CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Postdoc 2026-2027 (Paris: Alliance Sorbonne Université/Initiative Europe, DEADLINE 14 MAY 2026)

 

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Abstract:

Ce projet devra s’inscrire dans l’un des Pôles et des axes de l’Initiative Europe : https://initiative-europe.sorbonne-universite.fr/poles-et-axe-de-recherche L’Initiative Europe vise à encourager les collaborations intellectuelles entre différents collègues de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université. Dès lors, les projets devront s’inscrire dans une forme d’interdisciplinarité. Le candidat ou la candidate devra avoir préalablement pris contact avec une ou un directeur de recherche intégré à l’Initiative Europe, qui doit donner son accord écrit afin d’être référent(e) pendant la durée du projet. Le/la post-doctorant(e) recruté(e) devra s’insérer dans les activités collectives de l’Initiative Europe.

 Les tâches suivantes pourront lui être demandées :

Organiser un séminaire annuel de l’Initiative Europe
Collaborer avec des équipes de recherche de différentes disciplines
Publier les résultats de sa recherche dans des revues académiques et les présenter lors de conférences internationales
Contribuer à la création et au dépôt d’un projet de recherche (ANR, ERC, Horizons, COST).
Coordonner la diffusion des travaux avec l’Initiative Europe, en particulier avec les Presses de Sorbonne Université
Participer aux différents événements de valorisation du travail post-doctoral : Fête de la science, journée de formation doctorale, écoles thématiques, etc.
Rédiger un rapport détaillé des résultats à la fin du contrat.

 Calendar:

Entre le 26 mars et le 14 mai 2026 : dépôt des projets de post-doctorat par les candidat(e)s. Phase 1, entre le 3 et le 15 mai : examen des dossiers par le Directoire de l’Initiative. Phase 2, le 26 mai : sélection des candidats jugés admissibles après audition. Début du contrat au 1er septembre 2026.

Mandatory files:

 CV détaillé du candidat. Projet de recherche s’insérant dans les axes et priorités de l’Initiative de 4 à 5 pages, bibliographie comprise, comprenant des propositions précises pour l’animation de la recherche au sein de l’Initiative. Lettre de soutien d’une directrice ou d’un directeur de recherche au sein de l’Initiative Europe.

Procedure:

Les projets post-doctoraux sont à envoyer directement par les doctorant(e)s ou docteurs depuis moins de 3 ans à l’adresse suivante : initiative-europe@sorbonne-universite.fr, en mettant en copie : celine.spector@sorbonne-universite.fr et laurent.warlouzet@sorbonne-universite.fr

Read more here. 

 

 

VACANCY: 30 month Postdoctoral researcher in Legal History (ERC Consolidator Grant IsThisFrench) (Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux) [DEADLINE 16 APR 2026]

 

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Abstract:

The aim of this research project, led by Professor Xavier Prévost, is to place Renaissance Legal humanism in its European context in order to understand the construction of legal nationalisms hidden behind the expression “French method of teaching law” (mos gallicus jura docendi). The recruited researcher will work in close collaboration with the principal investigator and the engineer in digital humanities. The initial task will be to populate a historiographical database, followed by the drafting of two articles on the links between Legal humanism and French legal nationalism.

Read more here. 

VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 NOV 2025)

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 Description:

The Faculty of Law invites applications for a fixed term employment as a postdoctoral researcher from 1.1.2026 to 31.12.2026. The post is linked to the project Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires, led by Docent Adriana Luna-Fabritius and funded by the Research Council of Finland.

 

The successful candidate will work with Dr Luna-Fabritius and the project team, developing an individual research agenda aligned with the project’s focus on early modern labour governance, coerced labour, legal reforms, patriarchal structures and police regulations across the Portuguese and British empires.

 

The work will include:

• Collect and analyse relevant archival and bibliographical material for the project.
• Produce at least one single-authored, peer-reviewed journal article/or book chapter per year.
• Co-author at least one academic output with the PI or another team member per year.
• Organise and participate in the international conference and contribute to the editing of the resulting volume.
• Teach or co-teach (up to 10% of annual workload).
• Contribute actively to the project and the host institution’s research community.

 

Eligibility and assessment

 

Applicants must hold a PhD (candidates who are in the final stages of completing their doctoral dissertation may also be considered), demonstrate the ability to conduct independent research, and have prior experience of academic publishing (teaching experience is an advantage). A research proposal aligned with the project is expected.

 

Candidates are expected to reside in Helsinki, attend on-site activities regularly, and participate actively in project events. Postdoctoral researchers have a teaching load of 10% of their annual working time, corresponding roughly with one or two courses of 20 hours contact teaching. 

 

Evaluation criteria

• Ability to develop research independently and collaboratively.
• Knowledge and/or experience in intellectual history, legal history, labour history, imperial history, cameral sciences, public law, or science of police in Early Modern period.
• Familiarity with relevant theoretical frameworks (e.g. rights formation, political economy, legal practices, governance and patriarchal regimes in colonial contexts).
• For postdoctoral applicants: a record of peer-reviewed publications.
• Excellent command of English. For work requiring Portuguese sources, proficiency in Portuguese is highly desirable (Spanish is an asset).

 

What we offer

 

The salary for the position will be based on level 5 of the job requirement scheme for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee will be paid a salary component based on personal performance. The annual gross salary is €42,000 - €46,000. There will be a six-month trial period for the position.

 

How to apply

 

The application must be accompanied by the following documents in PDF format:

• a cover letter;

• a curriculum vitae;

• a numbered list of publications (highlight two key items)

• a research plan (max. 4 pages), explaining how your project aligns with Labour Evolution project, including objectives, methodological and theoretical approach, deliverables, and a publication plan. 

• Contact details for one referee and/or one letter of reference

 

Further information about academic portfolios is available on our website.

Other attachments or certificates are not required at this point.

 

Applications must be submitted through the University of Helsinki electronic recruitment system by clicking on the link below. Current employees of the University of Helsinki must submit their applications through SAP Fiori’s Suffeli recruitment portal. The University of Helsinki welcomes applicants from a variety of genders, linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and minorities.

 

Further information about the position can be obtained from Docent Adriana Luna-Fabritius (adriana.fabritius(at)helsinki.fi). Further information about the recruitment process can be obtained from HR Specialist Mella Mattila (mella.mattila(at)helsinki.fi).

 

 

 

The Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki is the leading Finnish institute of legal education. Some of the degrees awarded by the Faculty are completed at its bilingual Vaasa Unit of Legal Studies. The Faculty's mission is to train qualified, ethically resposible legal professionals for both the Finnish and international markets through research of an international standard and research-based teaching. The Faculty offers undergraduate degrees in Finnish, Swedish and English as well as a bilingual degree in Swedish and Finnish.The Faculty has a teaching and research staff of around 120 people and 2,400 undergraduate and postgraduate students.

More information here. 

JOB: Postdoc position in history of ius commune (Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University, DEADLINE: 13 October 2025)

The Centre for Ius Commune at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland) is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Starting Grant project "PetrIUS: Petrification of ius commune through printed paratexts".

Between the 1460s and 1620s, printed editions of canon and civil law texts witnessed a constant development of marginal paratexts, such as glosses, summaries, cases or commentaries. They were added to authoritative legal sources because the printers were interested in improving the quality and attractiveness of new source editions. They often hired legal experts who offered them new tools, resources, and ideas. These were incorporated into printed books using new printing techniques. In consequence, the dynamic between improved new editions and advances in printing enterprise fueled the ongoing development of printed legal books. Various questions concerning the origin, transmission, and influence of paratexts are embedded in the interplay between sources and marginalia, manuscripts and printing, editors and printers, and books and their readers. PetrIUS has an innovative approach for shifting the focus from source (text) to marginalia (paratexts). PetrIUS aims to examine how print and its evolution helped to petrify – that is, consolidate – landmark achievements of late medieval ius commune. This is done by enabling some doctrinal accounts to be transferred into marginalia of source editions. The novelty brought about by print affected legal science and communication. PetrIUS will acknowledge how legal experts employed novel technical tools to transfer the heritage of medieval law into early modern source editions and how these processes affected patterns of scientific work and the transfer of knowledge in academia. To do so, PetrIUS will implement typical legal and book history tools as well as natural language processing techniques. The latter enables detailed comparisons between paratexts’ printed editions and their reception in the scholarly literature. The research will conclude with a legal theoretical study that assesses the early modern significance of paratexts by treating them as the media of law, that is, the means of legal communication.

The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the implementation of the project by studying the printed paratexts of the corpus iuris civilis. Their work will focus primarily on two main work packages related to these printed paratexts: classification of types and functions of paratexts added to printed corpora iuris (WP1) and petrification of late medieval ius commune taking the form of printed paratexts in corpora iuris (WP5).

This is a full-time position for 45 months (including 6 months probation period) starting December 2025.

For more information on the call and on the project do not hesitate to contact the project PI, Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz[at]amu.edu.pl).

More information on the call can be found here.

VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher on ERC "Communicating the Law in Europe" (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, DEADLINE 13 FEB 2024)

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Applications are sought for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work with Dr Arthur der Weduwen, conducting research for an ERC-selected, UKRI-funded project entitled Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 (COMLAWEU). The project is based in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. The PDRA will be expected to work closely together with Dr der Weduwen and the rest of the project group, composed of one other full-time PDRA and two PhD students. 

 

The COMLAWEU project is a five-year project that investigates how law was communicated to citizens and subjects by the authorities in early modern Europe (1500-1750). It pursues an original comparative study of the publication and circulation of municipal, regional and national law, encompassing oral communication, ceremonial proclamations and the employment of criers, as well as the affixing, distribution and sale of law texts, in manuscript and printed form. Based on extensive archival research, this project will seek to establish for the first time to what extent the increasing body of law that was issued in early modern Europe was made publicly available, and in what forms. The project seeks to add a new and much-needed perspective to the study of European politics in a critical era of state formation, framing the communication of law as an essential stabilising factor in an era of highly participatory but undemocratic politics. This project will offer multiple comparative frameworks through which the communication of law will be studied, including Protestant and Catholic states, urban and rural areas, and empires, national kingdoms and city-states. With the aid of such a comparative lens, it is an overarching aim of the project to analyse how the public dissemination of law shaped early modern civic society and influenced political participation and accountability.

 

The successful applicant will hold (or, at time of application, be very near to completion of) a PhD in the field of early modern political, legal, book or communication history, with expertise in the history of France, Italy, the Holy Roman Empire or Poland-Lithuania. They will have working fluency in French, Italian, German and/or Polish, and excellent communication skills in English. Reading competency in Latin will also be an advantage.

 

Under the overall framework of the project, the PDRA will focus on the communication of law in early modern France, the Italian peninsula, the Holy Roman Empire or Poland-Lithuania. This will include fieldwork in archives and libraries away from St Andrews, as well as cataloguing and source analysis in St Andrews, using digital resources and data gathered by the team. The PDRA will co-organise one workshop or conference, co-edit a special issue of a journal or a conference volume, and write and co-author other publications arising from the project’s activities. They will also participate more generally in the project’s communication and outreach activities, which may include contributing to the project website. They will be expected to support the PhD students involved with the project, and to play a collegiate role in the academic life of the School of History and its USTC/Book History group.

 

The post is available for 3.5 years (42 months), to commence on 1 September 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter. 

 

Employees of the University have access to a wide range of staff benefits including:

• Annual leave of 34 days, plus 5 public holidays
• Membership of the SLAS Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
• A hybrid working environment, including partial homeworking where appropriate and a range of family friendly policies 
• Staff discount scheme for local and national goods and services
• Free staff parking, employee Carshare and Cycle to Work Schemes and subsidised local bus travel
• Subsidised sports membership, reduced tuition fees on degree programmes for staff/children of staff, access to library facilities, salary sacrifice scheme and a range of wellbeing initiatives 

Candidates who wish to find out further details about the project or the post are encouraged to contact Dr Arthur der Weduwen (adw7@st-andrews.ac.uk).  

 

Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in research posts at the University.  

 

Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the St Andrews experience.  We strive to create a fair and inclusive culture demonstrated through our commitment to diversity awards (Athena Swan, Carer Positive, LGBT Charter and Race Charters). We celebrate diversity by promoting profiles of BAME, LGBTIQ+ staff and supporting networks including the Staff BAME Network; Staff with Disabilities Network; Staff LGBTIQ+ Network; and the Staff Parents & Carers Network.  Full details available online: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/

 

Closing Date:  13 February 2024

 

Interview Date:  12 March 2024

Please quote ref:  AR2933SB

 

Further Particulars:  AR2933SB FPs.doc

 

School of History

Salary: £30,487 - £36,024 per annum

Start: 1 September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter

Fixed term for 3.5 years

Read more here.

EXTENDED DEADLINE, JOB OFFER: Postdoctoral researcher digital legal history - Tilburg University [Job Closing Date: 17 November 2023]

  

Tilburg University | Tilburg Law School

is looking for a 

Postdoctoral researcher digital legal history

 

Department: Public Law & Governance
Location: Tilburg
Scientific area: legal history, digital humanities
Full time equivalent: 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week). 
Duration of employment contract: 24 months, renewable 
Monthly full-time salary: € 4.332- € 5.929 gross 
Job Closing Date: 17 November 2023    

 

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with skills in digital humanities, to work with us as part of the CaPANES-project (ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty’). This project addresses economic sovereignty of commercial cities in the period of c. 1400-c. 1620. You will be part of a vibrant team of fourteen legal historians, within the Department of Public Law and Governance.  

 

Job Description 
As postdoctoral researcher you will be responsible for the development and assessment of social network analyses that will be part of the ongoing research within the CaPANES-project. The CaPANES project integrates network analysis as a method to study contacts and diplomatic relations between trading cities in Western Europe. In addition, the dispersal and use of concepts will be combined with prosopographical data (semantic social network analysis). Moreover, the postdoctoral researcher will set up agent-based models for testing the interactions and loops between variables of intra-city developments. Within cities, social, economic and political phenomena had an impact on the self-perception of the city in terms of their sovereignty and autonomy. You will publish on the use of digital methods to answer legal-historical questions. 

 

You will be working within the Department of Public Law and Governance. The CaPANES-project is part of the theme ‘Urban Constitutionalism’, which is one of the axes of the Signature Plan ‘Global Law and Governance’. The PLG Department hosts legal scholars, sociologists and governance scholars. PLG is a welcome environment for interdisciplinary research. 

 

What do we ask? 
Tilburg University is curious about how you can contribute to our research, education, impact, and to the team you will be part of. Therefore, we would like to get the best possible picture of your knowledge, insight, skills, and personality. Below you can find the qualifications we consider important for the position.

• You have a PhD on a legal-historical, political-historical or institutional-historical topic, preferably for the later Middle Ages or early modern period
• You have knowledge of digital humanities’ methods, in particular social-network analysis; if not acquired already, you are willing to learn agent-based modelling
• You have high proficiency of English, and are willing to learn Dutch
• You have a portfolio of international, peer reviewed publications
• You demonstrate scientific integrity 
• You will contribute to an open and inclusive organizational culture
• You have team spirit: you feel part of a team and express this through collaboration, sharing knowledge and experiences, and contributing to an open and inclusive work environment.

 

To maintain a vibrant and active university community, it is important that we meet each other regularly and that the connection between us remains good. Therefore, the premise is that all staff members carry out their work in the Netherlands.

 

What do we offer?
Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment with attention to flexibility and room for (personal) development. We recognize and reward our employees and encourage the use of talents and strengths.

 

Tilburg University is committed to an open and inclusive culture, embracing diversity, and encouraging the mutual integration of groups of staff and students. We create equal opportunities for all our staff and students so that everyone feels at home in our university community. 

 

We work in a vibrant and lively (work) environment on our beautiful campus, close to the forest and easily accessible by public transport. We are committed to a sustainable society and challenge you to make an active contribution to this. 

 

For this position, we offer:

• A position based on 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week);
• It is a vacancy for 2 years (one time renewable, max. duration 32 months);
• A salary of minimum 4.332 € and maximum 5.929 € gross per month for full time employment, based on UFO profile Researcher 3 and salary scale 11 of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system for salary scaling that is based on relevant education and work experience;
• Vacation allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%);
• Vacation days (41 days for a 40-hour work week);
• Full reimbursement of commuting expenses for sustainable travel: walking, biking and public transportation;
• Moving allowance;
• Options Model for benefits and reimbursement of expenses;
• Employees from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a tax-free allowance of 30% of their taxable wages. We will apply for this reimbursement for you;
• You will be enrolled in the General Pension Fund for Public Employers (ABP) through us;
• Various training courses, for example in leadership skills, personal effectiveness, and career development;
• A wide range of amenities and facilities and various arrangements to create an optimal work-life balance.

 

Visit working at Tilburg University for more information on our terms of employment. 

Information and application

We invite you to apply online for this position by 17 November 2023 (23:59 CET). 
More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. Dave De ruysscher, d.deruysscher@tilburguniversity.edu. 

 

Please attach the following documents to the application:

1. cover letter
2. CV
3. official copy of your PhD degree
4. best publication and publication list
5. contact information of at least two referees (including name, phone number, and e-mail address). 

 

The first selection interviews will take place in late November 2023. Tilburg Law School uses structured interviews and part of this is a permanent appointment advisory committee. This committee consists of the following members:  

1. Prof. D. De ruysscher, professor of legal history, PI of the CaPANES project      
2. Dr M. den Hollander, assistant-professor legal history      
3. Gaby Coenen, manager of the PLG Department      

 

Ideally, you will start working for Tilburg University on 2 January 2024. 

More information here.

REMINDER JOB OFFER: Postdoctoral researcher digital legal history - Tilburg University [Job Closing Date: 4 November 2023]

 

Tilburg University | Tilburg Law School

is looking for a 

 

Postdoctoral researcher digital legal history

 

Department: Public Law & Governance
Location: Tilburg
Scientific area: legal history, digital humanities
Full time equivalent: 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week). 
Duration of employment contract: 24 months, renewable 
Monthly full-time salary: € 4.332- € 5.929 gross 
Job Closing Date: 4 November 2023    

 

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with skills in digital humanities, to work with us as part of the CaPANES-project (ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty’). This project addresses economic sovereignty of commercial cities in the period of c. 1400-c. 1620. You will be part of a vibrant team of fourteen legal historians, within the Department of Public Law and Governance.  

 

Job Description 
As postdoctoral researcher you will be responsible for the development and assessment of social network analyses that will be part of the ongoing research within the CaPANES-project. The CaPANES project integrates network analysis as a method to study contacts and diplomatic relations between trading cities in Western Europe. In addition, the dispersal and use of concepts will be combined with prosopographical data (semantic social network analysis). Moreover, the postdoctoral researcher will set up agent-based models for testing the interactions and loops between variables of intra-city developments. Within cities, social, economic and political phenomena had an impact on the self-perception of the city in terms of their sovereignty and autonomy. You will publish on the use of digital methods to answer legal-historical questions. 

 

You will be working within the Department of Public Law and Governance. The CaPANES-project is part of the theme ‘Urban Constitutionalism’, which is one of the axes of the Signature Plan ‘Global Law and Governance’. The PLG Department hosts legal scholars, sociologists and governance scholars. PLG is a welcome environment for interdisciplinary research. 

 

What do we ask? 
Tilburg University is curious about how you can contribute to our research, education, impact, and to the team you will be part of. Therefore, we would like to get the best possible picture of your knowledge, insight, skills, and personality. Below you can find the qualifications we consider important for the position.

• You have a PhD on a legal-historical, political-historical or institutional-historical topic, preferably for the later Middle Ages or early modern period
• You have knowledge of digital humanities’ methods, in particular social-network analysis; if not acquired already, you are willing to learn agent-based modelling
• You have high proficiency of English, and are willing to learn Dutch
• You have a portfolio of international, peer reviewed publications
• You demonstrate scientific integrity 
• You will contribute to an open and inclusive organizational culture
• You have team spirit: you feel part of a team and express this through collaboration, sharing knowledge and experiences, and contributing to an open and inclusive work environment.

 

To maintain a vibrant and active university community, it is important that we meet each other regularly and that the connection between us remains good. Therefore, the premise is that all staff members carry out their work in the Netherlands.

 

What do we offer?
Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment with attention to flexibility and room for (personal) development. We recognize and reward our employees and encourage the use of talents and strengths.

 

Tilburg University is committed to an open and inclusive culture, embracing diversity, and encouraging the mutual integration of groups of staff and students. We create equal opportunities for all our staff and students so that everyone feels at home in our university community. 

 

We work in a vibrant and lively (work) environment on our beautiful campus, close to the forest and easily accessible by public transport. We are committed to a sustainable society and challenge you to make an active contribution to this. 

 

For this position, we offer:

• A position based on 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week);
• It is a vacancy for 2 years (one time renewable, max. duration 32 months);
• A salary of minimum 4.332 € and maximum 5.929 € gross per month for full time employment, based on UFO profile Researcher 3 and salary scale 11 of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system for salary scaling that is based on relevant education and work experience;
• Vacation allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%);
• Vacation days (41 days for a 40-hour work week);
• Full reimbursement of commuting expenses for sustainable travel: walking, biking and public transportation;
• Moving allowance;
• Options Model for benefits and reimbursement of expenses;
• Employees from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a tax-free allowance of 30% of their taxable wages. We will apply for this reimbursement for you;
• You will be enrolled in the General Pension Fund for Public Employers (ABP) through us;
• Various training courses, for example in leadership skills, personal effectiveness, and career development;
• A wide range of amenities and facilities and various arrangements to create an optimal work-life balance.

 

Visit working at Tilburg University for more information on our terms of employment. 

Information and application

We invite you to apply online for this position by 3 November 2023 (23:59 CET). 
More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. Dave De ruysscher, d.deruysscher@tilburguniversity.edu. 

 

Please attach the following documents to the application:

1. cover letter
2. CV
3. official copy of your PhD degree
4. best publication and publication list
5. contact information of at least two referees (including name, phone number, and e-mail address). 

 

The first selection interviews will take place on 10 November 2023. Tilburg Law School uses structured interviews and part of this is a permanent appointment advisory committee. This committee consists of the following members:  

1. Prof. D. De ruysscher, professor of legal history, PI of the CaPANES project      
2. Dr M. den Hollander, assistant-professor legal history      
3. Gaby Coenen, manager of the PLG Department      

 

Ideally, you will start working for Tilburg University on 2 January 2024. 

More information here.

VACANCY: Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University (DEADLINE: 18 December 2023)

(Source: Yale University)

International Security Studies at Yale University has a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellowship.

International Security Studies (ISS) welcomes applications for the Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy. We seek to attract outstanding junior scholars from around the globe whose research is focused on the role of the United States in global affairs from World War II to the present, including the conduct of U.S. statecraft, diplomacy, and grand strategy. Kissinger Visiting Scholars fellowships will be awarded to candidates with outstanding proposals that require access to the Henry A. Kissinger Papers or other archival holdings related to American diplomacy at Yale (http://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/kissinger-collection; http://guides.library.yale.edu/american-diplomacy-primary-sources).

Fellowships are awarded for one-year and are renewable for one additional year. The PhD degree must be completed to begin the fellowship. Recipients are expected to use their time at Yale to conduct original research and prepare manuscripts for publication. Kissinger Visiting Scholars will also work with an active academic community of predoctoral fellows, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars, as well as Yale faculty in history, political science, and other disciplines.

Fellows are required to remain in residence through the duration of their fellowship. International Security Studies provides office space and resources. Postdocs are expected to participate in the academic life and public activities of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, International Security Studies, and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. This includes regularly attending ISS’s weekly colloquium and sharing one’s research within this forum. Kissinger postdocs may teach small seminars if desired on subjects relevant to U.S. statecraft, diplomatic history, international affairs, or grand strategy.

The Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy was founded upon the 2011 donation of Dr. Henry Kissinger’s papers to Yale related to his pre-government, government, and post-government careers (http://news.yale.edu/2011/06/14/yale-receive-kissinger-papers-and-establish-johnson-center-study-american-diplomacy). A program of the Jackson School of Global Affairs, in conjunction with International Security Studies and the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, the Center brings academics and practitioners to Yale as Kissinger Visiting Scholars and Kissinger Senior Fellows, as well as hosts an annual conference a range of other activities relating to international affairs.

Salary: $65,000 plus $5,000 for research expenses

Qualifications: Recent Ph.D. in relevant field. Ph.D. must be in hand by September 1, 2024.

The deadline for applications is December 18, 2023. Applications are due through Interfolio:              apply.interfolio.com/133967          

A complete application includes:

c.v.

1000-word research proposal, to include an explanation of how access to the Kissinger Papers or other archival holdings related to diplomatic history at Yale would help achieve the goals of your project.

Writing sample, e.g. a dissertation chapter or journal article

Three academic references (no letters of recommendation required)

Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.

(Source: AHA) 

JOB OFFER: Postdoctoral researcher digital legal history - Tilburg University [Job Closing Date: 4 November 2023]

Tilburg University | Tilburg Law School
is looking for a 

 

Postdoctoral researcher digital legal history

 

Department: Public Law & Governance
Location: Tilburg
Scientific area: legal history, digital humanities
Full time equivalent: 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week). 
Duration of employment contract: 24 months, renewable 
Monthly full-time salary: € 4.332- € 5.929 gross 
Job Closing Date: 4 November 2023    

 

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with skills in digital humanities, to work with us as part of the CaPANES-project (ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty’). This project addresses economic sovereignty of commercial cities in the period of c. 1400-c. 1620. You will be part of a vibrant team of fourteen legal historians, within the Department of Public Law and Governance.  

 

Job Description 
As postdoctoral researcher you will be responsible for the development and assessment of social network analyses that will be part of the ongoing research within the CaPANES-project. The CaPANES project integrates network analysis as a method to study contacts and diplomatic relations between trading cities in Western Europe. In addition, the dispersal and use of concepts will be combined with prosopographical data (semantic social network analysis). Moreover, the postdoctoral researcher will set up agent-based models for testing the interactions and loops between variables of intra-city developments. Within cities, social, economic and political phenomena had an impact on the self-perception of the city in terms of their sovereignty and autonomy. You will publish on the use of digital methods to answer legal-historical questions. 

 

You will be working within the Department of Public Law and Governance. The CaPANES-project is part of the theme ‘Urban Constitutionalism’, which is one of the axes of the Signature Plan ‘Global Law and Governance’. The PLG Department hosts legal scholars, sociologists and governance scholars. PLG is a welcome environment for interdisciplinary research. 

 

What do we ask? 
Tilburg University is curious about how you can contribute to our research, education, impact, and to the team you will be part of. Therefore, we would like to get the best possible picture of your knowledge, insight, skills, and personality. Below you can find the qualifications we consider important for the position.

• You have a PhD on a legal-historical, political-historical or institutional-historical topic, preferably for the later Middle Ages or early modern period
• You have knowledge of digital humanities’ methods, in particular social-network analysis; if not acquired already, you are willing to learn agent-based modelling
• You have high proficiency of English, and are willing to learn Dutch
• You have a portfolio of international, peer reviewed publications
• You demonstrate scientific integrity 
• You will contribute to an open and inclusive organizational culture
• You have team spirit: you feel part of a team and express this through collaboration, sharing knowledge and experiences, and contributing to an open and inclusive work environment.

 

To maintain a vibrant and active university community, it is important that we meet each other regularly and that the connection between us remains good. Therefore, the premise is that all staff members carry out their work in the Netherlands.

 

What do we offer?
Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment with attention to flexibility and room for (personal) development. We recognize and reward our employees and encourage the use of talents and strengths.

 

Tilburg University is committed to an open and inclusive culture, embracing diversity, and encouraging the mutual integration of groups of staff and students. We create equal opportunities for all our staff and students so that everyone feels at home in our university community. 

 

We work in a vibrant and lively (work) environment on our beautiful campus, close to the forest and easily accessible by public transport. We are committed to a sustainable society and challenge you to make an active contribution to this. 

 

For this position, we offer:

• A position based on 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week);
• It is a vacancy for 2 years (one time renewable, max. duration 32 months);
• A salary of minimum 4.332 € and maximum 5.929 € gross per month for full time employment, based on UFO profile Researcher 3 and salary scale 11 of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system for salary scaling that is based on relevant education and work experience;
• Vacation allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%);
• Vacation days (41 days for a 40-hour work week);
• Full reimbursement of commuting expenses for sustainable travel: walking, biking and public transportation;
• Moving allowance;
• Options Model for benefits and reimbursement of expenses;
• Employees from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a tax-free allowance of 30% of their taxable wages. We will apply for this reimbursement for you;
• You will be enrolled in the General Pension Fund for Public Employers (ABP) through us;
• Various training courses, for example in leadership skills, personal effectiveness, and career development;
• A wide range of amenities and facilities and various arrangements to create an optimal work-life balance.

 

Visit working at Tilburg University for more information on our terms of employment. 

Information and application

We invite you to apply online for this position by 3 November 2023 (23:59 CET). 
More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. Dave De ruysscher, d.deruysscher@tilburguniversity.edu. 

 

Please attach the following documents to the application:

1. cover letter
2. CV
3. official copy of your PhD degree
4. best publication and publication list
5. contact information of at least two referees (including name, phone number, and e-mail address). 

 

The first selection interviews will take place on 10 November 2023. Tilburg Law School uses structured interviews and part of this is a permanent appointment advisory committee. This committee consists of the following members:  

1. Prof. D. De ruysscher, professor of legal history, PI of the CaPANES project      
2. Dr M. den Hollander, assistant-professor legal history      
3. Gaby Coenen, manager of the PLG Department      

 

Ideally, you will start working for Tilburg University on 2 January 2024. 

More information here.