Balzan-Skinner Fellowship Competition

The competition for the fourth Balzan-Skinner Fellowship 2012-2013 is now closed. Further information will be posted here in due course.

Further particulars

The Faculty of History has received funding for five years from the International Balzan Prize  Foundation to establish an annual Lecture in modern intellectual history since c. 1500. The Balzan-Skinner scholar will hold a Visiting Fellowship at the University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) for one term or semester during the 2012-2013 academic year. He/she will be required to be resident in Cambridge for this period (up to a maximum of twelve weeks), during which time he/she will receive an accommodation grant from CRASSH of £2,000 and will be allocated working space. The scholar will not be employed by the University of  Cambridge.

The fourth Balzan-Skinner Lecture in modern intellectual history since c. 1500 will be delivered at the close of the scholar’s period of residence in Cambridge, and will be accompanied by a one-day colloquium (to be held by the close of June 2013), which he/she will organise in conjunction with a member of the Appointments Committee. Scholars working in related fields will be invited to comment formally on the theme of the Lecture, whilst the Balzan-Skinner scholar will be invited to submit suitable names of commentators to the Appointments Committee. 
 
The University of Cambridge will make available a sum of up to £18,000 to reimburse the scholar’s existing employer for the cost of release from normal academic duties to complete a piece of research on which the fourth Balzan-Skinner Lecture will be based. The Lecture will be published, subject to the normal external refereeing process, in a suitably extended and annotated form in The Historical Journal.  
 
Information on the Balzan Skinner Fellowships awarded during the first three years can be found here.  

Eligibility

Scholars holding posts (irrespective of the source of funding) in institutions of higher education or research who are ideally in the early stages of their careers (normally at a stage no further than ten years beyond the award of the PhD degree) are eligible to apply.

Application procedures

Applications should consist of the following:

  • A curriculum vitae (providing details of educational qualifications and publications, including work in progress and the names of three academic referees)
  • An employment coversheet (CHRIS/6 form). This can be downloaded from the HR Division’s web page: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/
  • A short sample of published work (up to about 10,000 words)
  • A brief (maximum 1,000 words) statement outlining a preliminary proposal for the Balzan-Skinner Lecture.

Applicants should ensure that their application documentation and reports from three referees reach the Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9EF by 31 October 2011 (email address: jobs@hist.cam.ac.uk). It is the responsibility of each candidate to ensure that his/ her references reach the Secretary by the same date. 
 
It is envisaged that the Appointments Committee will meet in November.
 
The Appointments Committee will comprise the Chairman of the Faculty of History, the Director of CRASSH, an Editor of The Historical Journal, and three representatives of the Faculty’s Political Thought and Intellectual History Subject Group.
 
 
 

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