Doctoral studentship in Ancient North Arabian
The
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, invites applications
for a studentship funded by a research grant from the Arts and
Humanities Research Council for the Online Corpus of
the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA).
This
is an AHRC Full Studentship Award covering the costs of tuition fees
and providing a maintenance grant of £13,590 p.a. The award will be for
three years (36 months) and will commence on 1st
October 2013. The successful candidate will be admitted by the Faculty
of Oriental Studies and by Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
The
subject of research will be Safaitic vocabulary in the light of the
Bedouin dialects of Syria and northern Arabia (see Further Particulars).
The successful candidate will have a first class
or upper second B.A. Honours degree (or equivalent) in Arabic or in
Arabic and other Semitic languages or Semitic linguistics, and normally
will also hold, by the start of the award, a Master's degree in Arabic,
Semitic languages or linguistics or another
relevant subject, from a recognised research organisation. Candidates
must also have a good ability to read French and German.
In
order to be eligible for an AHRC Full Studentship Award, candidates
must have a 'relevant connection' with the United Kingdom (for details,
see Further Particulars).
Further particulars may be downloaded from <http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/krc/images/stories/ociana_dphil_fp.pdf>
Candidates
wishing to apply should, in the first instance, send a curriculum vitae
and short letter explaining why they are interested in, and suited for,
the studentship to Professor Jeremy Johns
<jeremy.johns@orinst.ox.ac.uk>.
The subject line of the email should read "OCIANA Studentship".
Eligible candidates will be invited to apply before the deadline of
Friday
8 March 2013.
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