Job Radboud University Nijmegen - Postdoctoral researcher

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will participate in the sub-project “The Homiletic Construction of a Disciplined Religious Subject (15th-17th C.)”, which is part of 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 in Catholic Europe between the early fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

You must have: - a PhD 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 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; - a good track record of working in teams.

The total duration of the contract is 3 years. You will be offered an initial contract for 1 year, with the possibility of extension by 2 years. You may be asked to give a sample lecture or to take part in an assessment as part of the selection procedure. The salary dependent on qualifications and work experience between €3,195 and €4,374 gross per month based on full-time employment.

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 2,800 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 postdoctoral researcher will report to the Department’s section of Medieval History, the research activities of which are embedded in the research programme “Culture, Religion and Memory” of the Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (HLCS) research institute at the Faculty of Arts.

Radboud University Nijmegen

Prof. Dr Peter Raedts, Chairman of the Advisory Appointment
+31 24 3612910
p.raedts@let.ru.nl

Dr Bert Roest, Secretary of the Advisory Appointment Committee
+31 24 3611753
b.roest@let.ru.nl

http://www.ru.nl/facultyofarts