The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy (BA), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have announced the latest awards made as part of their joint Visiting Fellowships scheme for South Asia and the Middle East.
The Scheme aims to attract early career researchers in any branch of the humanities or social sciences to collaborate on research and develop ideas likely to lead to a joint research proposal in the near future. The successful researchers, in conjunction with a UK host academic, will now be spending between two to six months undertaking a clearly specified research project in the United Kingdom.
In total, twelve awards were made for the Middle East and thirteen awards for South Asia.
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The successful applicants are:
MIDDLE EAST
Dr E Abdollahzadeh Iran University of Science and Technology, IRAN
Hedging in graduate student theses: a cross-cultural corpus study
Dr G Saldanha, University of Birmingham
6/10/2009 to 11/10/2009
£7446
Dr S Z Aksoy Dokuz Eylul University, TURKEY
The normative aspects of Turkish foreign policy during the 2003 Iraq War and beyond: Turkey's order and justice perspectives toward Iraq
Professor G Nonneman, University of Exeter
10/1/2009 to 3/31/2010
£7500
Dr E Almagor University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Characterization through animals in Plutarch's Lives
Professor C B R Pelling, University of Oxford
6/1/2009 to 8/1/2009
£4302
Dr S Butbul Ben-Zvi Institute, ISRAEL
A study of the Arabic and Judeo-Arabic material in the Genizah collection of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Professor P Alexander, University of Manchester
9/1/2009 to 1/31/2010
£7300
Dr M Farah American University of Beirut, LEBANON
Understanding customer switching behaviour in financial services: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
Professor A Newman, University of Salford
8/15/2009 to 2/15/2010
£7360
Dr U J Golomb Israel Music Institute, ISRAEL
The fifth Evangelist, the impassioned rhetorician and the practical musician: Re-creating Bach's vocal music in the age of recordings
Professor N J Cook, University of Cambridge
10/1/2009 to 3/31/2010
£6690
Dr B Kirkici Baskent University, TURKEY
The processing of inflectional and derivational morphology in L1 and L2 Turkish
Professor H Clahsen, University of Essex
10/1/2009 to 4/1/2010
£6740
Dr A Kirmizi TURKEY
Grandvizier Ferid Pasha and the Court: Reconsidering Hamidian Autocracy (1876-1908)
Dr B C Fortna, School of Oriental and African Studies
5/1/2009 to 10/31/2009
£7478
Dr G Ofek Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
The New Woman's Testament: Biblical narratives, allusions and imagery in New Woman and Anti-Feminist fiction and journalism 1880-1915
Professor A Heilmann, University of Hull
7/15/2009 to 1/15/2010
£7476
Dr H Razinsky ISRAEL
Into the human- a basic human-measured concept
Professor R J Gaita, King's College London
9/1/2009 to 3/1/2010
£7466
Dr O P Saar Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL
Cataloguing magical manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah
Dr B Outhwaite, University of Cambridge
5/10/2009 to 7/10/2009
£5732
Dr N Skradol Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, ISRAEL
Aspects of textual representations of the "New Man" in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-1937
Professor C S Brandist, University of Sheffield
5/1/2009 to 10/30/2009
£7000
SOUTH ASIA
Dr J Abraham Jawaharlal Nehru University, INDIA
Houses and kin-groups: Transformations in matriliny in North Kerala
Professor C J Fuller, London School of Economics and Political Science
5/15/2009 to 8/15/2009
£5956
Dr F Z Arockiavictorial John Population Council, INDIA
Poverty, family size and modern contraceptive choices in India
Dr S Padmadas, University of Southampton
6/25/2009 to 9/20/2009
£7473
Dr S Aziz Lahore University of Management Sciences, PAKISTAN
Legal activism: the politics of the lawyers movement in Pakistan
Dr H Iqtidar, University of Cambridge
9/1/2009 to 12/30/2009
£5300
Dr A Balachandran Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, INDIA
Christ and the Pariah: Colonialism, religion and outcaste labour in South India, 1780-1830
Professor R Ahuja, School of Oriental and African Studies
5/1/2009 to 8/1/2009
£5148
Dr B Bhukya Osmania University, INDIA
Subordination of the sovereigns: colonialism and its Gond Rajas in Central India, 1853-1948
Dr S Tejani, School of Oriental and African Studies
5/2/2009 to 8/2/2009
£4739
Dr N Deb Jadavpur University, INDIA
Under eastern eyes: cultural and commercial traffic between the Port of Calcutta and the Australia-Pacific region, 1847-1947
Dr J McDonagh, King's College London
8/4/2009 to 10/20/2009
£7445
Dr B Kar Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, INDIA
The cultural and political economics of opium in British Assam, c 1800-1942
Professor W Ernst, Oxford Brookes University
5/1/2009 to 6/30/2009
£7142
Dr M N Khan University of Peshawar, PAKISTAN
The sacred and secular in Ancient Gandhara: investigating the unique stupa and settlement site of Aziz Dheri, Peshawar Valley, NWFP, Pakistan
Dr C A Petrie, University of Cambridge
4/1/2009 to 8/31/2009
£6770
Dr P Kumar SRTM University, INDIA
Kolam women, Kothi men: negotiating kinship, identity and sexuality in Western India
Professor C J Fuller, London School of Economics and Political Science
5/10/2009 to 9/10/2009
£7500
Dr W A Liyanage University of Peradeniya, SRI LANKA
Buddhism, narrative and translation: Sinhala writing between aesthetics and ethnography
Professor J R Spencer, University of Edinburgh
9/15/2009 to 12/15/2009
£7500
Mr S Mukherjee Tritiyo Sutra Performance Company, INDIA
Man of the Heart Project: an academic-creative collaboration
Dr S Chatterjee, Loughborough University
5/15/2009 to 7/31/2009
£5707
Dr S Sinha Roy Jadavpur University, INDIA
Trade regimes and India's exports
Professor V N Balasubramanyam, University of Lancaster
7/13/2009 to 9/12/2009
£3200
Dr N Uddin University of Chittagong, BANGLADESH
Colonial (re)presentation of colonial people: a case study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh
Dr B Chakma, University of Hull
6/15/2009 to 9/14/2009
£6838
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