Postdoctoral Research Position in History at Lund University Lund University in Sweden

The postdoctoral position is based in the Division of History at Lund University , within a large and active department that also includes Human Rights Studies and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies. The Division brings together professors, senior lecturers, researchers, doctoral candidates, and administrative staff, and offers a research-rich environment with teaching across undergraduate to doctoral levels. The postdoc will be affiliated with one or more of the Division’s six res...

Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria, is offering up to five funded PhD places in Comparative History for the 2027/28 academic year. The four-year programme is accredited in Austria and the United States and welcomes interdisciplinary research proposals examining interconnected historical cultures and geographies. Historical Studies at CEU has particular strengths in the history of Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, while faculty research also covers areas ranging from...

Two doctoral researcher positions are available at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, based on the Joensuu Campus. The successful candidates will join a Research Council of Finland-funded project on the history of forestry knowledge and its international movement in the interwar period. The project investigates how local forestry practices were transformed into global science between 1917 and 1939, and how Nordic forestry became entangled ...

The Department of Chinese Studies in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen is seeking a pre-doctoral researcher to undertake a PhD research project in Chinese Studies/Sinology. The position offers an opportunity to develop a research profile focused on China or Greater China, particularly across historical and interdisciplinary approaches. The doctoral research may engage with areas such as social and cultural history, environmental history, the history of med...

Two doctoral researcher positions are available in the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, based on the Joensuu Campus. The posts are part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Trees and the travels of knowledge: making modern (trans)imperial forestry from the margins, 1917–1939” , which investigates how forestry research moved across borders and how local forestry practices became part of global science in the interwar period. The...