PhD Scholarship in Art and Archaeology for International applicant at SOAS, University of London, UK 2012.
The study subject is art and archaeology. The course level is PhD. The scholarship provider is University of London. The scholarship can be taken in UK.
To be eligible the applicant must have:-
-PhD degrees at the Department of Art & Archaelogy
-N.B. Preference will be given to those students writing their dissertations in the field of Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East.
Students of the Art and Archaeology of other regions and cultures will still be eligible to apply and may be awarded the Bursary in such circumstances when the applications of those candidates studying Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East are not deemed strong enough to merit the Bursary.
Scholarship is also open for International Students.
The Department of Art and Archaeology is pleased to invite applications to this bursary, created in recognition of the work of Dr Aida Sulayman Arif, an eminent archaeologist who completed her PhD at SOAS in 1960.
Throughout her long and distinguished career, Dr Arif served a number of different fellowships, lectureships, associate professorships and visiting professorships in some of the world's most prestigious seats of learning.
Her teaching and research took her to places as far afield as the University of Khartoum (Sudan), the University of Jordan, McGill University (Canada), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) and Harvard University, Boston (in the United States).
She participated in numerous archaeological digs and has many publications to her name. Many of Dr Arif's students went on to hold key posts in the Department of Antiquities in Jordan and some neighbouring Arab countries.
She retired in 1991. (Dr Arif is the widow of the late Ahmad Mustafa Abu-Hakima – author of the 'The Modern History of Kuwait' – and fellow SOAS alumnus. The Ahmad Mustafa Abu-Hakima Bursary at SOAS has been named after him).
You can apply to this position by post.
The scholarship application deadline is 27 April 2012.
Source:
Aida Sulayman Arif Bursary in Art and Archaeology: SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/aida-sulayman-arif-bursary-in-art-and-archaeology-.html)