The result of The Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities Call of 2013 for DFF-Individual postdoctoral grants is hereby announced. A total of 15 grants have been awarded.
By the deadline of May 1st 2013 the Council had received 108 applications for DFF-Individual postdoctoral grants. The total amount applied for was approximately 200 mil. DKK.
Please be advised that the Council cannot be held responsible for printing errors and reserves the right to adjust the granted amounts listed. Changes to the granted amount may, for instance, be adjusted if overlapping grants are awarded from other funding sources, or if the overhead rate has been inaccurately applied. Specific requirements may also be attached to individual grants.
Grant letters and rejection letters will be sent out in October 2013. All correspondence will be sent to the e-mail address included on the electronic application form. On the basis of the conditions and evaluation criteria set out in the Call, the letters of rejection will contain a brief explanation pointing out the main academic reasons, why the grant has not been awarded. A few applications are on a waiting list. The applicants concerned will receive a notice.
Project Title: The Social Lives of Pointlessness - An Anthropological Study of Declared Nihilists in the Republic of Georgia
Grant Recipient: Martin Demant Frederiksen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,867,818
Project Title: The Political Life of Trees: A Comparative Exploration of the Political Entanglement of Humans and Trees among Indigenous Peoples and Radical Environmental Activists
Grant Recipient: Stine Krøijer
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,994,898
Project Title: Centrality and growth on Funen in the Late Iron Age and Viking Period
Grant Recipient: Lisbeth Eilersgaard Christensen
Place of Employment: Odense City Museums
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,386,494
Project Title: Mellem silke og skind - klædedragt, kreolisering og kulturmøder i Grønland 1700-1930
Grant Recipient: Peter Andreas Toft
Place of Employment: National Museum of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,820,765
Project Title: Wrestling with Archons: Gnosticism as a Critical Theory of Culture
Grant Recipient: Jonathan Cahana
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,840,529
Project Title: Priests, Prophets and Healers: The Expanded Catholic Roles within Latin America's Religious Field and the Ecclesiological Consequences
Grant Recipient: Jakob Egeris Thorsen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,928,694
Project Title: War Archives: Art, power, and historiography within today's globalized war paradigm
Grant Recipient: Solveig Gade
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,760,685
Project Title: Causality in the Sciences of the Mind and Brain
Grant Recipient: Lise Marie Andersen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,944,391
Project Title: Coping with Commercialization: Institutionalization in Medieval Commodity Trade and the Economic Integration of Northern Europe
Grant Recipient: Angela Ling Huang
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,102,764
Project Title: Colorblind? Theorizing Race in Danish Contemporary Art and Performance
Grant Recipient: Mathias Danbolt
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,753,056
Project Title: Illnesses of the Muslim heart: Contagion, purification, and protection among Salafi Muslims in Egypt
Grant Recipient: Christian Suhr Nielsen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,222,471
Project Title: The Linguistic Negotiation of Truth in Danish Criminal Trials
Grant Recipient: Sune Sønderberg Mortensen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,721,892
Project Title: The role of content and source credibility in campaigns combating obesity
Grant Recipient: Jens Koed Madsen
Place of Employment: Birkbeck University of London
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,414,000
Project Title: Kunstens poetik – om kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed
Grant Recipient: Anne Gry Haugland
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,532,745
Project Title: Imagining the North: place in contemporary Nordic comics (2000-2012)
Grant Recipient: Rikke Platz Cortsen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,642,395