PhD Position in History / Material Culture – ERC Project IslandLives (UPF) Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain

Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) is advertising funded Master’s and PhD opportunities in Heritage Science for Fall 2026 (Academic Year 2026/2027). The programs are interdisciplinary and aimed at applicants interested in archaeology , conservation science , museum studies , and cultural heritage studies . Available specializations include Archaeological Excavation , Heritage Conservation Science , Museum Management , and Cultural Heritage Studies . Funding information in ...

Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (National Institutes for Cultural Heritage) is recruiting a Researcher or Senior Researcher in Buddhist Art History within the Department of Cultural Properties Information and Materials. This is a full-time, permanent research position (non-tenure-track; probationary period applies) based in Tokyo, Japan . The work includes research and study related to Buddhist art, as well as research on the use of materials and information for art his...

PhD and MPhil research opportunities are available in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. The programme takes an international four-field approach, combining archaeology with evolutionary, social, and linguistic anthropology. Research themes include Ecologies, Liveable Futures, Turbulence and Transition, and Connections and Creativity. The department highlights strengths in fieldwork, excavation, radiocarbon dating, organic residue analysis, and collabora...

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at Birkbeck, University of London in the School of Social Sciences , working on the AHRC-DFG funded project Forging And Belonging (FABRIC) . The project investigates how the changing value of craft in Senegal and Benin shapes social belonging and imagined futures among teenagers in craft families. The research draws on ethnographic data collected from families in three villages in each country, including participant ethnographies with potters, weavers, and bla...

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...