Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
http://dav.princeton.edu/
Cultures and Institutions in Motion
During the academic years 2008/09 and 2009/10 the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical
Studies will focus on the problem of cultures and institutions in motion. How have ideas,
institutions, structures, and artifacts moved across social and geographical space? How have they
intersected with their new environments? How have they been adapted, resituated, hybridized, and
transformed in processes of motion? The field of inquiry includes transnational history but is not
limited to it. Problems could include the diffusion of religious and cultural practices, the migration
of technologies and objects, the circulation of ideas, traditions, and aesthetic forms, the transfer of
policies and legal practices, the dynamics of traveling social movements, histories of reception,
appropriation, and encounter, and the creation of translocal networks and intermediaries.
As in the past, we hope to address this problem from a wide variety of periods and places, from
prehistory to the present and from all parts of the world. Scholars from all disciplines with an
interest in the topic as an historical phenomenon are invited to apply.
The Center will offer a limited number of research fellowships for one or two semesters, running
from September to January and from February to June, designed both for senior scholars and for
highly recommended younger scholars who have finished their dissertations by the application
deadlines. Fellows are expected to live in Princeton in order to take an active part in the
intellectual interchange with other members of the Seminar. Funds are limited, and candidates
are, therefore, strongly urged to apply to other grant-giving institutions as well as the Center, if
they wish to come for a full year.
Written inquiries should be addressed to the Manager, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical
Studies, Department of History, 136 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-
1017, U.S.A. The deadline for applications and letters of recommendation for fellowships for
2008/2009 is December 1, 2007. Scholars who would like to offer a paper to one of the weekly
Seminars are asked to send a brief description of their proposal and current curriculum vitae to
the Director.
Applications can be made online at
http://dav.princeton.edu/program/e14/fellowship_informati.html
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and
affirmative action regulations. For general information about applying to Princeton and how to
self-identify, see
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm.
Please note that we will not accept faxed applications.
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