Central European University invites applications for a fully funded PhD Fellowship starting in the 2022/2023 academic year in the Artistic Research project REPATRIATES and New Originals: Museums and Communities engaged in the process of object repatriation from European collections. The PhD will be supervised by the project’s Principle Investigator Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll in the Department of History. The Fellow will pursue a PhD in Comparative History and will be funded by the European Research Council, Horizon 2020.
The REPATRIATES research project is seeking to appoint a practice-based researcher from Nigeria, Bénin Republic, or Mali as an integral member of the wider research team. The position is to be held as a PhD Candidate for three to four years. The appointee is expected to have a developed social practice as an artist, art historian, critical heritage studies practitioner, anthropologist (or related disciplines) as well as a demonstrable knowledge of material culture and techniques of making, and a clear interest in the processes and contexts of the museum/community repatriation experience. Awareness of, and involvement in, current artistic research concerning repatriation by contemporary artists from both Nigeria and Bénin will be significant.
The appointee will hold the position of Doctoral Student, and will join an interdisciplinary research team composed of artists, curators, art historians and others based in Australia and Namibia, as well as a range of academic and institutional partners in Paris, Berlin, London and Vienna. The appointee will be expected to work collaboratively with other members of this international team to effect creative, reflexive and analytical research tasks. The REPATRIATES project, led by artist Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, offers a structured framework in which to afford research time to individual and collaborative critical analyses of a range of repatriation processes and practices.
The selected applicant will receive a monthly living allowance equal to the amount of the standard CEU PhD Scholarship for the duration of 36 months, with opportunities to apply for additional research funds covered by the ERC project, including a travel allowance and support for a six-month write-up period.
