The fellowship program was
conceived and initiated by Victoria de Grazia, Moore
Collegiate Professor of History and Director of the
Blinken European Institute, and Mark Mazower, Ira D.
Wallach Professor of History and Director of the Heyman Center
for the Humanities. Niarchos Fellows will carry out
their own research, liaise with other scholars and gain
teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate
levels.
Fellows will
be encouraged to establish contacts with other research
institutes across Europe, as well as with Paris-based
institutions, and to draw on the resources of CGC│E to
run workshops and seminars connected to their work.
Fellows will have access to all of Columbia?s resources,
local university and research connections, as well as to
the wider network of Columbia Global Centers, currently
located in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi,
New York, and Santiago. Fellows will be enabled to stay
in New York
for the fall semester of their second year at the main
Morningside campus of Columbia University,
where they will be supervised by faculty mentors as they
pursue their own research.
To be
eligible for consideration, applicants must be Greek
nationals with a Ph.D. from a European university and
must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements
between September 2009 and September 2012. The Ph.D.
must have been focused on the humanities or social
sciences, though it is not necessary for applicants to
have worked on topics connected with modern Greece.
Fluency in English is essential; demonstrable ability to
teach is desirable, as is competency in French.
The application will be
publicized shortly and Fellows will be announced in
early March. A selection committee made up of Columbia
faculty members will consider applicants on the basis of
submitted written work, curriculum vitae, references and
a written statement of research plans and purpose.
About Columbia Global
Centers│Europe
CGC│E is one of eight
centers founded across the world at the initiative of Columbia's
President Lee Bollinger to pursue the University's
mission to use its teaching and scholarship to
understand global developments. The most basic mission
of the Center in
Paris
is to connect research with teaching as it forms the
next generation of global
thinkers-practitioners-citizens. Using Paris/Europe as a
critical vantage point on the world, it is especially
dedicated to re-launching social inquiry on foundational
issues from unconventional perspectives and to
communicating the outcome of its work to the appropriate
audiences, students, scholars, practitioners, policy
makers through new media and new pedagogy. More
information can be found at
europe.globalcenters.columbia.edu/.
About
the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The Stavros Niarchos
Foundation is an international philanthropic
organization that makes grants in the areas of arts and
culture, education, health and medicine, and social
welfare. While prominent in its support of Greek-related
initiatives, the Foundation?s activities are worldwide
in scope. The Foundation funds institutions and projects
that exhibit strong leadership and sound management and
that have the potential to achieve a broad and lasting
impact. It encourages its grantees to collaborate, and
the Foundations works closely with them to monitor their
progress. In addition, the Foundation actively seeks to
support projects that facilitate the formation of
public-private partnerships as effective means for
serving public welfare. More information can be found at
www.SNF.org.