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LSE Cities receives major grant to launch new Mellon Fellowship Programme at LSE in Cities and the Humanities

The LSE has been awarded a grant of US$900,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support a major new initiative within LSE Cities exploring the intersection of architecture, urbanism and the humanities.

The programme, which will run for approximately four years, will have two components: a Fellowship Programme to be based at LSE Cities (The Mellon Fellowship Programme at LSE in Cities and the Humanities) and a new project to launch a network of urban scholars (the Urban Research Network), which will be extended to centres on a global basis, including the USA, Asia and Latin America.

The intellectual objective of the programme is to connect humanities scholars from literature, philosophy, anthropology, film studies, art and architectural history more closely to urban research and teaching at the heart of LSE. It also aims to create an international network of institutions embedded in cities in rapidly urbanizing regions of the world that exposes a new generation of humanists to the social science urban culture.

The Mellon Fellows will be invited to spend nine months at LSE, to engage humanists in the study of urban life – as pursued by LSE Cities – and to become involved in postgraduate teaching and research.  The posts will be advertised in spring 2013, with the first Fellowships starting in autumn 2013. The project will be overseen by Professors Ricky Burdett and Richard Sennett and involve key teaching and research staff at LSE Cities.

For more information, see the press release (pdf).

 
 
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