The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August.
There are no institutional, departmental, or national restrictions. Summer Deadline: 31 July Results: 10 August Winter Deadline: 30 November Results: 11 December All applicants who are unable to pay the application fee are welcome to take advantage of the fee waiver option on the application portal. Answers to common questions about the application process are provided in the FAQ section. In order to avoid delays, applicants are encouraged to read the FAQ carefully before writing to us with their questions.
Please do not submit your application material by email, as this would breach our impartiality rules and potentially invalidate your application. If you wish to update your application material, please upload your documents afresh using the same email address as your initial submission. Your dossier will then update automatically. Please also note that your application documents need to be uploaded together rather than separately.
In addition to the Laura Bassi Scholarship, the Bassi Foundation is also pleased to provide a small number of five-year postdoctoral grants each year.
For more information, please consult the Bassi Foundation's website. For a list of Bassi Scholars, past and present, including statements of research, please see below click to expand. Specifically, the manuscript addresses how Black cultural producers mobilize a patriarchal politic that centers cisgendered, heterosexual Black men as the basis for cultural thought and criticism. Spencier Ciaralli's project, Female Sexual History and Pleasure , aims to deconstruct and reframe our current understanding of female pleasure through the use of narratives of women speaking about their sexual history and pleasures, with a focus on how women conceptualize their own experience and compare it to dominant narratives.
