Salary: Grade 7, £28,839 - £30,594 per annum (fixed term)

Applications are invited for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford, tenable from 1 October 2009. The appointment forms part of the Mellon-funded project ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’, which aims to explore early modern intellectual history through the medium of correspondence networks. In particular, the Fellow will be responsible for checking and publishing an online calendar of the letters of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600-62), the Anglo-German reformer whose wide-ranging intelligence network extended as far as East-Central Europe and New England.

The successful candidate will be based in the Faculty of History or English depending on their disciplinary background, and will also be affiliated with the University of Sheffield (where Hartlib’s papers are deposited). The appointment is on Grade 7 of the University’s salary scale, within the range of points 1-3.

Further particulars are available at:

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/jobs/index.htm

They may also be obtained from the Board Office, History Faculty, Old Boys’ High School, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL (board.admin@history.ox.ac.uk). Applications and references (to be sent to this address) must arrive no later than noon on Friday 26 June 2009.