Functions (open to Caribbean individuals) shut on June 17, 2022, for the “Shared Island Tales between Scotland and the Caribbean: Previous, Current, Future Museum and Heritage Research PhD Scholarships.” See challenge description under.
Annalee Davis of Tilting Axis reminds us that, whereas substantial assist is being supplied, there may be nonetheless a shortfall of £14,764.00 as a result of the fellowship doesn’t cowl worldwide charges, subsequently, candidates might apply for additional funding; see Artwork Historical past postgraduate funding.
Undertaking Description: The proposed PhD tasks are a part of a considerable new workforce analysis challenge situated within the College of Artwork Historical past and Museum and Heritage Research on the College of St Andrews known as ‘Shared Island Tales between Scotland and the Caribbean: Previous, Current, Future’ attributable to begin in September 2022.
‘Shared Island Tales’ focuses on relations between the archipelagos of Scotland and the Caribbean by emphasising decolonial approaches and acknowledging the ability differential between completely different islands vis-à-vis (neo)colonialism and racial capitalism. It asks:
- Which collections from the islands inform unfinished tales of Empire?
- What’s the position of heritage communities for sustainable improvement?
- How can island group museums associate with NGOs, coverage and native organisations and companies for local weather motion?
- How can well being and well-being be understood in relation to group heritage, conventional ecological data, island life, ecologies and ecological legacies?
- What does this new data convey to debates on local weather justice, particularly as they relate to the position of younger individuals?
The challenge seeks to recruit two PhD college students full time for 3.5 years. One PhD challenge will give attention to the previous, telling ‘shared island tales’ via museum and heritage collections together with these belonging to the Nationwide Belief for Scotland (NTS), and constructing on rising makes an attempt to confront Scotland’s enrichment via the transatlantic commerce in enslaved individuals. Situated between museum and heritage research, historical past and reminiscence research, it’s envisaged that this challenge will interact with discussions associated to decolonisation and commemorative practices. A variety of analysis strategies together with new archival provenance analysis into island collections and colonialism, and interviews with curators, volunteers and focus teams is foreseen. Essential engagement with the methods during which NTS is working with modern artists in response to histories of colonialism and imperialism within the Caribbean can be of curiosity to this challenge.
The second PhD will give attention to the current and/or future facets of the analysis challenge. A comparative evaluation will likely be manufactured from cultural landscapes and biodiversity within the Caribbean and Scotland which were topic to speedy ecological change via colonisation or clearances. Contemplating the position of ‘sense of place’ for island communities previous and current, this challenge will foster an ecological strategy to heritage research via ideas together with ecomuseology. Specifically, the Hebrides and ‘West Indies’ will likely be some extent of comparability via their panorama microclimates and novel ecosystems situated in gullies, rock slopes and botanical gardens. With a give attention to the intangible cultural heritage of islands, group engagement and intergenerational transmission of information will likely be of explicit curiosity to this research. The response of artists to ecological change might also be explored. By way of a combination of desk-based analysis and first proof, this challenge would require a willingness to spend vital period of time on the islands for area work.
Artwork Historical past postgraduate funding: Candidates to the Postgraduate Analysis Programmes within the College of Artwork Historical past might think about making use of for any of the related scholarship and funding awards listed on these pages.
A extra intensive itemizing of scholarships, together with scholarships administered by exterior organizations, is out there within the College’s catalogue of Postgraduate Scholarships. For additional particulars on scholarships and funding, observe @StAfunding.
To use for these scholarships, you will need to already be admitted onto the related diploma program.
For description of scholarship and {qualifications}, see https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/information/title-156635-en.php
See funding hyperlink at https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/potential/pgr/funding/
[Unrelated image shown above: W.E. Beastall’s etching, “Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua,” engraved by Cordon, pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. See https://www.rct.uk/collection/755955/negroes-sunday-market-at-antigua-lettered-title and https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:976359.]