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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (2024-2025) FOR YUGOSLAVIAN TESTIMONIES

Offline event
https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/2024/04/01/cfa_yugoslavia/

Thematic focus

  • Local History
  • Other Approaches
  • Other Forms of History Education
  • Transnational and International Cooperations
  • Resources and Learning Materials for History Education
  • Innovative Approaches
  • Multi-Perspectivity in History Teaching
  • Digital Media in History Education

Language

English, Serbian

Country

Serbia

Address

Date

Deadline: 1 June 2024

Contact

fortunoff.archive@yale.edu

Description

The Fortunoff Video Archive will offer a fellowship to a visiting postdoctoral scholar fluent in Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian language, with expertise in the history of Yugoslavia, Sephardic Jewish history, and a particular focus on the 20th Century history of Jews in the former Yugoslavian lands during the Holocaust. The fellowship is offered for between six months and one academic year – depending on experience, career position, and needs. For instance, a more senior scholar may require a six-month position to complement a sabbatical. Scholars and researchers from around the world are invited to apply. Preference will be given to applicants from outside the Yale community. This fellowship encourages applications from scholars in history and other fields in the humanities and social sciences who can demonstrate the value of research in the collection to their ongoing work. The fellowship start date is negotiable, but applicants must have their Ph.D. in hand prior to application. Fellows will be asked to produce two critical editions of Yugoslavian testimonies from the Fortunoff Archive collection, working closely with the Director of the Fortunoff Archive, the Archive’s Head of Academic Programs, and staff at Terraforming. A critical edition consists of an annotated transcript of the testimony in the original language and a translation in English. The annotations are conceived as a means to provide important historical and contextual information to illuminate the complexities of the unedited narrative. The critical edition will include a short essay describing the significance of this particular testimony to the fellow’s current research effort. During the fellowship, the fellow will be asked to present their research as a “work in progress” to the Yale community. This fellowship is being offered as part of a grant from the Claims Conference titled “Unlocking Survivor Testimony...".

Organiser

Terraforming