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Working at CRASSH gave me a research community which staved off feelings of isolation and broadened my sense of what the humanities are and what they can do, which has been enriching on a personal and intellectual level.
– Emily Kate Price

Applications are closed


Generously funded by a donor, the Early Career Fellowship scheme at CRASSH allows Cambridge University Teaching Officers and College Teaching Officers to apply for an additional term of research leave. The aim is to help early career scholars at Cambridge to develop their research by releasing them from teaching, examining and administration for a term. Early Career Fellows join the CRASSH community for that term, which provides them with a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment in which to advance a research project or to begin a new one.

Up to five fellows are normally appointed each year. The scheme is also open to UTOs and CTOs working in the department of Geography (supported by the School of Physical Sciences).

A Fellowship may be held in either Michaelmas Term or Lent Term. Applications are now invited for two cohorts: a) MT 2024 or LT 2025, and b) MT 2025 or LT 2026. From next year onwards, applications for a Fellowship will be received at least 20 months in advance. Thus, January 2025 will be the deadline for applications for a Fellowship to be taken up in MT 2026 or LT 2027.

Eligibility

For Fellowships to be taken up in the 2024-2025 academic year, all UTOs and CTOs who have been in post for fewer than five years at the date of application are eligible, provided that they have obtained prior permission from their Faculty and/or College. For Fellowships to be taken up in 2025-2026, and for future selection rounds, applicants must have been in post for fewer than four years at the date of application.

Provision

The value of the award is set at £2,500 for the term. This amount will be transferred to the Fellow’s Faculty or College to enable replacement teaching to be bought in. It may also be used to cover the cost of administrative tasks or examining. If the Fellow’s teaching is split between a Faculty and a College, it will be the responsibility of the Faculty to negotiate the amount passed on to the college (up to a maximum of half the total). A Head of Institution may contact the Director of CRASSH in advance of the application deadline to discuss the amount set for teaching buyout if special circumstances pertain.

Terms and Conditions

You must obtain permission from your Faculty and/or College before applying, and agree on a suitable term in which to take up your Fellowship, if your application is successful. It is the responsibility of your Faculty and/or College to make appropriate arrangements to cover your teaching, examining, and administrative duties during your Fellowship.

UTOs must apply for leave and the term will not be reckoned as a term of service for the purposes of calculating sabbatical leave due.

This is a residential fellowship and successful applicants are expected to spend their period of research leave in Cambridge.

CRASSH holds a weekly interdisciplinary seminar at which Early Career Fellows are able to interact with Visiting Fellows and other researchers based at CRASSH. Early Career Fellows are expected to participate in these seminars each week and to lead one during their time at CRASSH. Fellows are also very welcome to take part in other events hosted by CRASSH if they choose to do so.

Application

Applications are closed

The following documents will be required:

  • a CV, including a list of publications
  • a statement of support from the relevant Head of Faculty or College. This should confirm that they support the application and its timing
  • a research proposal of 800-1000 words, outlining the project the applicant plans to work on during their Fellowship
  • a sample of written work (a single chapter or article, for example, which may or may not have been published already)

Applicants should also request a referee to submit a letter of recommendation to the application system by the same deadline. They should therefore initiate an application and register the details of a referee at least two weeks before 15 January, as referees will be sent an automated prompt to upload a confidential reference to the system.

Selection

Members of the Selection Committee will be drawn from a range of disciplines and subjects across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at Cambridge. Applicants will be evaluated on their academic record, the reference submitted, and their research proposal. Particular regard will be given to the potential evident in the research proposal for innovative methods and modes of enquiry (these may include, but are not limited to, an interdisciplinary approach).

Please email fellowships@crassh.cam.ac.uk if you have any enquiries about the scheme or the application process.

Events archive

Early Career Fellow seminars are now part of Fellows events.

2021 – 2022

Early Career Fellows work-in-progress seminars
Public Wealth in the Roman World
3 Nov 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

Cambridge Early Career fellow Dr John Weisweiler presents his work in progress.

Hermeneutic Competition: what it is and what can it explain?
24 Nov 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

Cambridge Early Career Fellow Dr Jessie Munton presents her work in progress.

POSTPONED Sticky Listening: the cultural lives of earworms
16 Feb 2022 12:30 - 14:00, Online

Cambridge Early Career Fellow Dr Edward Allen presents his work in progress.

Sticky listening: the cultural lives of earworms
9 Mar 2022 12:30 - 14:00, Online

Cambridge Early Career Fellow Dr Edward Allen presents his work in progress.

Neo-Luddism in the digital age: registers, quitters, destroyers and visionaries against contemporary technologies
4 May 2022 12:30 - 14:00, Online/CRASSH Meeting Room

Cambridge Early Career Fellow Dr Ella McPherson  presents her work in progress.

2020 – 2021

Early Career Fellows work-in-progress seminars
Maritime Household Economies in Pre-Colonial West Africa
21 Oct 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online Event

Early Career Fellow Dr Bronwen Everill presents her work in progress.

Thinking Feeling: Fortune and Misfortune in Medieval Song
4 Nov 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online Event

Early Career Fellow Dr Emily Kate Price presents her work in progress.

POSTPONED Underwriting the Market: A Literary Genealogy of Modern Economic Thought
25 Nov 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online event

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dr Dominic Walker presents his work in progress.

Codification and Constitutionalism in Enlightenment Naples
27 Jan 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

CRASSH Early Career Fellow Dr Felix Waldmann presents his work in progress.

Saying Race in Fifth Republic France
3 Feb 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online Event

Early Career Fellow Dr Arthur Asseraf presents his work in progress.

POSTPONED Underwriting the Market: A Literary Genealogy of Modern Economic Thought
10 Mar 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow Dr Dominic Walker presents his work in progress.

Engineering Identities as Students and Scientists at the Sino-French Institute of Lyon, 1921-31
12 May 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

Cambridge Early Career Fellow Dr Mary Augusta Brazelton presents her work in progress.

Emotional Labour and the Criminal Bar – Holding Up or Giving Up?
19 May 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

Early Career Fellow Dr Elaine Freer presents her work in progress.

Underwriting the Market: A Literary Genealogy of Modern Economic Thought
26 May 2021 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Online

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow Dr Dominic Walker presents his work in progress.

2019 – 2020

Early Career Fellows work-in-progress seminars
Rewriting Fourteenth-Century English Literary History
14 Oct 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

 Early Career Fellow Dr Philip Knox presents his work in progress.

Populism on the Periphery: Post-colonialism, Liberalism and History in Post-1989 Poland
28 Oct 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

CRASSH Early Career Fellow Dr Stanley Bill presents his work in progress.

Consent and the Background Normative Assumptions about Force in the International Legal Order
11 Nov 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

Early Career Fellow Dr Federica Paddeu presents her work in progress.

Amerindian Iberia
27 Jan 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

Early Career Fellow Dr Caroline Egan presents her work in progress.

Micrologies: Writing in the Margins of Philosophy
3 Feb 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

Early Career Fellow Dr Helen Thaventhiran presents her work in progress.

CANCELLED Beyond Dystopia: Reclaiming the Future in Crisis and Post-Crisis Cinema from Spain
2 Mar 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

Early Career Fellow Dr Bryan Cameron presents his work in progress.

CANCELLED: Emotional Labour and the Criminal Bar – Holding Up or Giving Up?
27 Apr 2020 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

Early Career Fellow Dr Elaine Freer presents her work in progress.

2018 – 2019

Early Career Fellows work-in-progress seminars
A Literature for All Its Citizens: Aesthetics of Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
8 Oct 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow Dr Chana Morgenstern presents her work in progress.

Interpreting the Minor Masterpieces of Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
12 Nov 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow Dr Martin Worthington presents his work in progress.

(Un)making a Global Commons: the Ocean and the Political Economy of International Law
21 Jan 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Early Career Fellow Dr Surabhi Ranganathan presents her work in progress.

Populism and Economics in the Thought of Karl Marx
4 Feb 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Early Career Fellow Dr Christopher Meckstroth presents his work in progress.

Womanly chit-chat? Women’s pages in U.S. Newspapers, 1870-1930
25 Feb 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Early Career Fellow Dr Julia Guarneri presents her work in progress.

Image, Symbol and Metaphor in International Law
29 Apr 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Early Career Fellow Dr Kate Miles presents her work in progress.

The May Fourth Movement of 1919
28 May 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Early Career Fellow Dr Rachel Leow presents her work in progress.

Female Labour before 1851
3 Jun 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Early Career Fellow Dr Amy Erickson presents her work in progress.

2017 – 2018

Early Career Fellows work-in-progress seminars
The Strength of Social Ties and Cooperation
9 Oct 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Dr Edoardo Gallo presents his work in progress.

Circulations of Law: Trace, Translation, Trajectory
16 Oct 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Dr Iza Hussin presents her work in progress.

War Beyond the Human
30 Oct 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Dr Lauren Wilcox presents her work in progress.

Social Deference and British Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
13 Nov 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Samuel James presents his work in progress.

Election Law and the Crisis of Mass Democracy
22 Jan 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Jacob Eisler  presents his work in progress.

The Poetry of Regret 1830-1913
29 Jan 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Dr Stacey McDowell presents her work in progress.

The Politics in Dramaturgy: World Factory and WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE
12 Feb 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Zoe Svendsen presents her work in progress.

The Public Policy of International Law
26 Feb 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Rumiana Yotova presents her work in progress.

CANCELLED: Nietzsche on Slavery and What it Means to be Human
5 Mar 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Crausaz Wordsworth Fellow Martin Ruehl presents his work in progress.

A Paradoxical Creativity: Knowledge and Manuscript Culture in the Twelfth Century Renaissance
30 Apr 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

 Early Career Fellow Julie Barrau presents her work in progress.

Populism, Technocracy and the Crisis of Party Democracy’
9 May 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Christopher Bickerton presents his work in progress.

Medieval Practices of Weeping: Penitential Function of Late Medieval Italian Poetry
14 May 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

CRASSH/British School at Rome Fellow Helena Phillips-Robins presents her work in progress.

The Impact of Empire: challenges and opportunities in Roman Italy, 1st to 4th c. CE
4 Jun 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Alessandro Launaro presents his work in progress.

2016 – 2017

Early Career Fellows work-in-progress seminars
Parliament and Human Rights
10 Oct 2016 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow Asif Hameed presents his work in progress.

Religious writing, pre-modernity, and the temporality of action
17 Oct 2016 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

A work in progress seminar by Early Career Fellow Sarah Haggarty.

The Antiquities Trade in 19th-century Greece
31 Oct 2016 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow Yannis Galanakis presents his work in progress.

The Ottoman Translation Movement: Language and Legitimacy in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
14 Nov 2016 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow Dr Helen Pfeifer presents her work in progress.

Hierarchy as Hope
28 Nov 2016 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Dr Anastasia Piliavsky presents her work in progress.

Freedom of Expression and the Future of European Data Protection
23 Jan 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow  David Erdos presents his work in progress.

Understanding Empire in the Nineteenth Century
30 Jan 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow  Nicholas Guyatt presents his work in progress.

The Danube in Late Antiquity
20 Feb 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room

Early Career Fellow Susanne Hakenbeck presents her work in progress.

The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
24 Apr 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Dr Jody Joy presents his work in progress.

Varieties of Russian ‘nature writing’
8 May 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Part of the CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series. 
Early Career Fellow Alyson Tapp presents her work in progress.

Status-enhancing Multilateralism: France in Africa since 1994
22 May 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Early Career Fellow Stefano Recchia presents his work in progress.

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