The Nan Dunbar-Jane Gardner Memorial Scholarship in Classics, 2025
Published: 28 October 2024
For PhD studies in any area of Classics and Ancient History
The Nan Dunbar-Jane Gardner Memorial Scholarship in Classics, 2025
- Start date: 01 October 2025
- End date: 30 September 2028
- Application deadline: Monday 2 December 2024
Classics at the University of Glasgow invites prospective applications for the Nan Dunbar-Jane Gardner Memorial Scholarship in Classics to fund PhD study in any area of Classics and Ancient History (broadly construed), for three years, beginning in the academic year 2025-26. The award covers Home fees for three years, with an annual stipend averaging £11,500 (£10,500 in year one, rising to £12,750 in year three). (International students are eligible to apply, but the award can only cover fees up to the Home fees amount.)
The scholarship has been generously funded by a donation and commemorates two important alumnae of Classics at Glasgow. Nan Dunbar (1928-2005) graduated with a First from Glasgow in 1950, and became Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, publishing a monumental commentary on Aristophanes’ Birds in 1995; Jane Gardner (1934-2023) graduated with a First from Glasgow in 1955, and became Professor of Ancient History at Reading, writing a number of seminal works on Roman economic, legal and social history. Both were Glaswegians, and the first in their families to go to university.
To apply for the Dunbar-Gardner Scholarship candidates MUST apply in the Glasgow College of Arts & Humanities PhD scholarship 25-26 competition using this form AND have applied for a place on the Classics PhD programme at Glasgow) by 2 December 2024, 12 noon.
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Applicants will be informed by the end of January 2025 if their application has been selected for nomination to the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) for an AHRC scholarship. No separate application is required for the Dunbar-Gardner scholarship: applications will be assessed on the basis of materials submitted in the College of Arts & Humanities competition.
Interested applicants are advised to contact Andrew Morrison (andrew.morrison@glasgow.ac.uk) and Adrastos Omissi (adrastos.omissi@glasgow.ac.uk) in the first instance to discuss the most suitable supervisory team and their planned research proposal.
Classics at GLasgow
Classics at Glasgow includes academic experts across Greek and Latin literature and Greek and Roman cultural, social and political history, ranging from the Archaic period to the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity; we also have expertise in Egyptology (including hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts). We welcome applications across these subjects; areas of particular research strength include ancient drama, Egypt, epistolography, Hellenistic literature, historiography, late antiquity, literature in fragments, politics, religion, science & technology, ancient medicine.
See here for more details, with further links to individual research pages. Recent/current research and research projects within Classics at Glasgow include a new history of the Roman Senate (Steel), Greek and Latin letter collections to A.D. 400 (Morrison), narrative & literary approaches to ancient historiography (Hau), prostheses and assistive technology in antiquity (Draycott), materialism in Latin literature (Fox), trans readings of Greek drama (Ruffell), Greek inscribed dedications and dedicatory practice (Mili), panegyric in the later Roman Empire (Omissi), a new critical edition of the fragments of Latin fabula Atellana (Panayotakis), Ancient Egyptian Appeals to the Dead (McDonald).
We particularly welcome applications from women and those from other historically under-represented or marginalised backgrounds, groups or communities; we are committed to supporting access to higher education on the part of those communities.
First published: 28 October 2024
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