From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #192 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Friday, December 4 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 192 anenews John Chadwick obit. anenews Cyprus Fellowship anenews SSRC Dissertation Workshop on States & Societies in the Middle East ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:00:14 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews John Chadwick obit. In the December 2 1998 issue of The Times there is an obituary of John Chadwick: "John Chadwick, FBA, Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge University, 1969-84, died on November 24 aged 78. He was born on May 21, 1920. The distinguished philologist John Chadwick gained worldwide renown in the early 1950s for his collaboration with the late Michael Ventris in the decipherment of the Linear B script of Bronze Age Greece..." but you'll have to register (free) to get access, via: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk then choose the obit. section for the December 2 1998 issue. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:02:18 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Cyprus Fellowship Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Julie Hansen The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (Nicosia) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Deadline: February 15, 1999 The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1): For any field of humanistic research having to do with Cyprus; maximum stipend $30,000 (six-twelve month tenure). Open to any U.S. citizen or alien resident in the U.S. for the last three years and holding a Ph.D. degree as of January 1, 1999. Preference is given to applicants who have not held a major Fellowship in the past three years. Information and applications for this award may be obtained from the American Schools of Oriental Research, 656 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-6570 Julie Hansen, Chair Department of Archaeology Boston University 675 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3415 fax (617) 353-6800 e-mail jmh@bu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 18:22:19 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews SSRC Dissertation Workshop on States & Societies in the Middle East Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SSRC Dissertation Workshop on States & Societies in the Middle East The Social Science Research Council Program on the Near and Middle East invites applications for a dissertation workshop to be held in summer 1999. Graduate students who are currently writing dissertations in any discipline in the social sciences on topics concerning the interaction of states and societies are welcome to apply. The workshop is open with respect to particular thematic concerns or methodological approaches. However, the Council particularly welcomes applications from students using institutional, political economy, and comparative methods, broadly defined. Cross-regional projects that include but are not limited to Middle East cases are also eligible. The workshop will be held in the Middle East in July 1999, and will include approximately 12- 14 student participants and four faculty who will meet over the course of a week for intensive and critical discussion of students' dissertation projects. To apply for the workshop, students must submit the following: (1) a copy of their dissertation proposal (2) proof that the proposal has been approved by the students' department (3) 2 letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the student's principal advisor (4) a 5-page double-spaced summary of the dissertation project. The summary must define what the core theoretical concerns of the project are and what its contribution will be; what methods are being applied and their relevance the project's theoretical concerns; which cases have been selected and why; and what literatures the thesis draws on and/or challenges. The summary should also indicate what progress has been made on the thesis at the time of application. To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. citizens, currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program, and be at the stage of writing the dissertation by the time of the deadline for applications. The deadline for receipt of applications at the SSRC is Monday, March 15, 1999. Decisions will be announced by May 1999. Please address all questions and correspondence, including applications, to: Near and Middle East Program Social Science Research Council 810 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 Tel: (212) 377-2700 Fax: (212) 377-2727 David Szanton ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1998 #192 ******************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html