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PhD Position ‘Global-Micro History Slavery Asia’ (IISH) – deadline 15 June 2025
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching a PhD candidate 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 and other primary source material from across the early modern European colonial empires in the Indonesian archipelago, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.
The PhD project is open to a researcher that will study one of the following additional archives and case studies: the Catholic religious orders, the Danish and/or other Scandinavian merchants and companies, or relevant local archives in vernacular languages of societies across the Indian Ocean, East Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago. The project focuses on archives and sources that bring ‘everyday’ perspectives into the history writing of slavery, enslavement and racialisation. The focus of the empirical part project is on the period from the sixteenth to eighteenth century, and on contributing case studies from outside the Atlantic as a way to balance and renew historiography.
Applicartions should be submitted ultimately 15 June 2025 via the KNAW portal.
