RCMC/FEL Junior Fellowship

Students and researchers with a background in museum studies, anthropology, archaeology, art history or related disciplines can apply. We offer four fellowships in total, each of €1,500. We may not award all fellowships each year.  

The call for proposals is closed. A new call will open in September 2019.

*From 2012 to 2016, the RCMC/FEL Junior Fellowship program operated as the Dr. Steven Engelsman Grants.

• The types of activities we support are related to conducting (ethnographic) research and/or publishing on the museum collections. We appreciate creativity and innovative ideas. (Activities we do not support are for instance the organisation of symposia and travel to conferences to present work.)
• Make sure that the estimated budget is comprised solely of eligible costs.
  Eligible costs are costs which you have to make in order to conduct the research: travel expenses, accommodation costs, translation costs, etc. Non eligible costs are fees and charges.
• When you apply for the fellowship program you are expected to attend the Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture.
• You may only apply once for a fellowship. We will not consider revised or new applications in subsequent years.
• Please note that incomplete and late submitted applications will not be processed.

This fellowship is co-sponsored by the Foundation for Ethnology in Leiden (FEL), which also co-sponsors the annual Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures.

• Willem van Wijk – Will conduct comparative research on the representation of African art in South-Korea and the Netherlands.
• Adiva Lawrence – Will make a comparative study on museums and exhibitions from different contexts contribute to "re-archiving" black history and memory, with a focus on the memory of slavery.
• Jaimee Comstock-Skipp – Will rethink typologies and labels in her research: Cataloguing Persianate Arts of the Book in the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.
• Rab Messina – Will analyse how designs can be made more sustainable for a wider audience by bringing technology and design closer together.
• Caroline Fernandes Caromano – Will research Amazonian Flames in European Houses which is an investigation of Fire as a Museum Object in ethnographic and archaeological collections from the Amazon in European museums.

• Sebastiaan van ‘t Holt - Practice of ayahuascashamanism in the Netherlands and Peru
• Giulia Golla Tunno - The presence and role of “art” within three national colonial museums in Europe
• Sita Reddy - The Hortus Indicus Malabaricus as a botanical book and as an ethnographic object