Cambridge/Ashmolean Museum/AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award

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best wishes
Rosalind Blakesley


AHRC FUNDED PHD RESEARCH PROJECT:

"MODERNIZATION, CULTURAL EXCHANGES AND INNOVATION IN RUSSIAN PRINT
CULTURE: ST PETERSBURG IN THE TALBOT COLLECTION"

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN COLLABORATION
WITH THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, OXFORD

Applications are invited for a doctoral studentship, awarded by the
Oxford University Museums AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, on
the subject of modernization, cultural exchanges and innovation in
19th-century Russian print culture. The award will be held in the
Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge, and will be
supervised jointly by Dr Rosalind Blakesley and Dr Wendy Pullan
(University of Cambridge) and Dr Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford). The award holder will commence a fully-funded PhD at the
University of Cambridge in October 2016.

The PhD will use an interdisciplinary approach to examine key questions
on modernization, the city and cross-cultural exchanges in Enlightenment
and 19th-century Russia. The primary, unpublished research material is
found in the Talbot Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, a unique and
virtually unknown resource of c.1000 prints dating from the early 18th
to the mid-19th century, whose imagery relates to the construction and
character of St Petersburg as an imperial capital. This collection will
be used to examine the nature of print production and dissemination
within the context of Russian modernisation and urbanisation. There is
scope for the successful candidate to define and pursue their own
research questions appropriate to the primary research material.
Comparative studies of visual and archival material may involve travel
and research time abroad.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The studentship will cover tuition fees at home/EU rate and provide a
maintenance award at RCUK rates for a maximum of three years of
full-time doctoral study. See http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/160125/

In addition, the Ashmolean Museum will allocate up to £2,000 to the
award holder each year, to a maximum of £6,000 over the duration of the
studentship, to cover costs associated with undertaking research in
Oxford.

ELIGIBILITY AND HOW TO APPLY

All applicants should meet the AHRC’s academic criteria and residency
requirements. Please see:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/documents/guides/research-funding-guide/

Interested candidates are asked to submit their full applications, by
the deadline of 5.00 pm on Wednesday 23 March 2016, and also to have two
academic references sent by the same deadline. The further particulars
provide full details of the material required and how and where to
submit this.

For full details, including further particulars, see 
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANC802/ahrc-cdp-studentship/

Informal enquiries relating to the project can be directed to Dr
Rosalind Blakesley at [email protected]. Enquiries relating to the
administration of the studentship can be directed to Dr Nichola Tooke on
[email protected] or +44 1223 760122


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