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Job: Two PhD positions in “Feeding the Earth: Synthetic Fertilizers and the Remaking of Agriculture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
University of Basel and University of Birmingham
The collaborative project “Feeding the Earth: Synthetic Fertilizers and the Remaking of Agriculture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” of the University of Basel, the University of Birmingham, and Helmut-Schmidt University in Hamburg offers two PhD positions.
One position is at the University of Basel on synthetic fertilizers, contestations and alternatives in South Africa (c. 1900-1990), and one at the University of Birmingham on chemical fertilizer and Moroccan agriculture (c. 1920s-1970s).
Application deadline: 8 December 2025