The Advisory Committee for the Evans Fund give notice that they intend to proceed to an election of an Evans Fellow or Fellows early in the Easter Term 2010.
A graduate of any university is eligible to apply for a Fellowship, provided that he or she intends to engage in research in anthropology and archaeology (broadly defined as ethnological, ethnographic or archaeological research) in relation to South-East Asia. Preference will be given to applicants who intend to engage in research in relation to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Thailand. The research shall contribute to the furtherance of the study of anthropology and archaeology in Cambridge. It is expected that the successful candidate(s) will either be based in Cambridge, or will spend a substantial period of time during or after their period of research in Cambridge.
The tenure of a Fellowship shall be for one or two years in the first instance as the Advisory Committee shall determine; candidates applying for election for an initial period of two years will be expected to be of postdoctoral status. A Fellow shall be eligible for re-election for a year at a time subject to a maximum tenure, save in exceptional circumstances, of three years in all; re-election shall be dependent on the receipt by the Advisory Committee by a specified date of a satisfactory report on the Fellow's diligence and progress in research during his or her tenure.
The stipend of a Fellow will be determined by the Advisory Committee at the time of the election, and will not exceed £6,000 a year.
The Advisory Committee may also be able to award a number of grants towards the costs of research in areas covered by the remit of the Fund, as outlined above.
Applications, together with an outline of the applicant's proposed scheme of travel and research, a curriculum vitae, and the names of two referees, must be sent to the Secretary, Evans Fund Advisory Committee, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF, so as to reach her not later than 1 March 2010. Application forms can be obtained from the Secretary (email: mmw23@cam.ac.uk), from whom further information is also available, and Department website: http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/.
The Advisory Committee reserves the right not to make an election.