PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in History in France

This doctoral project is part of the ANR PALWOOD programme (2026–2030), which investigates the evolution of wood during the Paleozoic, from the first appearance of wood in the early Devonian to the end-Permian crisis. The project brings together researchers from multiple French research units, including AMAP (Montpellier), CR2P (Paris) and EEP (Lille), with international collaborators. The thesis focuses on the anatomical disparity of homoxylous woods , i.e. woods without vessels. The doctoral r...

The doctoral project is part of the interdisciplinary AcrioFarm research on overdoses, within the CNRS PRIME team directed by Marie Jauffret-Roustide . It focuses on the experience of opioids among users, with particular attention to access to care and harm reduction in a context marked by the spread of synthetic opioids and rising overdose rates. The thesis will examine users’ preferences for natural and synthetic opioids, their experiences of treatment and harm reduction services, and the prev...

This postdoctoral position at CNRS is part of the ANR ROCKMAPS project within the Trajectoires laboratory (UMR 8215). The research focuses on the rock art panels of Bedolina in Capo di Ponte, Lombardy, and their role as engraved cartographic representations carved into stone. The selected researcher will investigate the relationship between the engraved motifs on panels R1, R4, R7, and R9 and their surrounding anthropic and natural environment. The project combines archaeological interpretation ...

This postdoctoral position is based at Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès within the LEREPS research environment and is attached to a collaborative project on the determinants of leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean basin. The researcher will help build the project’s scientific and methodological framework for understanding how the disease evolves through a combination of environmental, socio-economic, territorial, institutional, and behavioral factors. The role places strong emphasis on social sc...

The CONSCIENT project within PSL’s TERRAE research programme examines PFAS litigation as a form of strategic legal mobilisation, with a particular focus on how scientific arguments and legal controversies emerge around environmental harm. This postdoctoral position is embedded in the project’s “Litigation” workstream and will be hosted at IRISSO , where the researcher will have access to shared office space and laboratory seminars, including the MIRE axis on markets, industries, regulation and e...

The Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds (IREMAM) at Aix-Marseille Université is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the project “Violence and the Colonial Project: Embodied Violence in a (Post)Colonial World.” The project brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate how colonial violence was experienced, embodied, remembered, and carried into postcolonial life. The postdoctoral fellow will join a research team focused on colonial violence in A...

IREMAM at Aix-Marseille Université is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the project “Violence and the Colonial Project: Embodied Violence in a (Post)Colonial World.” The postdoc will join an interdisciplinary research team working on the many forms of colonial violence and their afterlives, with a strong emphasis on how violence was experienced, embodied, and carried into the postcolonial present. The project brings together scholars from fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, a...

This postdoctoral position at CNRS is part of the ECO-EVO BIODIV project, which develops an integrative eco-evolutionary approach to understanding biodiversity and its dynamics. The project brings together concepts and methods spanning biodiversity levels, biological groups, intra- and interspecific variation, and the spatial and temporal processes that shape them. The advertised research focuses on building and analysing theoretical models of simple trophic modules, such as a predator, two prey...

INRAE Doctoral Contracts are salaried PhD positions hosted by France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and the environment. The institute has around 272 research units across France, giving doctoral researchers access to a wide national research network. These contracts support doctoral research linked to INRAE’s scientific areas, especially agriculture, food, ecology and the environment. The position is structured as a work contract rather than a stipend, so doctoral researche...