Job: Research Associates in Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
University of Bonn, Germany
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies invites applications for the above positions running three years, from 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2022. There will be an option of extending the contract for an additional year after a positive interim evaluation (3+1 years).
The successful candidates will be employed at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council. The BCDSS offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from antiquity to the present, across many regions. The Center’s research into different forms of dependencies are approached from five different thematic and methodological perspectives (Research Areas, RA):
- RA A) Grammars of Dependency;
- RA B) Embodied Dependencies;
- RA C) Institutions, Norms, and Practices;
- RA D) Labor and Spatiality;
- RA E) Gender (and Intersectionality)
Among other academic positions, we are therefore recruiting graduate students who are interested in contributing to an outstanding interdisciplinary and international research centre. The successful candidates will be among a total of 40 PhD students working with more than 40 advanced and senior researchers contributing to the BCDSS’ research.
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