SinoNet: WG: Stellenausschreibung: Dissertant_in / Universitätsassistent_in Uni Salzburg

[Gregor Kneussel]

http://chinesestudies.eu/?p=2309

Vacant Position: 1 PhD position (University assistant)
University of Salzburg, Department of History

Salzburg, Austria
(Extended) Deadline: 22nd Jun 2017

Duties and functions:
Scientific support in research and teaching in the field of Non-European 
and Global History; administrative functions, independent research 
including the writing of a PhD; after the 3rd year of employment 2 hours 
of teaching are required. Participation in the research project 
“Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating Historical Data to 
Enhance Understanding of Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World”.

The successful candidate should possess a historical focus on the 
history of science, technology, and knowledge transfer across the 
overland or maritime silk roads (focus China) or in cross-cultural 
environmental history of China and/or adjacent regions (including the 
Asia-Pacific), preferably between c. 500 and 1500.
Applications from candidates with a respective focus on cross-cultural 
relations and historical interaction between China, the Indian Ocean, 
Inner Asia, or the Asia-Pacific are especially welcome. The scholarship 
provides an excellent opportunity to work in international and 
interdisciplinary network of scholars working on various aspects of 
Asian connections and interaction, environmental and technological history.