AIAS Monograph Fellowship
The Carlsberg Foundation offers one-year full-time fellowships for researchers within the humanities or social sciences with a project aimed at producing a ground-breaking monograph or advanced Danish doctoral dissertation.
For successful Carlsberg Monograph Fellowships grant holders, AIAS offers up to five AIAS Monograph Fellowships. The successful grant holders will be provided with optimal working conditions in the AIAS building.
AIAS Monograph Fellows will have the opportunity to engage with the interdisciplinary and international community at AIAS, while having ample, free time to write the monograph or doctoral dissertation. Monograph fellows are offered a quiet office space, participation in AIAS Monday and Wednesday lunch and Friday breakfast, the option to participate in all AIAS academic and social activities and excellent administrative support.
AIAS welcomes successful Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship grant holders from all Danish universities. The AIAS Monograph fellowship does not include funding, and grant holders will keep their employment within their home institution.
You can apply to combine your Carlsberg Monograph fellowship with an AIAS fellowship after you have been awarded the grant from The Carlsberg Foundation. You do not need a hosting letter from AIAS to submit with your application to Carlsberg.
AIAS application process
No later than Monday March 2, 2026, applicants must send the following to Lotte Holm (lho@aias.au.dk):
- A short letter of interest (one page) where you describe how it will be beneficial to your Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship to be hosted at AIAS.
- The abstract of your monograph proposal.
In the final selection of applications, AIAS will prioritize a diversity of researchers from different academic fields and universities.
Important dates:
- 1 October 2025: Deadline to apply to Carlsberg (applicants can expect an answer from Carlsberg in the period from December to January)
- 2 March 2026: Deadline to apply to AIAS
- 18 March 2026: Applicants will receive an answer from AIAS
AIAS has hosted the following Carlsberg Monograph fellows:
From 2025-2026
- Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project: ‘Rhythms of Reading’ - Christian Ulrik Andersen, School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project: ‘Minor Tech’ - Donna Briggs Bødtkjer, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project: ‘Thomas Bartholin’s discovery of the human lymphatic vasculature’ - Mathias Clasen, School of Communication and Culture, Department of English, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project: ‘The Master of Fear: Why Stephen King Became Everybody’s Favorite Boogeyman’ - Samuel Schindler, Department of Mathematics - Science Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project: ‘Scientific Discovery: Its Nature, Social Function, and Future’ - Susanne Ravn, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark
Project: ‘Towards a Phenomenology of Movement Praxis’
From 2024-2025
- Rune Stubager, Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, fellowship period 1 March 2024 – 28 February 2025
- Brad Wray, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics – Science Studies, Aarhus University, fellowship period 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025
- Carsten Levisen, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Art, Roskilde University, fellowship period 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025
- Peter Dalsgaard, Professor, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, fellowship period 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025
From 2023-2024
- Iben Have, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University, fellowship period 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024
- Louise Fabian, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, fellowship period 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024
- Maria Louw, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, fellowship period 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024
