PROPOSED FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
SALT studies experimental thinking, research, social change and transformations through a critical and multidimensional perspective and develops programs for experimental thinking and research. SALT Research brings together comprehensive sources in order to contribute to local and regional memory, and blends different fields of knowledge. It attaches importance to creation of new thoughts from the crossbreeding of various disciplines and the gaps between them. The research projects of the organisation goes beyond linear writing of history, reading subject to the material and traditional branches of teaching. SALT Research combines comprehensive information and documentary sources focusing on contemporary art, architecture, design, urbanism, social and economic history and puts these at the disposal of public with new opportunities of research.
The fellow will be working on the archive of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions within the framework SALT Research with the cooperation of ARIT.
The objective is to conduct research on how American Board mission was structured in Anatolia and Balkans in early 19th and 20th-century, and the life in its hospitals, publishing houses and different institutions by using the archive of SALT Research as a reference. The research also includes unveiling and interpretation of the resources to read economic development, social life, the construction of the city, and identity formation at the local levels.
The fellowship scheme includes bringing together visual and textual resources about the relations of Protestant Armenians with the mission, their position in the economic and social life of the city, their relation with the state, and that can reveal their contribution in the construction of the city by contacting respective persons and institutions, as well as developing outputs out of this research that can be studied on later.
EXPECTED PROFILE
- Interest in Ottoman economic, social and urban history of 19th-century
- Basic knowledge about Armenian life in Anatolia
- Good knowledge of English
- Language skills for reading and understanding handwritten Armenian in archival documents
- Preferably capable of reading Turkish and Ottoman texts
- Competency to have access to sources at different institutions in the field of research
- Able to cooperate with different institutions
- A researcher at postgraduate or doctorate level
CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Flexible fellowship days and hours. Days off on weekends and official holidays
PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP (JANUARY – JUNE 2017)
Flexible fellowship days and hours. Days off on weekends and official holidays