Category: Funding, Grants, Scholarships, Jobs

Details of funding opportunities for art historians including undergraduate and graduate opportunities, postdoctoral and senior fellowships. There are further link to funding opportunities under ‘Art History Links’.

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 26th May 2017

Jobs Australia Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, Koori Heritage Trust – deadline 14th June 2017 Curatorial Assistant, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery – deadline 9th June 2017 Museum Officer, Tasmanian Wool Centre – deadline 30th June 2017 International Senior Registrar, Waikato Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato – deadline 5th June 2017 Motesiczky Postdoctoral Fellow (Central or Eastern European Cultural History or Humanities) Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London- deadline 16th June 2017 Head of Exhibition (ArtScience Museum), Singapore – deadline not specified Teaching Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Art (fixed term 22 months), University of Birmingham – deadline 2nd June 2017 Teaching Fellow in Modern European and North American Art (fixed term 22 months), University of Birmingham – deadline 2nd June 2017 Calls for Papers all-over. Magazin fuer Kunst und Aesthetik, Number 13 – deadline 16th July 2017 OAR:…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 19th May 2017

Jobs Australia McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Program (Applicants must have been awarded a PhD from a university other than the University of Melbourne by the closing date) – final deadline 25th September 2017 Assistant Curator Aboriginal Interpretation Projects, Sydney Living Museums – deadline 29th May 2017 Head of Indigenous Relations, Sydney Living Museums – deadline 29th May 2017 Senior Curator of Asian Art, The National Gallery of Australia – deadline 30th June 2017 Senior Curator International Paintings, Sculpture & Design, The National Gallery of Australia – deadline 30th June 2017 International Professor of Arts-based Research and Pedagogy, Aalto University – deadline 8th June 2017 Senior Lecturer, Critical & Contextual Studies in Contemporary Art Practice, University of Dundee – deadline 6th June 2017 Senior Lecturer and Director of Liberal Arts (Education and Research), University of Exeter – deadline 7th June 2017 Sackler Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, -…

Funding | Capstone Editing’s Available Grants for Academic Women

Capstone Editing is happy to announce the launch of two new research grants for female academics. An Australian business established to support female academics is offering two grants to ease pressures that often force women out of academia. Capstone Editing was founded by Dr Lisa Lines, a former history lecturer and mother of two who—like many women—struggled to balance motherhood with an academic career. ‘Women are significantly under-represented in the senior levels of academia in Australia and around the world’, Dr Lines said. ‘It is no secret that the primary reason for the “leaky academic pipeline”, whereby women leave academia or aren’t promoted to the higher levels, is motherhood’. Academic workloads are huge. Almost all academics work more than 40 hours a week, with more than half working 50–80 hours. This is impossible for many women to sustain, even in…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 12th May 2017

Jobs Australia Program Manager, West Space, Melbourne – deadline 31st May 2017 Director Duldig Studio – museum + sculpture garden, Melbourne – deadline 29th May 2017 Head, Sculpture Discipline, Australian National University – deadline 14th May 2017 Professor of Screen Studies, University of Melbourne – deadline 20th June 2017 Collections and Curatorial Manager, University of Wollongong Art Collection – deadline 22 May 2020 Lead Curator, State Library Victoria  – deadline 30th May 2017 Curator Officer, RMIT – deadline 21st May 2017 Exhibition Support Officer, SSJG Heritage Centre Broome – deadline 29th May 2017 Head of Experience and Learning, Sydney Living Museums – deadline 15th May 2017 International Director, The Warburg Institute, London – deadline 30th May 2017 Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex – deadline 13th June 2017 Lecturer in Visual Cultures (Post 1) (particularly contemporary problematics of performance art, for example, around sexuality,…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 28th April 2017

Jobs Australia Curator | Part-time (0.8), Monash University Museum of Art – deadline 9th May 2017 Education and Public Programs Officer, UQ Art Museum – deadline 17th May 2017 International Professorship in the History of Art, Science and Folk Practice – Mellon Chair, University of London – The Warburg Institute – deadline 21st May 2017 Senior Lecturer/ Lecturer – General Education (Humanities/Social Science), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen – deadline 18th June 2017 Senior Lecturer/ Lecturer – General Education (Art History/Film Studies), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen – The School of Humanities and Social Science – deadline 18th June 2017 Funding Applications are now open for the Power Institute 2018 Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowships – deadline 20th July 2017 Calls for Papers The Histories of Loans: Mempories and Challenges of…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 21st April 2017

Jobs Australia Curatorial and Collections Officer, Griffith Artworks (GAW) – deadline 26th April 2017 Director, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston – deadline 28th April 2017 Registrar, Bunjil Place Gallery, City of Casey – deadline 12th April 2017 International Artistic Director, Te Tuhi, New Zealand – deadline 29th May 2017 Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in History and History of Art, Oxford Brookes University – deadline 19th May 2017 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (including the role of Academic Course Leader in MA Fine Art), University of Gloucestershire – deadline 23rd May 2017 Funding Rae and George Hammer Memorial Visiting Research Fellowship for research in the Fryer Library, University of Queensland – deadline 28 April 2017. Calls for Papers OPEN ISSUE: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1, 2018 – deadline 30th July 2017 Fluctuating alliances: art, politics, and diplomacy in the…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 13th April 2017

Jobs Australia Design And Creative Practice ECP Postdoctoral Scholarship, RMIT – deadline 30th May 2017 Arts Administrator, Art Galleries Association of Australia (AGAA) (permanent part-time) – deadline not specified Art and Heritage curator, Flemington Heritage Centre – deadline 7th May 2017 International CMRS Career Development Fellowship in Renaissance History, University of Oxford – deadline 18th May 2017 Funding Henry Moore Foundation-BSR Fellowship in Sculpture, British School at Rome (open to British and Commonwealth citizens) – deadline 17th May 2017 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Emerging Writers Program – deadline 30th June 2017 Studio Residency (Oberegg), Switzerland, November 1 – 30, 2017 (for national and international cultural workers (individuals or teams with a max. of four persons) in all disciplines (visual arts, literature, new media, music, theatre, dance, design, architecture, film, photography, applied arts, and art-related academic fields) – deadline May 31,…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 7th April 2017

Jobs Australia Design And Creative Practice ECP Postdoctoral Scholarship, at RMIT University – deadline 30th May 2017 Curator, Arts Space Wodonga (Part time) – deadline 21st April 2017 Curator, Indigenous Collections, Museum Victoria – deadline 24th April 2017 Exhibitions and Collection Officer (part time), Maroondah – deadline 30th April 2017 International Head of Public Engagement / Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland – deadline 30th April 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities (includes art history), University of Exeter – College of Humanities – deadline 27th April 2017 Professor in Digital Humanities (includes art history), University of Exeter – College of Humanities – deadline 27th April 2017 Dean – College of Arts, University of Guelph, Toronto – deadline 27th May 2017 Lecturer in Contemporary Art, University of Bristol – deadline 2nd May 2017 Teaching Fellow/Curator in History of Art, Heritage and Museums, University of Bristol…

Job, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 31st March 2017

Jobs Australia Senior Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 7th April 2017 Senior Curator, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Ar, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 7th April 2017 Assistant Curator, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of NSW – deadline 7th April 2017 International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese art history, The Chinese University of Hong Kong – deadline 18th April 2017 Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford- deadline 21st April 2017 Lecturer in Fine Art (2 posts), University of Lincoln – deadline 10th April 2017 Director of Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University – deadline 24th May 2017 Funding The Harold Wright Scholarship and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarship for intensive study of prints at the British Museum, London – deadlin 17th April 2017 Calls for Papers…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 24th March 2017

Jobs Australia Curator, Public Programs, ACCA, Melbourne – deadline 3rd April 2017 Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane – deadline 14th April 2017 2 x 0.5 Lecturer (Lecturer B, Arts Management), RMIT University – deadline 9th April 2017 Director, NETS Victoria – deadline 10th April 2017 ACMI X Studio Coordinator, Australian Centre for the Moving Image – deadline 20th April 2017 Gallery Director, Noosa Regional Gallery – deadline 3rd April 2017 International Lecturer in Art History (pre 1750), University of St Andrews, School of Art History – deadline 24th April 2017 Lecturer in Art History (post 1750), University of St Andrews, School of Art History – deadline 24th April 2017 Lecturer in Art History (Museum and Gallery Studies), University of St Andrews, School of Art History – deadline 24th April 2017 Lecturer of…

Call for Nominations | CHASS Prizes 2017

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Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), a national advocacy body that supports the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector in Australia. CHASS are now inviting nominations for this year’s CHASS Australia Prizes. Nominations are currently open for the 2017 CHASS Australia Distinctive Work Prize, which is for an exceptional artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition or practical contribution to arts policy in 2016. This cash prize of $3,500 is being sponsored by Routledge. The nominated work must have some relevance to Australian cultural and intellectual life. More details here http://www.chass.org.au/2017-australia-prizes/. 2017 CHASS Australia Prize for a Future Leader –  for an individual under 30 years of age who is demonstrating leadership skill and potential in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. I have attached a poster with more information, trust you will find it useful. CHASS Australia Prize for a Book in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ($3,500) Nominees in this category must have published a non-fiction book/e-book…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 17th March 2017

Jobs Australia Curator, NETS Victoria – deadline 27th March 2017 Gallery Administrator/Manager, Station Gallery, South Yarra – deadline 22nd March 2017 International Teaching Fellows in History of Art (3 fixed term posts), University College London – deadline 24th March 2017 Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture, University of Cambridge – Faculty of English – deadline 20th March 2017 Principal Research Fellow in Interdisciplinary Art and Science, University of Westminster – Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media – deadline 5th Paril 2017 Funding Visiting Research Fellowship Program at MAAS Museum, Sydney – deadline 24th April 2017 or 16th October 2017 National Library of AUstralia Fellowships 2017 (various areas of research including curatorial research) – deadline 30th April 2017 Calls for Papers Art Institutions & Performance Art: International workshop for PhD candidates, (Justus Liebig University, Giessen, June 22 -…

Funding | Graphic Encounters PhD Scholarship – History Program, La Trobe University

Graphic Encounters PhD Scholarship – History Program, La Trobe University The scholarship: We seek applications from innovative Indigenous scholars in any discipline relevant to visual and/or print history to join the research team of the newly established Graphic Encounters research project based in the history department at La Trobe University. The project is dedicated to the study of Australian print-making depicting Aboriginal Australians from ‘discovery’ to federation (1770-1901). This historical period encompasses an era of intercultural encounters imagined within the graphic medium of prints, from engraving to lithography. Concurrently the many techniques in image reproduction refined over these same decades. We seek to document particularly the production of prints featuring Aboriginal Australians and their recurrence and dissemination within a transnational web of print media and print making. The PhD project may focus on the cultural, social, economic, geographic, or other…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 10th March 2017

Jobs Australia Lecturer in Art History (circa 500-1600), University of Melbourne – deadline 28th March 2017 ACMI X Director, Melbourne – deadline 26th March 2017 Art Gallery Director, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery – deadline 27th March 2017 Assistant Curator, History, The Western Australian Museum – deadline 13th March 2017 Indigenous Program Producer – (Special Measures), National Gallery of Australia – deadline 30th March 2017 Curator Contemporary Arts Practice – Global, National Gallery of Australia – deadline 20th March 2017 International Director and Professor/Associate Professor – John David Stout Research Centre for the Study of New Zealand Society, History and Culture (SRC), Victoria University of Wellington – deadline 2nd April 2017 Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management, King’s College London – deadline 31st March 2017 Assistant Professor, Arts and Cultural Management, MacEwan University – deadline 1st May 2017 Lecturer of African Art History, School of Art + Design, University…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 3rd March 2017

Jobs Australia Kinnane Curatorial Intern, UQ Art Museum – deadline 12th March 2017 Director, Curatorial & Museums, Sydney Living Museums – deadline 19th March 2017 Project Coordinator – Collection Digitisation, Parliament House Art Collection, Parliament of Australia, Canberra – deadline 12th March 2017 Curator, Visual Art and Design (re-advertised), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG), Launceston – deadline 10th March 2017 International Lecturer / Curator in European Architecture and Design, The University of Glasgow, College of Arts – deadline 19th March 2017 Conservator of Works of Art on Paper (Prints), The Fitzwilliam Museum – deadline 27th March 2017 University Lectureship in Japanese Art and Material Culture, University of Leiden – deadline 1st April 2017 Head of the Institute of Creative Arts, University of Worcester – deadline 23rd March 2017 Part-time Associate Professorships (Non-Tutorial Fellowships) in Fine Art (2 posts), University of Oxford – Ruskin School of…