While economic historians have made great efforts to investigate the origins and drivers of the Great Divergence between the global North and South, questions about the historical roots of the more recent economic divide between Asia and Africa have hardly appeared on the radar. The Rural & Environmental History Group of Wageningen University advertises 4…

The Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Global Economic and Social History, with a specialization in the history of Latin America (1800 up to present). The successful applicant will play a central role in teaching our courses on…

Within the Chair Group of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, a PhD research position (1.0 fte) on the broader project “White Sisters, nursing practices, and reproductive health in East Africa, 1890-present” is currently available. The PhD project takes the congregation of the White Sisters as a…

The expertise group in Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University is looking for a colleague who can teach Economic History covering Early Modern and Contemporary History, whose research interests complement our section’s expertise and include at least one of the following topics economic history in relation to life course and the family financial…

The Economic and Social History group at Utrecht University is looking for an enthusiastic postdoctoral Researcher to investigate the impact of the English grain trade (14th – 18th c) on grain politics in northern Germany and the Baltic region. The research project ‘The Politics of the English Grain Trade, 1314-1815’ is a collaboration between the…