The Graduate School of the “Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures” (CSMC) / Integriertes Graduiertenkolleg im Sonderforschungsbereich 950 “Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa” at the University of Hamburg invites applications for 2 Ph.D. scholarships (Graduate School Scholarship Programme of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD).

The CSMC is a unique research centre for the historical and comparative study of manuscript cultures in Asia, Africa, and Europe building on decades of manuscript studies at the University of Hamburg. It was established with a generous grant from the German Research Association (DFG) in order to develop a comprehensive approach to manuscript cultures including disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis.

We are looking for highly qualified and highly motivated Ph.D. students with an M.A. or equivalent degree in all disciplines studying manuscript cultures regardless of the region. Applicants who have already stayed in Germany for more than fifteen months at the time of the award nomination and applicants who have completed their last final exam more than six years before the application cannot be considered for the DAAD scholarship.

Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) theses must be written in English or German.