Application for Academic Fellowships

The deadline is Friday, December 7, 2007: application forms must be delivered via e-mail by this date, and letters of recommendation must be postmarked by this date.

The application form can be downloaded here. The Project Proposal and Curriculum Vitae are to be copied from word-processing files and pasted into the end of the application form. The Project Proposal should not exceed 1300 words.

Details regarding e-mail portion: The application form is to be sent in electronic format only (as an e-mail attachment), with Project Proposal and Curriculum Vitae included as part of a single digital file. The file must be received by December 7 at ita-fellows@columbia.edu. An e-mail message from the Academy will confirm receipt.

Details regarding paper portion: at least two letters by referees familiar with the candidate's work should be submitted. Such recommendations must be submitted as signed originals on letterhead paper, postmarked by December 7, and sent via post to Dr. Barbara Faedda, The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA. All materials should be sent in English.

Former Fellows may re-apply no earlier than four years after the completion of their residencies. Fellows may not hold concurrent fellowships and are expected to dedicate their time to research while in residence.

Candidates for the Alexander Bodini Research Fellowship in the Sciences (intended for an Italian child psychiatrist or developmental neuroscientist) should note the special guidelines. Candidates for the Premio New York can find the application here.

Guidelines and Selections

Here below is the Call for Applications published in Fall 2007.

The selection of Fellows will be based on the quality of the applications. These will be reviewed by a jury appointed by the Director and the Advisory Board of the Academy. Approximately 16 Fellowships will be awarded every year.

Normally Fellowships will be open to advanced scholars from the post doctoral to the full professorial level. Fellows will be expected to be in residence for one or two academic semesters.

Where appropriate, Fellows will be expected to work together with scholars in relevant departments at Columbia. At the Academy, Fellows will find a place where they can work, interact amongst themselves and with members of the Columbia community, and generally remain free from outside obligations. For periods of either one or two academic semesters, the Academy will provide office space and support, with opportunities for the organization of public lectures, seminars, conferences and publication.

Fellows will be expected to be in residence for the duration of their stay at the Academy, although connections with other institutions of higher learning will be encouraged. Absences for more than three days at a time should be requested from the Director.

Given the large number of eminently qualified candidates for the Italian Academy Fellowships every year, candidates selected in any one year will not be allowed to postpone their offer of a Fellowship to another year. If the Fellowship is not taken up in the term of the year in which it is offered it will be forfeited – although candidates who turned down an offer of a Fellowship in one year may of course apply for the Fellowship in another year. No guarantee of success, however, can be offered in such cases. Again, former Fellows may re-apply no earlier than four years after the completion of their residency.

2008 Call For Applications

Columbia University
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Fellowships 2008-09

Applications are invited for projects concerning cultural identity, cultural transmission, and cultural memory, particularly – but not exclusively – with regard to Italy. Applications dealing with the scientific, sociological, and technological aspects of culture and memory are also encouraged. Special consideration will be given to proposals in the neurosciences relevant to the Academy's ongoing project on Art and Neuroscience. One Bodini Fellowship will be available in the field of adolescent psychiatry, another in aspects of the relationship between culture and religion.

Fellowships are open to both US and non-US citizens at the post-doctoral and faculty level. Fellows receive a stipend, full health benefits, travel allowance, and an office in the Academy.

The deadline is December 7, 2007.
For all details, see www.italianacademy.columbia.edu.