Request for Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century.
The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have completed all coursework required for the Ph.D. and must have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. Awards provide between ten and twelve months of research support.
The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universität Berlin, one of the nation's leading research universities. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA).

Deadline: December 1, 2006