of IASH Visiting Research Fellowships (for Fellowships in the period June 2014 - September 2016) and for the David Hume Fellowship 2014-15. The deadline for applications for both schemes is 28 February 2014. Full details, including how to apply, can be found in the Fellowships section of the IASH website.
The Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies is being offered for the first time in 2014. The Fellowship, to be held at IASH, is for two-six months and the deadline for applications is 15 January 2014. Full details of the Fellowship and the application process can be found here.
Professor Dorothy Miell, Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science, issued the following announcement on 17 September 2013:
"Following a recent interview process I am pleased to announce that we have now appointed to the role of Director of IASH. With effect from 1st January 2014, for a three year term in the first instance, Professor Jo Shaw will be the Director of IASH. Professor Jolyon Mitchell will be taking up a role as Academic Director in IASH. Professor Mitchell will continue in the role of Acting Director until the end of December 2013."
Professor Karen Beckwith, Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, has been appointed as the next Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. She will be in Edinburgh for six months from January 2014 and will be a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
Professor Beckwith will be working on her research project: "What's New? Institutional Transformation and Women's Political Representation" and collaborating with colleagues in the School of Social and Political Science.