AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities Research Students

PhD Study in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham for 2014-2015

The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five-year period to excellent research students in the arts and humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between the universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, De Montfort, Birmingham and Birmingham City, provides research candidates with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate, subject specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.

Under the aegis of the DTP, the Department of American and Canadian Studies (ACS) in the School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham is inviting applications from well-qualified students. ACS Nottingham, which was ranked as the strongest unit of its kind for Research Power in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, can offer supervision in the following areas:

• African-American Painting and Photography
• Antebellum Slavery and Politics
• Asian-American Literature
• Book History and Periodical Culture
• Canadian Literature, Film and Culture
• Civil Rights Movements
• Early American Literature and History
• First Nations Peoples
• Gay and Lesbian Literature and Theory
• Hispanic Migrant Communities
• History of Science
• Intellectual History from the Colonial Period to the Present Day • Labor History
• Modern Slavery
• Neo-Conservatism
• Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Penal Culture in the Twentieth Century
• Popular Music
• Post-1945 Foreign Policy
• Southern Literature and History
• Twenty-First Century Fiction
• Slave Narratives

Full details of our research are available at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/courses/american-and-canadian-studies/research-courses.aspx

The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 9 January 2014, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk.

For details of how to apply to SPLAS Nottingham, please contact the Postgraduate and Research Office in the first instance:

t: +44 (0)115 846 8316
e: pg-clas@nottingham.ac.uk
w: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/studywithus/postgraduate/index.aspx

If you would like to learn more about postgraduate study and funding opportunities at the University of Nottingham, you are warmly invited to attend an Open Day in the Department of American and Canadian Studies on Thursday 21st November in the Trent building, B46. For further information click here.