Utrecht University’s Economic and Social History group has an opportunity for a PhD candidate to work on a project titled “Air pollution and its socio-economic and health consequences in Dutch cities, 1850-1950”.  This PhD position is part of the interdisciplinary UU PhD programme of the Faculty of Humanities, funded by the administrative agreement (‘bestuursakkoord’) between…

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching 2 PhD students for the research project Resisting Enslavement. The project Resisting Enslavement: A Global Historical Approach to Slavery in the Dutch Atlantic and Asian Empire (1620-1815) investigates forms of resistance in relation to enslavement and slavery. It uses testimonies and personal accounts from court records…

The Faculty of Languages and Humanities, Department History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics, is looking for a postdoc in History for the tenure track position of lecturer in Gender History of the Contemporary Era. The lecturer will teach the following courses: Research seminar contemporary history, History of globalization, Contemporary history section of the course Social…

The Department of Economic History of Lund University is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in the research program ‘The legacy of a settler colony: Quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the Cape Colony’. The program is funded by the The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and will run to the end of 2026. It…

~ because of required proficiency, in Dutch only ~ Het Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) in ’s-Hertogenbosch is vorig jaar als eerste archief in Nederland met fellowships gestart. Deze beurzen (vier per jaar) bieden recent afgestudeerden de kans om tegen een vergoeding voor de duur van maximaal vijf maanden onderzoek te doen in de collectie…