IAA Fund for Recent PhDs for RAI Attendance

Please observe the following rules and regulations:

Conditions

  1. The IAA Fund for Recent PhDs for RAI Attendance is meant for advanced students and scholars who completed their PhD within the past eight years and do not receive funding for taking part in the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI), the annual Assyriological congress.
  2. The fund will provide € 400 per person (€ 800 for persons traveling from the Middle East) to cover costs related to registration and travel to the RAI in order to present their work. One award per year will be offered to a scholar from the Middle East. 
  3. Five awards will be made each year.

Committee

  1. The committee, which will be selected by the IAA Board, shall consist of four IAA members, one of whom is a member of the IAA Board and one of whom is a representative of the current RAI organizing committee.
  2. The RAI representative will change every year. The other committee members will serve for three years, after which new members will be chosen.
  3. The IAA board representative will be serving as the chair of the committee.

Timetable

  1. Applications should be sent to the IAA Office in Leiden no later than January 15th. The office shall then forward them to the committee members before February 1st.
  2. The four members of the committee will evaluate the applications and make a preliminary ranking.
  3. The committee will submit its selection report to the IAA Board no later than March 1st.
  4. The Board will review the committee’s report and announce the winners no later than March 15th.
  5. . During the General Meeting the committee’s chair or a representative will congratulate the winners.

Application

Please send your application to the following email address  iaasubsidies@iaassyriology.com 

Your application should include:

  1. a current CV
  2. A title and short abstract of the paper you want to present at the RAI (no more than 500 words).

 

Previous winners

2024

Aviya Fraenkel

Nicholas Gill

Raleigh Heth

Jaafar Jotheri

Zachary Rubin

Marie Young

2023

Jon Beltz 

Anastasia Tchaplyghine 

Adam Howe

Poppy Tushingham  

2022

Andrew Pottorf

2021

Mary Frazer

Etienne Bordreuil

Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira

Melania Zingarello

Türkan Pilavci

Troels Pank Arbøll 

2020

It was not possible to make awards in 2020, because the RAI was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

2019

Rodrigo Hernaiz

Francesca Minen

Irene Sibbing-Plantholt

Elyze Zomer

Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese (divided)

2018

Armando Bramanti

Costanza Coppini

Zenobia Homan

Luděk Vacin

Livio Warbinek 

2017

Netanel Anor

Mary Frazer

Virginie Muller

Silvia Salin

Lisa Wilhelmi

2016

Giacomo Benati

Goesta Gabriel

Michela Piccin

Louise Pryke

Selena Wisnom