The last call for applications within this programme was open until 1 March 2023 and we do not plan any further application rounds within this funding framework. For further and future scholarship opportunities at the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, please visit our main website at https://www.zeit-stiftung.de/
"People are treated like commodities," says Piotr Czaban. In an interview with Karine Asatryan on the A1Plus platform, the journalist and activist talks about the situation of refugees at the Polish-Belarusian border. Asatryan conducted the interview as one of the participants who travelled to Poland's eastern border as part of the "Border in Focus" seminar in June 2023. Here, scholarship holders from the "Beyond Borders" programme came together with journalists whose work focuses on migration. The aim of the seminar was to gain a differentiated impression of the current migration situation in Poland and to show ways in which this can be communicated to the public.
You can find a short report about the seminar here.
The “Beyond Borders” programme was launched in 2020. Since then, the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS has funded 51 international doctoral students within the programme. The “Beyond Border” call for applications have focused on the following topics of “Borders, Democracy and Security” (2020), “Borders, Migration and Knowledge” (2022), and “Borders, Contestation and Conflict” (2023). Starting in 2024, the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS Ph.D. scholarship programme in the Research and Scholarship department will have a new thematic focus, which will be published on the foundation’s website in due course. There will be no further calls for applications within “Beyond Borders” programme.
Borders’ violations have been back in the breaking news since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The war expanded the armed conflict from the Donbas region to a large part of Ukrainian territory. Following the annexation of Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the Russian Federation has attempted to incorporate further occupied areas to its state territory. The leadership in Moscow has been openly questioning the integrity and sovereignty of the Ukrainian state.
The war in Ukraine together with further ongoing border disputes and clashes, i.e. between China and India, Ethiopia and Sudan or Armenia and Azerbaijan show that multilateralism is currently at stake. As the Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, Martin Kimani, underlined in his speech given on the 21st of February 2022 at the emergency session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, a renewed commitment to international cooperation is needed for worldwide peace and security. He invoked his nation’s struggle for independence from the British Empire and the necessity to consent to existing borders despite their colonial heritage. Can defining the limits of jurisdiction and governance ensure peace and the international order? And what would or could this 'international order' look like?
How did state borders develop historically in different parts of the world? How do they relate to cultural and social boundaries and depend on historical – national, imperial, colonial etc. – heritage? And what does territoriality mean today in times of geopolitical competition and changing domestic environments? How do borders contribute to the definition of sovereignty and belonging? What are their origins and how have they been transformed in the past and present times? What are the prospects of cross-border cooperation and integration?
Questions concerning borders, their contestation as well as territorial conflicts and disputes are the focus of the current call for applications for Ph.D. scholarships. We encourage applications for projects concentrating on following aspects, although other topics will be also considered:
We invite applications from Ph.D. students worldwide studying borders and bordering phenomena in different regions of the world. Both empirical research based on extensive fieldwork and projects centered on theoretical reflection are eligible for support. Innovative and challenging research questions as well as comparative approaches are highly welcome.
Start Up Scholarships
for advanced master’s students and Ph.D. students in an early stage of project formulation
Duration: 10 months
Monthly living stipend of € 1,200
Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop
Ph.D. Scholarships
for Ph.D. students enrolled in Ph.D. programs or admitted to an individual Ph.D. scheme
Duration: one to three years
Monthly living stipend of € 1,400
Yearly Students’ Conference
Dissertation Completion Scholarships
for advanced Ph.D. students
Duration: one year
Monthly living stipend of € 1,400
Yearly Students’ Conference
Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon
President, African Studies Association of Africa
Michael Goebel
Einstein Professor of Global History, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Peggy Levitt
Chair, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College
Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Co-Founder, Global (De)Centre
Noora Lori
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Steffen Mau
Professor of Macrosociology, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ranabir Samaddar
Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group
Jens Schneider
Senior Researcher at the Institute of Migration Studies and Intercultural Studies, Universität Osnabrück
Co-Founder, Global (De)Centre
Sören Urbansky
Head of Office & Research Fellow, Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at UC Berkeley
Visiting Professor, Department of History, Central European University Vienna
The last call for applications within this programme was open until 1 March 2023 and we do not plan any further application rounds within this funding framework. For further and future scholarship opportunities at the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, please visit our main website at https://www.zeit-stiftung.de/ and follow our Research and Scholarship team on LinkedIn at ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS Wissenschaft.
Application
PAULINE ADAM
Quantification Devices of Irregular Migration at the European Union Level: Between ´computational coalitions´ and Use in Migration Governance
Université Libre de Bruxelles / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
JOSEPHINE AKINYOSOVE
Black Politics, Activism and Identity in Western Europe: Negotiations, Continuities and Visions
University of Hamburg
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
OSCAR APONTE
The Roads to Rural Colonization: A Regional History of Putumayo, Colombia, 1893-1977
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
ERIC ELIKEM ASHIABI
Contested Citizenship and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Study of the Ewe and Mande Cross-Border Ethnic Groups in West Africa
University of Duisburg-Essen
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
PETER AWODI
Politics of Identity: Colonial Border Delineation, Belonging and the Securitization of the Anglophone People of Cameroon
University of Ibadan
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
LAURA CHARNEY
A Tale of Two Treaties: Adjudicating Canada’s Colonial Borderlands
McGill University
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
DAIGENGNA DUOER
Buddhism Beyond Nations and Empires: Mapping Transnational Buddhist Networks from Early Twentieth-Century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria
University of California Santa Barbara
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
WALID HABBAS
The Political Economy of the West Bank-Israeli Economic Relationship: Class and Sectoral Analysis
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
JACQUELIN KATANEKSZA
Running in the Shadows: Fugitive Movements Across and Beyond the Dark City
The New School
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
THEA KIRSCH
Care or Control? The Safety/Security Nexus and the Externalization of Europe's Borders
Freie Universität Berlin
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
MAGDALENE KLASSEN
Good Work: Jewish Sex Work and Transnational Human Rights Work, 1885 – 1931
Johns Hopkins University
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
ROMAIN LANNEAU
Respect for the Duty of Care and Data Quality a Guarantee for the Rule of Law in Asylum Procedure in the European Union
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
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ALEXANDER MAIER
Paper-Work: The Political Economy of Migration, Labor, and Documentation in Postsocialist Moscow
Columbia University
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
JAMES MEADOR
Making Chinese Orthodox
University of Michigan
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
NICHOLAS NYACHEGA
Borderlanders, Contested Sovereignties, and Everyday Life in North-Eastern Zimbabwe, c.1890s to 2021
University of Minnesota
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
ZORA PISKAČOVÁ
Torn Towns: Civic Elites between Local Belonging and Nationalization in Cieszyn and Český Těšín, 1919-1938
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
BURAK SAYIM
Transnational Communist Networks in the Post-WW1 Middle East: Anti-Colonialism, Internationalism and Itinerant Militancy, 1919-1928
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
LUKAS SCHMID
Enforcing Borders and Preventing Immigration: A Normative Appraisal on Two Levels
European University Institute, Florence
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
GIRMA DEFERE TEGEGN
Effects of Cross-Border Population Mobility on Environmental Resource Governance and Sustainability: Case of Ethio-Kenya
Jimma University
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
ANRAN WANG
The Model Borderland of Maoist China: Identity Politics and Ideological Contentions in Inner Mongolia, 1945-1966
Cornell University
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
ZAKARIA AL SHMALY
The Local Context of Refugee Political Socialisation: A Mixed-method Analysis of Syrian Refugees in Germany
United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology,
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
YAA OPAREBEA AMPOFO
Circuits of Sense-Making: A Study of Youth Experiences of Human-Earth Relations, Ecological Knowledge, and Environmental Change in Ghana
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
SAHAR BOSTOCK
Desert Colonization: Ottoman, British, and Zionist Development in Southern Palestine, 1830-1950
Columbia University in the City of New York,
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
LUNA CARRASQUER
Women Fight, Women Write: Renegotiating the Borders of the War Canon
Utrecht University, University of Oviedo,
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
ELERI CONNICK
The Diaspora as Cultural Creative Spaces
University of Amsterdam,
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
LINA GABRIELA CORTÉS
Artistic Productions of the Brazil-Uruguay Border: Mixed Portuñol
National University of San Martín,
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
ARNAB DUTTA
In Search of an Alternative Europe: Germanism in the Bengali Imagination, 1919–1945
University of Groningen,
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
KARL HEYER
Ambiguous Policy, Uneven Implementation, Discretionary Practices. A Situated Analysis of Fragmented Spatio-legal Bordering Dynamics in the post-2015 European Border and Migration Regime on Sicily
Universität Osnabrück,
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
MARQUISAR JEAN-JACQUES
Lines Drawn in the Sand: The Shifting Boundaries of Kali’na Territory at the Mouth of the Maroni River
Université de Guyane,
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
SUVI LENSU
Cosmopolitanism from the Margins – Embodied Migrations, Beauty and Belonging amongst Rwandan Cross-Border Sex Workers
The University of Edinburgh and Aarhus University,
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
DAVID MOTZAFI-HALLER
A Nation of Families among the Family of Nations: Upwardly Mobile Israeli Developers and their Families in the Middle East and Africa, 1926 – 1979
The Geneva Graduate Institute
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
SHREYA PARIKH
Race and Racialization in North Africa: The Case of Blackness in "Arab" Tunisia
L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
NAMA'A QUDAH
Paths of Displacement and Refuge: Tracing the Movement in Al Wehdat Camp in Amman, Jordan
Delft University of Technology,
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
ANDREAS STOIBER
The Social Life of Satellite Images – A Qualitative Research Project into the Work of Space-Eye and the Application of Artificial Intelligence for Supporting Sea Rescue Missions
University of Amsterdam,
Bucerius Strat Up Scholarship
SIMON TRUNK
Negotiating Life in between Empires: Debates on the Position, Possibilities and Belonging of Bosnian and Cypriot Muslims in Relation to the Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungarian and British Rule
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg,
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
LIN YI-HUI
Untangling China: Everyday Lives and Nation-Making
Utrecht University,
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
EMINA ZOLETIC
Intergenerational Transmission of the Memory of the War: The Cases of Families in Bosnia-Herzegovina
and the Bosnian Diaspora in Europe
University of Warsaw,
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
TIMOFEY BALIN
User-conceived Algorithmized Platform Interaction and the Production of Confidence and Trust on Telegram
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
LYDIA BARRETT
Sacred Songs from the Kitchen: Women's Participatory Performance and Bricolage Percussion in Trans-Saharan Perspective
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
MARIA BELÉN LÓPEZ
Environment and Care: Perceptions and Practices of Rural Migrant Women from the Reconquista Basin of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM)
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
MARIA BOWLING
Borderlands as the Nation's Margins: Decolonization, State-building and Language in Angola’s Forgotten South (1950s-2010s)
N.N.
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
SEBASTIAN CARLOTTI
Mobility or Immobility? The Complex Implementation of Legal Migration Channels between Europe and West Africa
Università di Pisa & University of Amsterdam
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
NABIL FERDAOUSSI
Border Hauntology: An Ethnography of Border Death and Disappearance at the EU-Moroccan Borders
University of Cape Town
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
YUN JUNG KIM
Bases and Borders of the Pacific: Migrant Labor, Medical Humanitarianism, and Asian Refugees
University of Minnesota
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
TIMOR LANDHERR
Border Politics Beyond Limits: Spatializing Externalization and the Production of Transit States
Queen Mary University of London
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
TESS MEGGINSON
Re-Imagining Europe’s Borders: The Mapping of Czechoslovakia, 1915–1920
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship
NICHOLAS NYACHEGA
Seeing like Borderlanders”: Border(lands) Controls, Mobilities, Contestations and Everyday Life in North-Eastern Zimbabwe, c.1890s to the Present
University of Minnesota
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
GABRIELLE ROBINSON-TILLENBURG
Border Crossing: Island Artists Defying US Military Occupation
University of Maryland College Park
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
LEON JONAS SCHLÜTER
Visions of the Border: Political Theory and the Displacement of Border Struggles
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship
LOUISE THATCHER
Spaces of Bordering along the Shipping Routes between Bremen and Australia across the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
Universität Potsdam
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
SAMUEL TSEGAI
Mapping Ethiopia: Sovereignty, Territoriality and Nationalism, 1855-1941
Queen's University
Bucerius Dissertation Completion Scholarship
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