Applications are invited for the Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th-Century Scottish Studies, co-sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (IASH). The Fellowship is for two to six months and may be taken at any time of the year. Fellows are expected to be in residence in Edinburgh for the duration of the Fellowship and to participate fully in IASH activities.
The Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship honours two outstanding scholars of eighteenth-century Scottish literature and culture, Professor David Daiches (1912–2005) and Professor Susan Manning (1953–2013). David Daiches was one of the original directors of IASH during the 1980s and was the first recipient of ECSSS’s Lifetime Achievement Award, presented at the Society’s first annual conference in 1988. Susan Manning served as director of IASH from 2005 until her death, President of ECSSS from 1994 to 1996, and continuously as a member of the ECSSS Executive Board from 1994 to 2013. She was awarded the ECSSS Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in May 2013. Although both David Daiches and Susan Manning had broad intellectual interests and expertise, each made a particularly important contribution to eighteenth-century Scottish studies as an interdisciplinary and international research field.
The fellowship supports research on any aspect of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. It is open to post-doctoral scholars of all nationalities, in all disciplines, and at all career levels. Fellows must be members of ASECS and ECSSS at the time the funds are awarded.
The fellowship provides a bursary of £1,500 per month, for a minimum of 2 months and a maximum of 3 months, i.e., a maximum award of £4,500. Fellows who are in residence at IASH between 2 and 3 months receive a prorated stipend. Fellows may be in residence at IASH for up to 6 months but do not receive funding beyond the maximum stated above.
Potential fellows are required to identify a collaborator or mentor for their project. This person should be based in the University of Edinburgh, have agreed to act as mentor/collaborator, and be named on the fellowship application. The following Edinburgh-based ECSSS members are happy to act as first points-of-contact for applicants, either as potential mentor/collaborator or to open conversation with other colleagues whose interests may be a better fit. They can be contacted on:
– Thomas Ahnert: thomas.ahnert@ed.ac.uk (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/thomas-ahnert)
– Adam Budd: adam.budd@ed.ac.uk (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/adam-budd)
– John Cairns: john.cairns@ed.ac.uk (https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-john-w-cairns)
– Esther Mijers: e.mijers@ed.ac.uk (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/esther-mijers)
For more information on how to apply for the Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th-Century Scottish Studies, or to make a donation to the fund with a credit card, please click here.
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Daiches-Manning Fellows (by year of appointment)
2023 – Noelle Gallagher (University of Manchester), “‘A Cogfu’ of War Parritch’: Oats and Scottishness in Eighteenth-Century Print Culture”
2022 – Elad Carmel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; “A Moderate Radical: Robert Wallace on Liberty, Equality, and Slavery”); Valerie Wallace (University of St Andrews; “The Case of William Macao: Alienness, Subjecthood and Legal Pluralism during Britain’s Reign of Alarm”)
2021 – Rachael Scally (History, Independent Scholar), “Slavery, Colonialism and the Edinburgh Medical School in the Long Eighteenth Century”
2020 – Alasdair Macfarlane (History, Independent Scholar), “The Unpublished and The Unproclaimed: Contemporary Counter-Narratives to the Darien Scheme”
2019 – Désha Osborne (Africana, Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Hunter College, CUNY), “‘Charaib Argantes’ and Scottish Tancredi: Historical Imagination and the Colonial Legacy in the Eighteenth Century”
2018 – Roger Maioli (English, Florida), “Redrawing the Boundaries: The Enlightenment Crisis of Values”
2018 – Elizabeth Ford (Music, Glasgow), “The Musical Culture of Coffee Houses and Taverns in 18th-Century Edinburgh”
2017 – Robin Mills (History, London), “Religion and the Science of Human Nature in the Scottish Enlightenment” (declined; two fellows were therefore appointed in 2018)
2016 – Spyridon Tegos (Philosophy, Crete), “Ceremonies of Politeness and the Origins of Middle Class Manners in Hume’s Philosophy in its Scottish Context”
2015 – Vivien Williams (Music, Glasgow), “The Bagpipe in Literature and Art in Late 18th-Century Scotland”
2014 – Clarisse Godard Desmarest (British Studies, Amiens), “Women and Architecture in 18th-Century Scotland”
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