Graduate Student Opportunity
Dr. Justin Fantauzzo is accepting applications to work on his project, Europe’s Fringe: Identity, Culture, and Borders in First World War Macedonia, 1914-18, as a History M.A. student. The position will commence in Fall 2016.
Europe’s Fringe will explore the contemporary and retrospective writings – correspondence, diaries, soldier-produced newspapers, memoirs – of British and Dominion soldiers who served along the Macedonian Front during the First World War. The goal of Europe’s Fringe is to understand how men from the British Empire, both from the working-class rank and file and middle-upper class officers, imagined ‘European’ borders. Wartime Macedonia is a particularly fascinating case study, as it was home to an eclectic mix of Slavs, Greeks, and Turks, Orthodox Christians, Sunni Muslims, and Sephardic Jews. By considering how Europeans themselves established borders, some real, some imaginary, this project will show that the racial ‘other’ was not always to be found in the exotic Middle East, the wilds of Africa, or the alluring mega-cities of India. The ‘other’ could, instead, be found within Europe itself.
The successful M.A. applicant will be provided with up to $8,300 in funding, will accompany Dr. Fantauzzo on a research trip to the Brotherton Special Collection Library at Leeds University, England, and will have the opportunity to co-author a publication(s) with Dr. Fantauzzo.
All interested applicants should contact Justin Fantauzzo (jfantauzzo@mun.ca) and are encouraged to visit http://www.mun.ca/history/graduate/faq.php to learn more about our Department.
Please note that prospective students must follow the formal application process for graduate school at Memorial University. For more information, go to http://www.mun.ca/sgs/home/. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2015.