Fully Funded PhD Positions in Literary and Cultural Studies, History, Anthropology, Political Science, and Law at University of Konstanz University of Konstanz in Germany

The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University invites applications for up to twelve fellowships for the 2027/2028 academic year. The fellowship period runs from October 2027 to September 2028, with durations of six to twelve months starting on 1 October 2027. The centre’s research programme focuses on cultural practices of reparation and irreparability, asking how societies respond to harms that cannot be fully undone. The 2027/2028 annual theme...

Freie Universität Berlin is advertising a postdoctoral research assistant position in the Institute of Islamic Studies within the Department of History and Cultural Studies. The role is attached to the professorship of Prof. Dr. Florian Zemmin and focuses on Islamic Studies , Middle Eastern Studies , Arabic conceptual history , modern Islamic or Arab thought, contemporary Arabic knowledge production, religion and society, Islamic reformism, and theories of modernity and secularity. The position ...

Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku is inviting applications for four Postdoctoral Fellow / Postdoctoral Researcher positions starting 1 September 2027 for a three-year period. This is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral opportunity open to projects in any discipline within TIAS’s five constituent faculties: Economics, Education, Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences . The call emphasizes academic excellence , internationally strong research, and active participat...

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany is advertising PhD Researcher positions in Quantitative Past Urban Studies within the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization. The project focuses on quantitative, historical, and archaeological urban research, with particular emphasis on analyzing urban patterns and processes across large past datasets through the URBank initiative. The successful candidate will work on multidisciplinary research spanning archaeology, histo...

The Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany is recruiting several Postdocs in public security law , public law , legal philosophy , and legal theory . The position is linked to the department’s comparative, international, and interdisciplinary research agenda on security-related matters, fundamental rights protection, the rule of law, democratic principles, digitization, internationalization, and fragmentation...