PHD AND MPHIL STUDY OPPORTUNITIES
GENERAL INFORMATION | HOW TO APPLY | CURRENT PHD PROJECTS
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The Centre welcomes students to study for a PhD at Manchester University in all areas of its expertise (see details of Centre Staff and their research interests), and particularly in the areas of Jewish History and Literature in Late Antiquity (including Dead Sea Scrolls), Jewish Background to Christian Origins, Medieval Jewish Thought, Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Magic, Jewish-Christian Relations, Holocaust, Darwinism and Jewish Thought, Modern Anglo-Jewish History, Modern Jewish Thought. For details of archival and library holdings, see the Judaica collection held at the John Rylands Library.
Throughout your research degree you are also welcome to attend, without credit, any UG or PG courses.
Candidates may contact Professor Daniel Langton informally by email with an outline PhD proposal.
Degree awarded: PhD
Duration: 36 mths full-time
Entry requirements: A First class or Upper Second class honours degree plus a good Masters qualification is required, or the overseas equivalent.
Course fees: For entry in the academic year beginning September 2011, the tuition fees are as follows: PhD (full-time): UK/EU students (per annum): TBA; International students (per annum): £11,700; PhD (part-time):UK/EU students (per annum): TBA
For general fees information please visit: postgraduate fees.
Scholarships/sponsorships: See PhD Funding Opportunities.
Contact email: pg-religions@manchester.ac.uk
Contact telephone: +44 (0)161 275 3144
HOW TO APPLY
Here is a step-by-step guide to submitting a completed application form to the School:
Step 1: Please go to the Applicant's Guide to see what supporting documents you will need to submit with your application.
Step 2: Download a referee report form and send it to your referees (to those eligible for the AHRC competition *, this reference can also be used in support of the funding application - as opposed to you chasing a separate one).
Step 3: Complete the standard online application form - you might like to save this link as a favourite as once you have registered onto the form, you can go back and complete it at your leisure.
Step 4: You will then receive an email confirming that your application has been received. It would be helpful if you make a note of the ID Number you are given for any further queries you may have.
The admissions office will email you if any of your supporting documents are missing.
Step 5: You will be informed of our decision by email and post.
For any queries please call Andy on 0161 275 3144
*Information on funding applications such as AHRC funding can be found here. The deadline for AHRC funding is 1st March.
Supervisor: Philip Alexander
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2. Aron Sterk, The Epistola Anne ad Senecam
3. Katharina Keim, The Aggadot of the Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer and their relation to Second Temple Judaism
4. Rabbi Book, Traditions regarding the stones on the High Priest's breastplate
Supervisor: George Brooke
1. Dohnson Chang, Covenant Renewal in Second Temple Judaism
2. Marvin Miller, Jewish Epistolography in Second Temple Times
3. Jessica Keady, Purity and the Communities of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Socio-Historical Re-Evaluation of Classical Jewish Purity Systems with special reference to Gender Studies
4. Emily Duffy, A Study of 2 Maccabees: Narrative, Festival Performance and Reception
Supervisor: Adrian Curtis
1. Jennifer Williams, Approaches to Childlessness in the Hebrew Bible
Supervisor: Jean-Marc Dreyfus
1. Ion Popa, A History of Denial: The Orthodox Church, the State and the never-ending Road to Confession of Guilt after the Holocaust in Romania (1940-)
2. Richard Jackson, Holocaust memory and politics in Britain from the 1970’s
Supervisor: Cathy Gelbin
1. Heather Hilton, Holocaust and 9/11 Narratives
Supervisor: Daniel Langton
1. Simon Mayers, English Catholic Attitudes towards Jews and Anglo-Jewish Attitudes towards Catholics at the End of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
2. Francesca Frazer, Samuel Sandmel: Post-Holocaust US Communal Leader, New Testament Scholar, and Pioneer in Jewish-Christian Relations
3. Ros Livshin, Nonconformity in Minority Communities: Representations of the Anglo-Jewish Experience in the Oral Testimony Archive of the Manchester Jewish Museum
4. Susannah Byrom, Mormonism and Evolutionary Theory: A History
Supervisor: Alex Samely
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2. Andrew Wilshere: Rights and Responsibility: Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Liberalism