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PhD position ‘Food for thought. The science of blockades, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945’ (U. of Amsterdam) – deadline 17 April 2026
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies invites applications for a fully-funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0 FTE). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research project BLOCKADE, which explores the global blockades of the First and Second World Wars, and their aftermaths.
A cooperation between the universities of Trondheim, Hamburg, Freiburg and Amsterdam, BLOCKADE sets out to prove that these blockades are crucial to understanding not only how the world wars were fought but also their globality and totality, their immediate effects, and their long-term global repercussions.
This PhD project will analyse the interplay between the development of social, political and nutritional science and the blockades. In particular, it will study how, when, and why war-related experiences, funding flows, and policy impacted scientific developments related to food consumption and production and their social and cultural environs – and vice versa.
Applications should be submitted ultimately 17 April 2026.
