ASMI offers a wide range of opportunities for postgraduate students.
First of all, its conferences and events, such as the Annual International Conference and the annual ASMI Postgraduate Summer School (see below), represent good occasions to develop contacts with scholars and academics working in related fields and to maintain networks with the most important institutions and associations in Italian Studies.
Secondly, ASMI gives postgraduate students advantageous opportunities to be published in the journal Modern Italy.
In addition, the ASMI Postgraduate Essay Prize has been designed specifically for postgraduate students as a means to encourage their research and publish their work.
Finally, ASMI offers the Christopher Duggan Postgraduate Travel Bursaries. Competition for these bursaries, in commemoration of Professor Christopher Duggan, is open to members of ASMI who are either (1) postgraduate students currently registered for a higher degree at a university in the United Kingdom or (2) early career scholars who have completed a PhD within two years of the deadline for application and have no access to other sources of funding. Applicants working in any field covered by ASMI may apply for a sum of up to £500. Awards are made twice a year. The deadlines for submission are 20 January and 20 May.
Please send your application to: [email protected]
The ASMI Postgraduate Essay Prize will be awarded to an outstanding piece of unpublished work by a postgraduate student, dealing with some aspect of modern Italian history, society, or politics in the period between c. 1780 and the present.
The winner of the 2018 prize, announced at the ASMI conference in November, is Caterina Scalvedi, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, for her essay 'Catholic Missionaries in Italian Somalia: Baptisms, Education, and the "Problem" of Meticci (1924–1930)'. The deadline for submissions for the 2019 prize is 31 July.
University of Warwick 21 – 22 June, 2018
Joint winners of the 2017 prize, announced at the ASMI conference in December, were Sarah Culhane, formerly of the University of Bristol, for her essay ‘Locating the audience within the pages of a fan magazine: the audience-star relation as told through Hollywood (1945–1953)’, and Glauco Schettini, of Fordham University, for his essay 'Building the Third Rome: The New District in Prati di Castello, 1870–95'. The deadline for submissions for the 2018 prize is 31 July.