Postdoc Opportunities in History in France

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...

This postdoctoral position at Université de Bordeaux is part of a research programme focused on Devenir(s) Durable(s) and its work on scientific mediation and openness to territorial actors. The project examines how knowledge circulates between the academic world and non-academic audiences, with particular attention to dialogue around sustainability. The successful researcher will study the relationships between researchers, public decision-makers, and civil society , as well as the spaces where...

This postdoctoral position is part of the ANR-funded AGAIA project at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon and its research department IHRIM . The project investigates how Ancient Greek texts and their French translations can be semantically aligned in order to study the reception of Greek literature in French writing, with particular attention to intertextual phenomena. The successful candidate will contribute directly to the construction of the project’s research corpora. The work centres on t...

This postdoctoral position is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project MOVING at the CNRS, led by Prof. Véronique BENEÏ . The project investigates the embodied traces and memories of African slavery in South America, with the advertised post focused on the Colombian Caribbean , especially the Magdalena region. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of ethnographic and interdisciplinary methodologies for studying post-slavery and diasporic contexts. The research combines fieldw...