Positions

Community Manager Colonial Contract Labor (IISH) – deadline 9 April 2025
For the research project Colonial Contract Laborers and Collective Action in the Dutch Empire, the International Institute for Social History (IISH, KNAW) is looking for a Community Manager for 12 hours for 2.5 years. The project focuses on the collection of new event datasets on collective action and forms of resistance by indentured laborers working…
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PhD position ‘Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy’ (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 Italian 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….
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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….
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Historicus (Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier) – deadline 6 april 2025
~ because of scope and required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier (HHNK) zoekt een ervaren (waterschaps)historicus als historisch expert binnen het Cluster Communicatie van het HHNK. De historicus (met een afgronde PhD of Research Master) is verantwoordelijk voor de (beeld)redactie van de publicaties in de serie jaarboeken van ‘de Vriendenkring van…
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Student-assistenten (jobstudenten) voor invoeren financiële bronnen in database (online, Universiteit Antwerpen)
~ because of required proficiency one in Dutch ~ Binnen het FWO-Odysseus project ‘The Social History of Finance’ bestaan momenteel vacatures voor een aantal student-assistenten. Aanstelling zal aan de Universiteit Antwerpen plaatsvinden; de daadwerkelijke invoer kan echter digitaal en derhalve op afstand plaatsvinden. De student-assistenten dienen tijdens hun tewerkstelling ingeschreven te staan als student aan…
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2 Phd Positions on the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden University ) – deadline 11 April 2025
Leiden University is looking for two PhD candidates performing research on the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on one of two overarching themes: the history of playgrounds and play spaces in central and eastern Europe; and the history of the materiality of early childcare more generally in central…
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Two PhD Positions available for NWO Vidi Project ‘Tragedy of the Tropics’ (Wageningen UR) – deadline 31 March 2025
Pim de Zwart, associate professor and PI of the NWO Vidi-project entitled ‘Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850’ is looking for 2 fully funded 4-year PhD students, to be employed at the Department of Economic and Environmental History of Wageningen University and Research. This project aims to…
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