Karl Kaser Prize for Historical Anthropology in Southeastern Europe

[administrator]

The Centre for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures CSBSC

awards the

Karl Kaser Prize

for Historical Anthropology in Southeastern Europe (dissertation level and higher)

 

The prize is awarded to young researchers (maximum age: 35 years) for outstanding achievements in the above-mentioned field.

Prize money: 3,000 euros

The prize is awarded for a dissertation thesis (the approval of the dissertation must have taken place within the last 3 years – reference date: 1.1.2020) or a published monograph or at least three published research contributions, which are (a) thematically related, (b) have been subjected to a peer-review process and (c) are at least 70 pages long (Times New Roman 12p, 1.5).

In order to qualify as historical-anthropological research, works need to combine historical and anthropological approaches on a thematic and methodological level by:

• studying historical realities of life, experience, and everyday life, under the perspective of the agents under study;
• elaborating on subjects that deal with forms of human coexistence (family, kinship and community formations on a local and regional level) or fundamental experiences (gender, sexual orientation, body, health, childhood, old age, death, violence, etc.) or historically relevant conceptions of this world and the hereafter in cultural anthropological contexts;
• applying inter- or transdisciplinary approaches that are anthropologically oriented in a historical, cultural, or social sense;
• combining historical methods (archival research) with ethnographic methods (field research).

The work/s can be submitted in German, English, French, or in any language spoken in Southeastern Europe.

Please submit the following documents for the application:

• short curriculum vitae, including a description of scientific activities/research;
• list of publications (if applicable);
• electronic version of the non-printed dissertation thesis or the published research paper(s);
• an informative five-page abstract of the submitted work/s in English.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to: suedost@uni-graz.at

Application deadline: June 30, 2023

The prize winner will be informed in written form by the prize committee in October 2023.

The award ceremony will take place on November 15, 2023, at the University of Graz.