Traveling Scholarship for BA, MA and PhD students Ancient History, Classics, Archaeology, Assyriology at Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Turkey -2011

Study Subject(s):Ancient History, Classics, Archaeology, Assyriology and related fields

Course Level:Undergraduate, Postgraduate, PhD

Scholarship Provider: NIT

Scholarship can be taken at: Turkey

Eligibility:
MA and PhD students that attend the full course can receive a certificate stating their participation. Participants will be expected to do a modest amount of preparatory readings. There are also a limited number of slots for students/scholars who want to audit specific parts of the course.

Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: The Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) was the first real world empire and comprised a staggering multitude of nations and cultures. Scholars working on this unprecedented historical phenomenon have given most weight to the Greco-Roman sources, which, naturally, tend to focus mostly on Greek affairs and on the Greco-Persian wars (490-479). Since the early 1980s a new perspective has been growing, seeking to deconstruct the necessarily limited scope of the classical sources, describing long-term processes and underlying structures, and giving due attention to primary sources from within the empire, despite the inherent limitations that these sources also have.

Apply Here: http://www.nit-istanbul.org/nitactivities.htm

Scholarship Application Deadline: September 12, 2011