2024-2025 Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Fellowship at the
Pontifical Gregorian University
 

In the context of the ongoing exchange program between the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome through its Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem through its Center for the Study of Christianity, we are pleased to announce a fellowship for visiting graduate students at the Pontifical Gregorian University for the Academic Year 2024-2025. The fellowship was initiated through the generous help of Hubert and Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn. It is offered for a period of one semester or two semesters.

AIM OF THE PROGRAMME
The programme aims at supporting work on a specific research project in connection with the unique opportunities provided in terms of academic programs, human resources and libraries at the Gregorian University and its affiliate institutions in Rome. Applicants have to have completed at least one year of graduate studies.

RESEARCH/STUDY/LECTURE REQUIREMENTS
Fellowship holders are required to participate in at least one course at the Gregorian University during either the Fall Semester (7 October 2024 – 17 January 2025) or the Spring Semester (17 February – 30 May 2025). They may be asked to report on work/research during a seminar or class session.

DETAILS OF THE AWARD
Fellowship holders will receive from the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies a cash award of EUR 5.600,00 library privileges for the Gregorian University and tuition for up to two courses or seminars. Fellowship holders are responsible for covering all remaining expenses.
They are required to make their own arrangements for housing and to reside in Rome during the entire period of their tenure.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Applicants are asked to provide the following documentation:
a.    A Curriculum Vitae, giving details of education and language skills and any information the applicant considers relevant;
b.    Transcripts of undergraduate and graduate studies;
c.    A letter of reference;
d.    A statement describing the studies to be undertaken during the term of the fellowship;
e.    Contact information i. Postal Address, ii. Phone number(s) iii. E-mail address.

REGISTRATION AT THE GREGORIAN
Fellowship recipients will need to fulfil all matriculation/registration requirements during the registration period (3 – 30 September 2024 for the Fall Semester and 18 December – 24 January 2025 for the Spring Semester).

APPLICATION DEADLINE
Deadline for applications is 07 June 2024. A decision will be announced by 14 June 2024. Exceptionally, late applications may be taken into consideration.
Please send applications to:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Center for the Study of Christianity, Faculty of Humanities, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. E-mail: csc@mail.huji.ac.il

Piazza della Pilotta, 4 – 00187 Rome Tel.: +39 06 6701.5522 – E-mail: judaicstudies@unigre.it
Web: www.unigre.it/en/judaic-studies/
 

 

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Hebrew University Graduate Fellows (2002-2022)

 

 

2021-2022

Shir Hoori, Art History Department

Oz Tamir, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

 

2020-2021

Ori Kinberg, Department of Hebrew Literature

 

2019-2020

Rebecca Eisenstadt, Institute of Archaeology

Tom Sela, Department of Comparative Religion

 

2017-2018

Mauricio Lapchik, Department of Comparative Religion

Abir Maliyanker, Department of Comparative Religion

 

2016-2017

Ofek Lavan, Italian Studies

Baruch Karlin, Comparative Religion

 

2015-2016

Shulamit Miller, Institute of Archaeology, Luxury, Prestige and Grandeur: the Mansions and Daily Life of the Social Elite of the Roman Near East during the 1st-6th c. C.E.

Shraga Bick, Comparative Religion

 

2013-2014

Daniel Salem, History

 

2012-2013

Liran Gordon, Philosophy, On the Possibility of Certainty in Human Cognition: Examination and Structural Comparison of St. Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus

Shulamit Miller, Institute of Archaeology, Luxury, Prestige and Grandeur: the Mansions and Daily Life of the Social Elite of the Roman Near East during the 1st-6th c. C.E.

 

2011-2012

Avner Ecker, Institute of Archaeology, The Urban Culture in Roman Syria-Palaestina and Arabia (74-284 AD)

Amitai Jacobsen, Comparative Religion, Patterns and Conventions of Mass Conversion of Jews to Christianity in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe

 

2009-2010

Yakir Paz, Talmud and Jewish Thought

Sarah Zweig, Comparative Religion, Imitatio Dei in  Neoplatonic Tradition 

 

2007-2008

Uri Gabbay, Ancient and Near Eastern Languages, Ancient Mesopotamian Liturgy

Sergey Minov, Comparative Religion, The Cave of Treasures in Context: Polemical Historiography and Formation of Syriac Christian Identity in the Fifth-Sixth Centuries

 

 

 

2002-2003

Eyal Poleg, Compartive Religion, On the Books of Maccabees: An Unpublished Poem by Geoffrey, Prior of the Templum Domini

Yossef Soffer, Comparative Religion

 

 

 

 

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Pontifical Gregorian University Graduate Fellows (2014-2022)

 

 

 

 

2021-2022

François Servera, Pontifical Biblical Institute

Wojciech Grzegorek, Pontifical Gregorian University

 

2019-2020

Iñaki Marro Sánchez, Pontifical Biblical Institute

 

2018-2019

Piotr Lukasz Bartoszek, Pontifical Gregorian University

 

2017-2018

Iosif Șandoru, Pontifical Gregorian University

 

2016-2017

Eric Rodrigues, Pontifical Gregorian University

Rebecca Cohen, Pontifical Gregorian University

 

2015-2016

Nazar Sloboda, Theology, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)

 

2014-2015

Tomasz Niedzwiedzki, Biblical Studies, Pontifical Biblical Institute, The Patriarch and the other in Targum

Pierre De Curraize, Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University