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 Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher specialising in Economic History. The position is attached to the research project ‘The roots of prejudice in Europe: The role of World War II’, funded by the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) Vidi Grant of Dr David Schindler. The Postdoctoral…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute is currently looking for a new Coordinator for the Research Network ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between humans and rural-urban environments’, who will be coordinating this netwerk in close cooperation with fellow-coordinator Kate Frederick. The position is considered to be a great opportunity for networking, developing coordination skills, and mentoring the next…

The Department of Architecture (Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Heverlee Campus, KU Leuven) has vacancies for two postdoctoral researchers (36 months) for the ERC-funded project ‘URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in Europe and China before 1800’, directed by Professor Merlijn Hurx. URBAN-DELTA hypothesises that major advances in the history of water-related…

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…