The Davis Center offers a limited number of fellowships each year to scholars whose research falls under its chosen theme. The applicants must have their doctoral degrees in hand at the time of application, and typically the selected fellows hold positions at universities.

http://www.princeton.edu/dav/program/fellowship_information/apply_for_a_fellowship/

During the academic years 2010/11 and 2011/12 the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies will focus on problems of authority and legitimation.   We welcome proposals that explore the popular claims of authority.   How have regimes of power been legitimated, sustained, and identified with realms of justice, the sacred, or the natural?   How have cultures of consent and allegiance been created and maintained?   Under what historical conditions have those cultures fractured or dissolved?  

The field of inquiry includes the study of political culture but it is by no means limited to modern politics; inquiries into other forms of religious, domestic, and social authority, broadly defined, are encouraged across a wide variety of periods and places, from prehistory to the present and from all parts of the world.   Problems could include the rise of nationalist and civic cultures; the symbolic construction of the authority of kings, chieftains, texts, and law; the mobilization of religious and social movements; the legitimation of empires and regimes of labor; the naturalization of everyday forms of domestic power; as well as challenges to authority in the form of delegitimation, resistance, withdrawal, or revolution.  

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.   Early career scholars must have their doctoral degrees in hand at the time of the application.   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. To apply please link to:  http://jobs.princeton.edu, requisition # 1000414.    The deadline for receipt of applications and letters of recommendation for fellowships for 2011/2012 is December 1, 2010. Please note that we will not accept faxed applications. Applicants must apply online and submit a CV, cover letter, research proposal, abstract of proposal, and contact information for three references.

Written inquiries and requests should be addressed to: The Manager, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies,
Department of History,
129 Dickinson Hall,
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544-1017,
U.S.A.

 

The decisions of the Executive Committee of the Davis Center will be made in mid-January, and the applicants will be notified in late February.

The Davis Center offers a limited number of fellowships each year to scholars whose research falls under its chosen theme. The applicants must have their doctoral degrees in hand at the time of application, and typically the selected fellows hold positions at universities.

Fellowships at the Davis Center may run either for one semester, September-January or February-June; or for the full academic year from September-June. The Center's funds are limited and candidates should therefore apply for funds from their own universities and from other grant-giving institutions. Princeton faculty members are not eligible for Davis Center fellowships.

1. The Center is normally only able to offer support for one semester, but it hopes that most Fellows will find outside support for a second semester.
2. In calculating support for each Fellow, deductions are made for outside grants and sabbatical leave funds that a Fellow may bring with him/her. Within the limits of its resources, it is the intent of the Davis Center to provide a salary that will equal, but not exceed, the normal salary paid to a Fellow at his or her home university.
3. Those whose outside support is insufficient to compensate for the reduction in salary occasioned by taking leave from their home institution will receive additional funds from the Center to bring their salaries up to normal.
4. Support to Visiting Fellows from abroad, whose base salary scale is below the normal US level, will be adjusted upward to take this into account.
5. The Center will pay transportation costs for each Visiting Fellow without outside travel funds, and his or her spouse or domestic partner and for their child/children, with the following limitations: It will pay for the most economical means of transportation for Fellow, spouse, partner and children from and to his or her home institution. Travel funds for spouse, partner and children are restricted to persons accompanying a Visiting Fellow for a substantial period of time, by which we mean at least two months. These funds are not intended for dependents taking brief holidays in the United States.
6. The Center will pay for the shipment of books and papers which are necessary for the continuation of research, but not for the shipment of household goods. It should not normally be necessary to bring many books. The University Library possesses over five million books and others are quickly available on inter-library loan. Fellows from abroad are advised not to send research materials by sea, since they are often months late in arriving. Since Fellowship holders are expected to secure furnished lodgings during their period of residency, the Center will provide only up to $150 for shipment of household goods each way.
7. The Center will allow each Visiting Fellow, without outside research funds, research expenses of up to $2,000 per semester, or $4,000 for the year, payable on presentation of a statement of expenses. This includes expenses for copying, microfilming, typing and travel for research, and research assistance.
8. Each Davis Center office is equipped with a Dell Desktop computer with Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows Xp, Microsoft Office, plus a Hewlett Packard printer.

Fellows are given offices in a cluster of offices assigned to the Davis Center. They also have all the privileges of a member of the History Department. If a Fellow wishes it, the University Housing Department will try to arrange for the rental of furnished housing from the University.

Fellows are required to live in Princeton and expected to take an active part in the intellectual interchange with other members of the seminar. The Seminar meets on Friday mornings during the term and is normally attended by faculty from the History and other departments at Princeton, members of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, faculty from nearby universities, graduate students, and sometimes undergraduates.