Fellowships and Scholarships
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The CMC provides support, on various levels, to advanced students and post-doctoral candidates, whose topic of research is directly relevant to the CMC's interests.
Ms. Alexandra Nocke
Ms. Alexandra Nocke (MA) is currently preparing her Ph.D. proposal on the Mediterranean identity of Israel. Ms. Nocke has written an excellent MA thesis, which was also published a s a book:Israel today: self-perception in transition (Israel heute: Ein Selbsbild im Wandel), Bodenheim: Philo 1998. She comes highly recommended with a varied and impressive CV. We wish to help her research changing aspect of Israel as a "Mediterranean Laboratory" and accord her financial aid to match other funds. She will benefit from a small stipend from the Israeli government and will be awarded an official standing at Tel Aviv University.
Christina Maras
Ms Chrisitna Maras comes to us from Sardinia. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Tel Aviv University, specializing in "border figures" in languages and cultures and the concept of identity. She takes part in research on cultures in the Mediterranean "minority" islands (St. Pietro Island) and the application of the concept of "minority" in Mediterranean port cities. She was wonderfully active in organizing and coordinating contacts with Sardinia for the summer workshop of 2000 on "Mediating Literatures". She worked closely with the many Italian-speaking participants.
2 Scholarships for Greek Ph.D. Students
1. Mrs. Amilitou Eftychiaworks on the image of the Mediterranean in the novels of Gr. Xenopoulos. In Israel, she will be working directly with Prof. Ruth Amossi. Her work may result in a paper to be submitted to our own Mediterranean Historical Review. Her Stay in Israel is in cooperation with Universit? Paris III where she is working on a Ph.D. thesis.
2. Mr. Theodore Papatheodorou is a doctoral candidate at the University of Athens, Greece. He specializes in literary representations of Mediterranean Peoples (Greeks, Jews, Arabs) and in the topic of "Europeans in" (in Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria). His period of specialization is literature during World War II. In Israel he will be working with Prof. Ruth Amossi, of Tel Aviv University.
2 Scholarships for a semester of Spanish Studies at the University of Granada
The Center for Mediterranean Civilizations provided part of a scholarship aimed at sending two students from the faculty of Humanities to a semester of Spanish studies at the University of Granada.
1. Yael Zohar finished, with honors, two years of Spanish at Tel Aviv University and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology. She intends to proceed to doing her masters in Anthropology and History of Spanish speaking societies.
2. Einat Hasson finished, with honors, two years of Spanish at Tel Aviv and is currently finishing the second year of her BA in education and General studies (where she is taking courses in Spanish and Latin American History). She intends to go on with her studies of Spanish History, mainly the History of the Spanish Jewry.
The Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Israeli Scholarships
1. Assaf Yasur Landau is a doctoral candidate in the department of Ancient Near Eastern studies at Tel Aviv University. He is currently working on patterns of migrations and settlement in the second millenium BCE, dealing with interconnections between the Aegean and the Levant.
2. uval Rotman wrote an excellent MA thesis in Eunuchs in the Byzantine world. He is now completing a Ph.D. on "Slaves and Slavery in the Byzantine World: 6th-11th centuries".
3. Gur Zak is an advanced undergraduate student whose main interest lies in Mediterranean societies in antiquity. He will be commencing his graduate studies soon and we supported him in studying at an intensive course of Greek, which takes place in Cork, Ireland, this summer.
2 Special CMC Fellowships:
During the academic year 2000-20001 the CMC will award two fellowships of 10,000 NIS each. The fellowships are awarded to advanced research students whose subject is essentially Mediterranean. The fellowships were advertised and candidates submitted full dossiers and letters of recommendations. These are the two chosen candidates:
1. Mr. Oren Tal works on a Ph.D. thesis at Tel Aviv University. The thesis deals with Mediterranean aspects of processes of Hellenization of Ancient Israel and its coasts. Adoption of language, city-state models, public institutions, burial customs, and more - all point to acculturation on a variety of levels between Mediterranean civilizations. Mr. Tal, an archeologist, will provide a synthesis of material and cultural data, comparing historical and geo-political situations with their archeological expressions.
2. Mr. Eran Shavit an advanced student in Religious Studies and in the Near Eastern Studies department comes exceptionally recommended. He examines the Axis Mundi theory in application to the ancient Near East, stressing inter-civilizations aspects, especially with regard to the notion of deity and the MATZEVA (sacred stones, foci of worship) in the Eastern Mediterranean.