Aida Sulayman Arif Bursary in Art and Archaeology 2011

Aida Sulayman Arif Bursary in Art and Archaeology 2011

PhD Bursary for the applicants of Any Nationality for the Students Pursuing Art and Archaeology in SOAS -2011

Study Subject: Art and Archaeology
Employer: SOAS
Level: PhD

The Department of Art and Archaeology is pleased to invite applications to this bursary, created in recognition of the work of Dr Aida Sulayman Arif, an eminent archaeologist who completed her PhD at SOAS in 1960.
Throughout her long and distinguished career, Dr Arif served a number of different fellowships, lectureships, associate professorships and visiting professorships in some of the world’s most prestigious seats of learning. Her teaching and research took her to places as far afield as the University of Khartoum (Sudan), the University of Jordan, McGill University (Canada), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) and Harvard University, Boston (in the United States). She participated in numerous archaeological digs and has many publications to her name.
N.B. Preference will be given to those students writing their dissertations in the field of Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East. Students of the Art and Archaeology of other regions and cultures will still be eligible to apply and may be awarded the Bursary in such circumstances when the applications of those candidates studying Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East are not deemed strong enough to merit the Bursary.
Applicants may be of any nationality and in need of the bursary to fund completion of their thesis. The bursary will be awarded to students writing up their PhD dissertations at SOAS in either their third or fourth year (or part-time equivalent) during the academic session 2011/12.
The successful candidate needs to be registered full-time during the period of tenure.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 29 April 2011.

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