Job opportunities

Funded Doctoral Position in Environmental/Agricultural History (Turkey)

Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

Application deadline: 8 December 2025

The Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a fully-funded, four-year (1 plus 3) PhD position in the Swiss National Research Foundation project “Feeding the Earth: Synthetic Fertilizers and the Remaking of Agriculture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”. The position is to be filled as of June 1st, 2026.

More information: https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/phd-position-4-yrs-in-environmental-agricultural-history-turkey/0bb7b037-34ee-4ff1-b087-4dec85f9e5d5

Past Job Opportunities (Archive)

Four Job Opportunities at the Project Archivum Alevicum / Alevi Archive

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig

Application deadline for all positions: 30 November 2025

Research Associate (m/f/d), Historiography
https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-researcher01_engl.pdf/view

Research Associate (m/f/d), Ethnography
https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-researcher01_engl.pdf/view

Research Software Engineer (m/w/d)
https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-researcher03_engl.pdf/view

Doctoral Position Digital Humanities (m/w/d/)
https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-dh-doct04_engl.pdf/view

The project will reconstruct the only scarcely explored ethnohistory of the Alevis in Anatolia, focusing on the period from the 16th to the 20th century. It will examine settlement dynamics and the processes of community-building among Alevi groups, as well as their complex relationships with the state, Sunni Muslims, and non-Muslims. Combining a range of methods based on previously unconnected sources—including Ottoman archives, Alevi manuscripts, oral traditions, and material culture—a comprehensive virtual research environment will be developed. This environment will enable the reconstruction of the development of Alevi communities within the context of Ottoman social and religious history from the Early Modern Period to the Modern Era.

https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen