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PhD position ‘Food Protest in the Early Modern Dutch Republic’ (University of Amsterdam) – deadline 10 April 2025
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). The PhD will work on the Dutch subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and led by Professor Maartje van Gelder.
The research team PhD, which will consist of the PI, a postdoc and 2 PhD candidates, will focus on two fundamental and connected historical questions: How did ordinary people shape politics in the period before institutionalized democracy? And how has power shaped archives, determining whose histories have been written, and whose have been silenced?
The PhD candidate for this position will focus on the subproject on famine and urban protest in the Dutch Republic. Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, the PhD will track protests in a broad corpus of different sources, in order to compare protests in different Dutch cities.
Applications should be submitted ultimately 10 April 2025 via the Academic Transfer portal.
