Research Award Recipients

2012-2013

Lucia Finotto
NEJS
"Between Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin: Jewish Translators of Islamic Sciences in the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily"

Allison Gonzalez
NEJS
"A Cultural History of Spanish Jewish Writer Rafael Cansinos Assens"

Geraldine Gudefin
History
"The Law of 1905 and the French Jewish Community"

Peter Novick
Comparative History
"Visions of Jewish Domination in the Plutodemocrazie"

Jason Olson
NEJS
"The Impact of the Six-Day War on Jewish-Christian Relations in America"

Past Grant Recipients

Research Grants

Graduate Research Awards
Information for 2013-2014
Proposal deadline: December 10, 2013

The Tauber Institute offers grants for pre-dissertation and dissertation research in any academic discipline of Jewish Studies.* Grants up to $5000 will be awarded to cover travel expenses (such as visits to archives), purchase of research materials such as microfilm (but excluding books), and costs of data collection and processing. 

Eligibility

All students enrolled in a doctoral program at Brandeis University are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to students who have successfully completed their course work by the end of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Proposals should include:

  • title and the objectives of the research project; and an explanation of how this research constitutes an integral part of your doctoral research
  • description of research plans, including data to be used, methodology, description of sources, etc
  • breakdown of specific expenditures to be covered by the grant
  • letter of recommendation from faculty advisor
  • names of other granting agencies to which you have applied
  • curriculum vita

Selection Criteria:

  • originality and creativity of the research proposal
  • importance of the proposed dissertation to the applicant’s field
  • appropriateness of primary-source collections and institutions in which the applicant proposes to conduct research

Decisions concerning applications will be made on the recommendation of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Tauber Institute.

* For grants in Israel Studies please contact the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University

Submit Proposals to:

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Lown 306A; Mail Stop 075
Deadline is: December 10, 2013
Awards will be announced by February 12, 2014

Proposals will be accepted on line sent to: tauber@brandeis.edu

*For grants in Israel Studies please contact the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University.

Read our Grant Writing Guide for Tauber as well as other grants, prepared by Professor ChaeRan Freeze. See also a sample proposal to NEH by Professor Freeze. Also see our listing of available grants.

For more information:
781-736-2125; Fax: 781-736-2070;
Email: tauber@brandeis.edu;

http://www.brandeis.edu/tauberinstitute