Dan Levene awarded AHRC Fellowship
Dr Dan Levene (History/Parkes) has been awarded what is probably the first Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship in Humanities at Southampton.
Dr Dan Levene
(History/Parkes) has been awarded what is probably the first AHRC Fellowship in the School of Humanities at Southampton (the scheme which replaced the Matching Leave Scheme) for a project on 'A Corpus of Curses: Aggressive Incantation Texts in Jewish Aramaic from Late Antiquity'.
Dan comments: "Essentially this will allow me to finish a book though a number of other outcomes, including a popular publication and some presentations."
The fellowship is worth £72,177.
Image:
Curse bowl (M102), see Levene, Dan,
A Corpus of Magic Bowls: Incantation Texts in Jewish Aramaic from Late Antiquity
(London: Kegan Paul, 2003), pp. 45-51.