Applications are invited for the following position:
Post Doctoral Researcher (Level 1) in Early Modern European History – Specific Purpose Contract
Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Limerick
The successful candidate will join the Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate project "Malcontents: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning," led by Dr Richard Kirwan. This project explores outsider experiences in the early modern world of learning with a focus on the universities of the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. It seeks to uncover the processes that led to the identification of social and intellectual deviance and the marginalisation of malcontents in universities. In doing so, the project aims to establish how the treatment of deviance facilitated the substantiation of order in the early modern university and beyond. The Post Doctoral Researcher will work with the P.I. to complete Work Package 2 (WP2) of the Malcontents project. WP2 interrogates social marginality in the professoriate with a focus on the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. This will entail the identification of relevant historical primary sources through extensive archival research; the analysis of this documentary material; and the presentation of findings in project publications. The Post Doctoral Researcher will conduct archival research and analysis with a focus on institutions of learning in the Low Countries. The Post Doctoral Researcher will also assist the P.I. in conducting research into scholarly marginality in the Holy Roman Empire.
Salary Scale: PD1 €42,033 - €48,427 p.a. pro rata (maximum starting salary is €42,033 p.a. pro rata)
Further information for applicants and application material is available online from: www.ul.ie/hrvacancies
The closing date for receipt of applications is Thursday, 11th May 2023. Applications must be completed online before 12 noon, Irish Standard Time on the closing date.