1.) Two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%), Research Group "The Archaeology of Dependency"
Candidates will work in the Research Group "The Archaeology of Dependency (ArchDepth): Resources, Power, and Status Differentiation". This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, established in 2017 within the Faculty of Philosophy. The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council. The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an international research university that offers a wide range of degree programs. With 200 years' worth of history, some 38,000 students, over 6,000 employees, and an excellent domestic and international reputation, Bonn University is among Germany’s leading universities.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies invites applications for two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%)
Starting date: October 1, 2020.
Contracts will have a fixed duration of three years (ending September 30, 2023), with an option of extending for an additional year after a positive interim evaluation (3+1 years).
The successful candidates will work in the Research Group The Archaeology of Dependency (ArchDepth): Resources, Power, and Status Differentiation. This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, established in 2017 within the Faculty of Philosophy. The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
Job Description
The successful candidates will formulate independent projects within the Research Group The Archaeology of Dependency (ArchDepth): Resources, Power, and Status Differentiation. Research on dependency and slavery based on the archaeological record opens up new fields of study and research questions.
The general concept of the ArchDepth Research Group spins around the notion of resource dependencies embodied in a diverse set of archaeological material culture. Within a larger ecological and sociopolitical setting, resource dependencies include both strong asymmetrical forms of dependency between resources and humans and between humans. The PhD projects perform their in-depth research along one of three lines of archaeological evidence fundamental to the research group: (1) landscapes, architecture, and households, (2) artifacts and ecofacts, or (3) funerary contexts.
Also single aspects or combinations from the lines of evidence can be chosen as a PhD topic, especially when tackling particular methodological or theoretical problems. As the analysis of a spectrum of archaeological materialities requires different methods including natural scientific techniques, the collaboration with specialists from different disciplines is expected. The research group follows a comparative approach. Therefore, the geographical and chronological emphasis of the individual doctoral projects is open, as long as they are related to material culture from archaeological contexts.
The research group itself forms part of the wider research of the BCDSS and here of the Research Area B Embodied Dependencies.
The positions are funded for up to four years (3+1 years) on a salary of 65% of the TV-L-E13 salary level, approximately €30,000 pro-rata per annum before tax.
The successful candidates will receive a salary and social security benefits. In addition, access to extra funding for archive trips and conferences will be available, as well as institutional support for women and applicants with families. They will participate in the BCDSS’s PhD program which offers both academic and non-academic training units.
PhD candidates at the University of Bonn are advised to enroll as PhD students at the bi-annual fee of about €300. This fee covers free regional public transport within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as student discounts at museums, cinemas, and other benefits.
Qualifications
Applicants are required to have a completed university degree (Master, Magister or Staatsexamen) in an archaeological discipline or a degree in a similar area of study relevant for the research group.
We welcome applications from all over the world. English is the working language within the Research Group The Archaeology of Dependency (ArchDepth): Resources, Power, and Status Differentiation and within the BCDSS.
The English of the applicant must therefore be on an equivalent level of:
ETS TOEFL certificate (minimum score of 600 for the paper-based test, 250 for the computer-based test, and 100 for the online test);
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, CPE (any grade);
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, CAE (grade A or B);
IELTS test (level 7.0);
C1 level according to CEFR native speakers or graduates from an English-speaking university are exempt from this verification.
However, we do not require a formal certificate.
How to Apply
Applicants are invited to submit:
1) their application, consisting of
a) curriculum vitae;
b) a list of publications (if applicable);
c) copies of their BA and MA certificates or equivalents (including official transcripts).
2) an outline of the research project they would like to develop (max. four pages), including key research questions and hypotheses, sources and methodology, connections of the proposed project with, and relevance for, the topic of the research group.
3) a sample of work of max. three pages, together with a short description of the context (e.g. part of BA or MA thesis, term paper, published article etc.) in its original language.
4) the names and contact details of two referees (position, professional address, and e-mail).
The University of Bonn is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. It is certified as a family-friendly university. It aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented and to promote their careers in particular. It therefore urges women with relevant qualifications to apply. Applications will be handled in accordance with the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz (State Equality Act). Applications from suitable individuals with a certified serious disability or similar are particularly welcome.
If you are interested in this position, please send your complete English application documents combined into one single pdf file by March 15, 2020, to application@dependency.uni-bonn.de with the application code 98/19/3.202.
For further information please refer to our website or contact Sarah Dusend at researchandstudy@dependency.uni-bonn.de.
https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/career/two-phd-positions-research-associates-65-research-group-the-archaeology-of-dependency
2.) Two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%), Research Group "Structures of Dependency in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Church"
Candidates will work in the Research Group "Structures of Dependency in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Church". This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council. The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an international research university that offers a wide range of degree programs. With 200 years' worth of history, some 38,000 students, over 6,000 employees, and an excellent domestic and international reputation, Bonn University is among Germany’s leading universities.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies invites applications for two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%)
Starting date: October 1, 2020.
Contracts will have a fixed duration of three years (ending September 30, 2023), with an option of extending for an additional year after a positive interim evaluation (3+1 years).
The successful candidates will work in the Research Group Structures of Dependency in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Church. This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, established in 2017 within the Faculty of Philosophy. The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
Job Description
The successful candidates will formulate independent projects within the Research Group Structures of Dependency in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Church. This research group seeks to investigate structures of dependency within the late antique and early medieval Church and similar structures linking the Church of this period to its surrounding societies. The main focus will be on dependency structures which developed in the Church of the western part of the Roman Empire including the British Isles. The politically and socially instable situation in these territories and the conversion of large groups of the indigenous population to Christianity led to the emergence of new (and often shifting) patterns of dependency which transformed or replaced earlier ones until by the 9th century the establishment of Frankish rule over large parts of western and central Europe had created new political and religious frameworks which are outside the scope of the current project.
The three individual projects within the Research Group are envisioned to be case studies of strong asymmetrical dependencies that can be observed in the Church's system of penance, ecclesiastical judiciary, and monasticism.
The research group itself forms part of the wider research of the BCDSS and here of the Research Area C Institutions, Norms, and Practices.
The positions are funded for up to four years (3+1 years) on a salary of 65% of the TV-L-E13 salary level, approximately €30,000 pro-rata per annum before tax.
The successful candidates will receive a salary and social security benefits. In addition, access to extra funding for archive trips and conferences will be available, as well as institutional support for women and applicants with families. They will participate in the BCDSS’s PhD program which offers both academic and non-academic training units.
PhD candidates at the University of Bonn are advised to enroll as PhD students at the bi-annual fee of about €300. This fee covers free regional public transport within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as student discounts at museums, cinemas, and other benefits.
Qualifications
Applicants are required to have completed a university degree (Master, Magister, Diploma or equivalent) in Protestant Theology or in a similar area of study relevant to the research group and in accordance with the Examination Regulations for PhD candidates of the Faculty of Protestant Theology, which will award the doctorate.
We welcome applications from all over the world. English is the working language within the Research Group Structures of Dependency in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Church and within the BCDSS.
The English of the applicant must therefore be on an equivalent level of:
ETS TOEFL certificate (minimum score of 600 for the paper-based test, 250 for the computer-based test, and 100 for the online test);
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, CPE (any grade);
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, CAE (grade A or B);
IELTS test (level 7.0);
C1 level according to CEFR native speakers or graduates from an English-speaking university are exempt from this verification.
However, we do not require a formal certificate.
How to Apply
Applicants are invited to submit:
1) their application, consisting of
a) curriculum vitae;
b) a list of publications (if applicable);
c) copies of their BA and MA certificates or equivalents (including official transcripts);
d) language certificates (for Hebrew, Greek, Latin, if applicable).
2) an outline of the research project they would like to develop (max. four pages), including key research questions and hypotheses, sources and methodology, connections of the proposed project with, and relevance for, the topic of the research group.
3) a sample of work of max. three pages, together with a short description of the context (e.g. part of BA or MA thesis, term paper, published article etc.) in its original language.
4) the names and contact details of two referees (position, professional address, and e-mail).
The University of Bonn is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. It is certified as a family-friendly university. It aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented and to promote their careers in particular. It therefore urges women with relevant qualifications to apply. Applications will be handled in accordance with the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz (State Equality Act). Applications from suitable individuals with a certified serious disability or similar are particularly welcome.
If you are interested in this position, please send your complete English application documents combined into one single pdf file by March 15, 2020, to application@dependency.uni-bonn.de with the application code 95/19/3.202.
For further information please refer to our website or contact Sarah Dusend at researchandstudy@dependency.uni-bonn.de.
https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/career/two-phd-positions-research-associates-65
3.) Two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%), Research Group "Coerced Circulation of Knowledge"
Candidates will work in the Research Group "Coerced Circulation of Knowledge". This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council. The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an international research university that offers a wide range of degree programs. With 200 years' worth of history, some 38,000 students, over 6,000 employees, and an excellent domestic and international reputation, Bonn University is among Germany’s leading universities.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies invites applications for two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%)
Starting date: October 1, 2020.
Contracts will have a fixed duration of three years (ending September 30, 2023), with an option of extending for an additional year after a positive interim evaluation (3+1 years).
The successful candidates will work in the Research Group Coerced Circulation of Knowledge. This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, established in 2017 within the Faculty of Philosophy. The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
Job Description
The successful candidates will formulate independent projects within the Research Group Coerced Circulation of Knowledge.
This Research Group considers dependents (such as slaves, serfs, prisoners, servants or others) as a driving force in circulation of knowledge. Ideally, the proposed PhD project should therefore relate to either labor conditions of knowledge circulation, the mobility either of historical actors or objects, or of global entanglements. The topics can thus be of a wide variety – from micro studies to wide-scale approaches, in any historical period or geographical region. However, a focus on periods before the eighteenth century and/or on connections between regions outside of Europe is particularly welcome.
The research group itself forms part of the wider research of the BCDSS and here of the Research Area D Labor and Spatiality.
The positions are funded for up to four years (3+1 years) on a salary of 65% of the TV-L-E13 salary level, approximately €30,000 pro-rata per annum before tax.
The successful candidates will receive a salary and social security benefits. In addition, access to extra funding for archive trips and conferences will be available, as well as institutional support for women and applicants with families. They will participate in the BCDSS’s PhD program which offers both academic and non-academic training units.
PhD candidates at the University of Bonn are advised to enroll as PhD students at the bi-annual fee of about €300. This fee covers free regional public transport within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as student discounts at museums, cinemas, and other benefits.
Qualifications
Applicants are required to have completed a university degree (Master, Magister or Staatsexamen) in history, cultural history, history of ideas or in a similar area of study relevant for the research group.
We welcome applications from all over the world. English is the working language within the Research Group Coerced Circulation of Knowledge and within the BCDSS.
The English of the applicant must therefore be on an equivalent level of:
ETS TOEFL certificate (minimum score of 600 for the paper-based test, 250 for the computer-based test, and 100 for the online test);
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, CPE (any grade);
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, CAE (grade A or B);
IELTS test (level 7.0);
C1 level according to CEFR native speakers or graduates from an English-speaking university are exempt from this verification.
However, we do not require a formal certificate.
How to Apply
Applicants are invited to submit:
1) their application, consisting of
a) curriculum vitae;
b) a list of publications (if applicable);
c) copies of their BA and MA certificates or equivalents (including official transcripts).
2) an outline of the research project they would like to develop (max. four pages), including key research questions and hypotheses, sources and methodology, connections of the proposed project with, and relevance for, the topic of the research group.
3) a sample of work of max. three pages, together with a short description of the context (e.g. part of BA or MA thesis, term paper, published article etc.) in its original language.
4) the names and contact details of two referees (position, professional address, and e-mail).
The University of Bonn is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. It is certified as a family-friendly university. It aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented and to promote their careers in particular. It therefore urges women with relevant qualifications to apply.
Applications will be handled in accordance with the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz (State Equality Act). Applications from suitable individuals with a certified serious disability or similar are particularly welcome.
If you are interested in this position, please send your complete English application documents combined into one single pdf file by March 15, 2020, to application[at]dependency.uni-bonn.de with the application code 96/19/3.202.
For further information please refer to our website or contact Sarah Dusend at researchandstudy[at]dependency.uni-bonn.de.
https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/career/two-phd-positions-research-associates-65-research-group-coerced-circulation-of-knowledge
4.) Two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%), Research Group "Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification"
Candidates will work in the Research Group "Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification". This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, established in 2017 within the Faculty of Philosophy. The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council. The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an international research university that offers a wide range of degree programs. With 200 years' worth of history, some 38,000 students, over 6,000 employees, and an excellent domestic and international reputation, Bonn University is among Germany’s leading universities.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies invites applications for two PhD Positions (Research Associates, 65%)
Starting date: October 1, 2020.
Contracts will have a fixed duration of three years (ending September 30, 2023), with an option of extending for an additional year after a positive interim evaluation (3+1 years).
The successful candidates will work in the Research Group Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification. This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, established in 2017 within the Faculty of Philosophy. The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council.
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative study of different forms of dependencies from Antiquity to the present, across many regions.
Job Description
The successful candidates will formulate independent projects within the Research Group Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification.
The research group focuses on the notion of touch and different forms of body modification from a historical and anthropological perspective. Combining theories and methodologies of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Material Culture Studies, Oral History, Postcolonial Theory and Gender Studies, it examines (historical) practices of body modification such as tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding, etc., as well as the bodies and material objects involved in these practices.
Besides investigating the entangled histories of tactility, body modification and power relations, it discusses the dynamic relations between social actors with a focus on the Americas during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also takes the various (forced) migratory movements from and to the Americas into account, for example from Asia to the Caribbean.
Individual projects of the research group will examine how body marks and practices of body modification have visualized, materialized and performatively (re)created asymmetrical power relations and embodied experiences of dependency. They will discuss how marking practices have defined and negotiated boundaries of humans and non-humans, subjects and objects, culture and nature, and how discourses about and silences on these practices have influenced the (im-)possibility of specific historical narratives. They will analyze the multiple and interacting forms of oppression and empowerment in relation to the practices of marking, unmarking, inscribing and touching, which may create, maintain or challenge networks and systems of asymmetrical dependency.
The research group itself forms part of the wider research of the BCDSS and here of the Research Area B Embodied Dependencies.
The positions are funded for up to four years (3+1 years) on a salary of 65% of the TV-L-E13 salary level, approximately €30,000 pro-rata per annum before tax.
The successful candidates will receive a salary and social security benefits. In addition, access to extra funding for archive trips and conferences will be available, as well as institutional support for women and applicants with families. They will participate in the BCDSS’s PhD program which offers both academic and non-academic training units.
PhD candidates at the University of Bonn are advised to enroll as PhD students at the bi-annual fee of about €300. This fee covers free regional public transport within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as student discounts at museums, cinemas, and other benefits.
Qualifications
Applicants are required to have completed a university degree (Master, Magister or Staatsexamen) in Social and Cultural Anthropology or in a similar area of study relevant for the research group.
We welcome applications from all over the world. English is the working language within the Research Group Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification and within the BCDSS.
The English of the applicant must therefore be on an equivalent level of:
ETS TOEFL certificate (minimum score of 600 for the paper-based test, 250 for the computer-based test, and 100 for the online test);
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, CPE (any grade);
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, CAE (grade A or B);
IELTS test (level 7.0);
C1 level according to CEFR native speakers or graduates from an English-speaking university are exempt from this verification.
However, we do not require a formal certificate.
How to Apply
Applicants are invited to submit:
1) their application, consisting of
a) curriculum vitae;
b) a list of publications (if applicable);
c) copies of their BA and MA certificates or equivalents (including official transcripts).
2) an outline of the research project they would like to develop (max. four pages), including key research questions and hypotheses, sources and methodology, connections of the proposed project with, and relevance for, the topic of the research group.
3) a sample of work of max. three pages, together with a short description of the context (e.g. part of BA or MA thesis, term paper, published article etc.) in its original language.
4) the names and contact details of two referees (position, professional address, and e-mail).
The University of Bonn is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. It is certified as a family-friendly university. It aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented and to promote their careers in particular. It therefore urges women with relevant qualifications to apply. Applications will be handled in accordance with the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz (State Equality Act). Applications from suitable individuals with a certified serious disability or similar are particularly welcome.
If you are interested in this position, please send your complete English application documents combined into one single pdf file by March 15, 2020, to application@dependency.uni-bonn.de with the application code 97/19/3.202.
For further information please refer to our website or contact Sarah Dusend at researchandstudy@dependency.uni-bonn.de.
https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/career/two-phd-positions-research-associates-65-research-group-marking-power