(Source: UvA)
We learned
of a postdoctoral fellowship on refugees and early modern states at the
University of Amsterdam.
JOB
DESCRIPTION
The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) currently has a vacant
Postdoctoral position as part of the NWO-funded VICI Project The
Invention of the Refugee in Early Modern Europe, led by professor Geert
Janssen. ASH is one of the six research schools under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.
Project
description
This
Postdoctoral project Refugees and Early Modern States is one
of five closely-related projects, which together aim to analyse the invention
of the refugee in early modern Europe. Funded through a VICI-grant of the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the programme seeks to
achieve three inter-related objectives:
- To explain the emergence of the
refugee as a social category in European society.
- To identify the agency of
displaced religious minorities in forging transnational solidarity networks.
- To uncover the impact of
refugees on European state formation.
The
Postdoctoral researcher will study objective 3 by examining how the protection
and accommodation of displaced men and women interacted with the ambitions of
early modern authorities to expand their territories and forge confessional
regimes. She/he will work closely with three PhD’s and the PI. A detailed
research outline on the project, including potential source material, may be
obtained from the PI Geert Janssen.
Tasks of
the Postdoctoral researcher will include:
- participating in meetings of
the project research group and developing a shared database;
- presenting intermediate
research results at workshops and conferences, and delivering at least two
peer reviewed articles;
- organizing knowledge dissemination
activities;
- organizing an international
conference on early modern refugees and (co-)editing a collection of
essays;
- contributing to teaching
courses in early modern history.
REQUIREMENTS
The successful
applicant must have:
a PhD in
Early Modern History;
excellent
research skills, demonstrated by a track record of publishing in high-ranking
journals and/or with leading presses or a demonstrable capacity to develop such
a record;
astrong
cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research;
enthusiasm
for communicating academic research to non-academic audiences;
proficiency
in English.
More
information can be found here
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