The Journal for the History of Knowledge (JHoK) is looking for a (R)MA Student in Humanities as assistant managing editor (0.1 fte) to start on 1 June 2026 (or as close as possible to this date) for 6 months. The student should be registered as (R)MA student for 2026/2027(at least until the end of your…

The Université Lumière Lyon 2 is looking for a PhD Candidate on the topic of ‘Environmental History in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Knowledge, Transformations, and Societies’. This doctoral project focuses on environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries. It examines how relationships between societies and environments were shaped by industrialisation, imperial expansion, technological…

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 years). The project DISMANTLE is a new NWO VIDI-funded research project that aims to gather a corpus of hundreds of medieval literary and…

The Department of History at Ghent University is looking for three PhD students (four years) to do interdisciplinary research on biodiversity in Northern Europe during the Late Middle Ages (15-16th centuries) as part of the ERC research team ECOLENT. The ERC-funded project Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600 (ECOLENT) develops a…

~ because of required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het Nationaal Slavernijmuseum bouwt aan een digitaal kennis platform dat mensen in staat stelt om dat verleden zelf te onderzoeken – laagdrempelig, toegankelijk en eerlijk. Hiervoor zoekt het museum een junior onderzoeker / inventarisator voor een periode van 3 maanden. De onderzoeker / inventarisator brengt in…

~ because of scope an required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het Departement Erfgoedstudies van de Faculteit Ontwerpwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Antwerpen zoekt een voltijdse (100%) doctoraatsbursaal in het kader van het FWO project ‘Labore et Constantia. Continuïteit en verandering in de werkritmes in de Plantijnse drukkerij (ca. 1580-1840)’. Hoeveel uur werkten vroegmoderne mensen…

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…

The SOCION research consortium recently announced the opening of 17 PhD positions. These positions are divided over six research clusters within the umbrella theme ‘Towards a New Fabric of Society’. SOCION is a research consortium building on the SCOOP program. Bridging psychology, history, demography, philosophy, and sociology, we investigate how shared values, social mechanisms, and…

The Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University is looking for a PhD candidate for the project ‘PhD Institutional Change in the Organization of Care in the Netherlands’. This project explores how various forms of care arrangements have interacted and changed over time in the Netherlands during the long 20th century, and studies…

The Unger Van Brero Foundation has established an endowed chair in Business History/Financial History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Chair aims to make connections between the business history, financial and economic history and broader developments in the economy and society. This endowed chair aims to further investigate the historical position of international business in this…