Spring Fellowship Available for Study in the United States

The Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to announce the availability of a Fellowship for archaeologists employed by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI). The purpose of the Fellowship is to encourage and support scholarship of the highest quality on various aspects of archaeology, and to promote contact between North American archaeologists and DAI scholars.

In 2010 the AIA will offer one post-doctoral research fellowship for use during the academic year (spring or fall) at either The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) or The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Applications are now invited for the spring semester (January to April 2010). The Fellowship includes travel expenses for the Fellow, residence at university housing (at Brown University) or funds towards rental housing (at UCLA), library privileges, and an additional stipend towards living expenses. Residency will be for a maximum of three months, and no less than two months. While in residence, the Fellow will be expected to give at least one lecture for the host institution.

Applicants who are archaeologists must have a Ph.D. degree; architects must have their diploma. Both must demonstrate professional competence in archaeology in their applications.

Fellows will be selected on the basis of scholarly promise as indicated by the applicant’s academic record, prior publications, and the merits of the proposed research project. Preference will be given to applicants who are at an early stage of their professional careers. Candidates may indicate a preference for either Brown or UCLA, but the final decision will be made by the selection committee.

An application consists of the following materials:

a) completed online application form
b) a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications
c) two references

The deadline for applications for the 2010 spring semester is November 1, 2009. The AIA supports affirmative action and equal opportunity in the selection of Fellows. Please direct any questions about the Fellowship or the application process to Laurel Nilsen Sparks, Fellowship Coordinator, at lsparks@aia.bu.edu.

Current Recipient

Claudia Winterstein
The first recipient of the DAI/AIA Study in the U.S. Fellowship is Claudia Winterstein, a graduate engineer in architecture with main focus on building archaeology (Bauforschung). She will be in residence at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, from mid-January to mid-April 2009. Ms. Winterstein is a graduate assistant in the Division of Building Archaeology at the German Archaeological Institute’s head office in Berlin. Her doctoral dissertation project is “Şekerhane Köşkü in Selinus. Architectural Research on the Assumed Cenotaph for Emperor Trajan”, in which she researches this building’s original use and appearance on the basis of elaborate documentation of its current state and disentanglement of its different construction phases. Field work in Turkey has been accomplished recently, and interpretation of the documentation and collected data are being carried out now. Within the scope of the DAI/AIA Fellowship at the Cotsen Institute, Ms. Winterstein will conduct intensive library study to arrange the data collected during field work into a wider context. The documented architectural decoration and the figurative reliefs of Şekerhane Köşkü will be compared to published material, to make the building’s graphical reconstruction and its classification possible. Of particular interest is the historical and social background for the formation of an imperial monument in Selinus, and its legacy in that remote provincial area of the Roman Empire.