Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships 2027 – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships 2027. The Law & Anthropology Department provides a stimulating interdisciplinary discussion board the place each anthropologists and authorized students can interact with each other and conduct reducing-edge, coverage-related analysis linked to the intensification of exchanges and encounters amongst and between authorized methods, international locations and communities in in the present day’s societies.

With this comes a rising demand for empirically grounded (ethnographic) data and its translation – to the extent attainable – into normative considering at numerous ranges of resolution-making. The Department prioritizes analysis proposals that tackle this demand for translation within the more and more plural European context. The Law & Anthropology Department is providing positions for Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships.

Benefits

• The grants can be awarded for a interval of most 4 months. The Institute gives profitable candidates with a month-to-month residing stipend that’s not taxable and is freed from social safety obligations.

Eligibility

• Open to doctoral candidates within the ultimate stage of their programme. Priority can be given to candidates working in direction of PhDs in anthropology. 
• The Max Planck Society strives to make sure gender equality and variety.

Note:

• The fellow ought to be ready to take part within the actions of the Department through the fellowship interval, and is anticipated to submit a working paper that addresses the subject of his or her analysis. A presentation of the doctoral analysis can be included within the Department’s seminar collection.
• A transparent understanding have to be reached prematurely between the Director of the Department and the candidate’s principal supervisor relating to how the candidate can take fullest benefit of this era and the way the home college and the Max Planck Institute can collaborate in the very best pursuits of the candidate and of each establishments.

Application

Applicants are requested to submit the next supplies:

• cowl letter;
• curriculum vitae;
• writing pattern (chapter of the PhD dissertation);
• 1–2-web page abstract of the PhD work;
• photocopies of college levels and transcripts;
• a letter of advice from the principal supervisor confirming that the applicant is superior sufficient to finalize the doctoral manuscript throughout the interval financed by the Law & Anthropology Department (to be despatched on to the Department at: [email protected])

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships.