Thanks to the generosity and support of the Schwarz Foundation the Gennadius Library is pleased to announce two new fellowships for study at the Gennadius Library: the Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music and the Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2021.

The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music supports research on music that focuses on cultural interactions in the Mediterranean world broadly defined. The fellowship aims to promote the study of interactions among Western European, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish cultures from the medieval to the modern period. Fellows will be expected to conduct a program of original research on a theme related to the collections of the Gennadius Library.

The fellowship will support career musicians, or researchers who are either currently PhD candidates or have received their PhD within the last 5 years, in the following fields of Study: Musical composition; Music conducting; History of Music; Musicology; and related fields.

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The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to the present. Open to Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. holders within five years of receiving the degree, who work on Architectural and Urban Design, History of Architecture, History of the City, Historical Geography, and related fields.

Projects should incorporate the holdings of the Gennadius Library (maps, topographical plans, landscapes etc.) and other appropriate resources of the American School of Classical Studies.

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