The position of Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for 2010/11, unfortunately will not be available.  Please visit the website later this year for any changes for 2011/12.

Candidates should normally have completed a doctorate.

Applicants must have a demonstrable connection with UK academia.

The Fellowship will be tenable for one year from September 2009. The Fellow will be based at the Institute in Ankara and will be required to spend at least two-thirds of the period of the Fellowship in Turkey.

The subject of the proposed research should focus on Turkey and/or the Black Sea littoral and may fall within any of the academic disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences.  It should lead to a substantial publication either in monograph or in article form.

The grant will be £16,000 per annum, payable monthly.  The BIAA will pay the cost of one return flight between the UK and Turkey.  Accommodation will be available at the Institute in Ankara, as required, at a rate of £10 per night, or £250 per month.

If the proposed scheme of research entails extensive field or museum/library-based research, it is anticipated that the successful candidate will be eligible to apply for British Academy research funding to support this activity.

Applications will be accepted from 24th March 2009.  Applicants should submit an application form accompanied by a covering letter which details the research proposal by the closing date of 1st May 2009 (by email to biaa@britac.ac.uk) Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in London on the 18th May.

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To discuss your application please email Claire McCafferty

Previous holders of the Fellowship include:

Dr Peter Popkin, Empire collapse and subsistence practices: tracking changes in animal management from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age at Kilise Tepe

Dr Georgia Petridou, Divine politics: epiphanies, identity, and diplomatic discourse in the Hellenistic city: Greek mainland, islands, Anatolia.

Dr Tristan Carter, Viewing cultural interaction in prehistoric Anatolia through obsidian

Dr Can Erimtan, Nationalism, history and Turkey (1922-1948)

Dr Andrew Peacock, Trebizond and the Islamic World in the 13th century AD

Dr Luke Lavan, Late antique urbanism

Dr Evangelia Ioannidou, Study of faunal material

Dr Matthew Elliot, Jinnis and modernisation: Islam in the 19th and 20th century Near East

Dr Alan Greaves, The history of Miletus

Dr Gareth Darbyshire, Iron in ancient Anatolia

Dr Mark Nesbit, Aşvan archaeobotanical report