Job Radboud University Nijmegen - Two PhD researchers for Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation

As a junior researcher (PhD candidate), you will participate in the NWO research project “Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1420-1620”. This project investigates how Europe’s main missionary orders (Dominicans, Franciscans, Capuchins and Jesuits) helped construct a confessionalised, disciplined religious identity within Catholic Europe between the early fifteenth and the early seventeenth centuries. In this project, two sub-projects for junior researchers are defined. One junior researcher position involves the subject “Catechistic programmes for the laity (15th-17th centuries)”. The other junior researcher position is on the sub-project “Narratives of self-understanding within the missionary orders”.

You should have: - an MA degree (or equivalent), preferably in medieval, renaissance or early modern history, the history of philosophy, or the history of theology; - sufficient knowledge of Latin and modern European languages to read the sources and the relevant secondary literature (knowledge of Dutch is no prerequisite); - sufficient command of the English language to present research results orally and in writing; - the ability to work with large and diversified source corpora; - the ability and willingness to collaborate within the project team.

The gross starting salary is €2,042 per month based on full-time employment. The total duration of the contract is 3.5 years. You will be offered an initial contract for 18 months with the possibility of extension by 2 years. The sub-projects are scheduled to start on October 1st, 2010.

Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University Nijmegen is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.

Radboud University Nijmegen is strategically located in Europe and is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Established in 1923 and situated in the oldest city of the Netherlands, it has nine faculties and over 17,500 students enrolled in 107 study programmes. Our personal style of teaching offers plenty of opportunity to work closely with instructors and fellow students in small seminars. It’s a place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place, on a beautiful leafy campus, in modern buildings, with state-of-the-art facilities. The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2,900 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research. The Department of History currently has approx. 600 full-time students and 53 teachers and researchers. Its activities include teaching and research in a wide range of historical domains. The post-doctoral researcher will report to the Department’s section of Medieval History, the research activities of which are embedded in the in the research programme Culture, Religion and Memory of the Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (HLCS) research institute of the Faculty of Arts.

Radboud University Nijmegen

Prof. dr. P. Raedts, Chairman of the Advisory Appointment
024 3612910
p.raedts@let.ru.nl

Dr. B. Roest
024 3611753
b.roest@let.ru.nl