PhD Scholarships in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham
AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students
The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C DTP) is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. M3C is awarding up to 87 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2017 entry. M3C provides research candidates with expert supervision (including opportunities for cross-institutional supervision), research training and access to a wide range of facilities, cohort events and placement opportunities with regional, national and international partners in the creative and cultural sectors.

The Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:
•             African-American Literature, History and Culture
•             American Art and Visual Culture
•             American Intellectual History
•             American Labor History
•             American Music
•             American Popular Culture
•             American Political History
•             American Print Culture and Book History
•             Asian-American Literature and Culture
•             Canadian Literature and Culture
•             Civil Rights and  Social Justice
•             Contemporary American Fiction
•         Crime, Prisons and Criminal Justice
•             Latino Culture
•             Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
•             U.S. Foreign Policy
For more information on the Department of American and Canadian Studies and its Postgraduate Research programme contact matthew.pethers@nottingham.ac.uk
The deadline for M3C funding applications is 16 January 2017, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted to the home university on the correct M3C form.
For full details of eligibility, funding, proposal-writing workshops and research supervision areas (including use of the supervision search tool) please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk