Positions
3 PhD positions project ‘Voices of Resistance’ (International Institute of Social History) – deadline 2 June 2024
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching three PhD researchers (0.8 to 1.0 fte) for the research project Voices of Resistance.
The project ‘Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean’ investigates histories of enslavement, slavery and racialisation through the use of testimonies and personal accounts from court records from across the early modern European colonial empires in the Indonesian archipelago, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.
The PhDs will explore the cases and sources connected to the French, Portuguese and Spanish empires in Asia. Next to work independently on their PhD research. the PhDs will also collaborate with the team on collective aspects of the project, such as creating data sets (on slave trade, enslavement and stereotypes), organising meetings and contributing to the outreach of the project through public stories. The PhDs will be part of a research team at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the Economic, Social and Demographic History (ESDH) Department at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and will participate in activities at both institutes.
Applications should be submitted ultimately by 2 June 2024 via the application portal of the KNAW.
