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Global challenges such as climate change, increased inequality, poverty, conflicts, breaches of human rights and citizens’ concerns about identity, cannot be solved from the perspective of a single discipline. UGlobe, the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, a joint initiative of the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, brings together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines to study these challenges and propose innovative solutions.
The Centre explores possible new insights at the intersections of four central research domains: Human Rights, Conflict and Security, Sustainability and Development and Equity. These strongly inter-related domains are approached within the overarching theme of global challenges and the contested global order, by means of following disciplines: Law (international and European), Economics, History, International Relations, Philosophy and International Governance Studies.
We are looking for two designated Chairs at the heart of UGlobe:
Chair in Comparative Global History and
Chair in Global Economic Challenges
Full Professor in Comparative Global History
The Chair in Comparative Global History will be based in the Department of History and Art History at the Faculty of Humanities. The Chair focuses on global challenges from a comparative perspective, an, emerging area of interdisciplinary research.
The Chair will connect historical expertise with insights from other disciplines in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Law and/or Geography. The Chair investigates the role of social, political, economic and/or cultural Institutions, understood broadly as clusters of formal and informal rules shaped in and by societies. (Formal rules might include laws and regulations, but also organizational forms that steer societies informal rules may encompass norms, customs, beliefs and routines, but also social and cultural networks.)
For this Chair, interdisciplinary research means combining conceptual and theoretical analyses as well as interpretative and empirical methods. Given its comparative approach, the Chair combines local, national and/or European perspectives with a global outlook.
Successful candidates should have:
We offer a position for five years in an international working environment. The salary - depending on previous qualifications and experience - ranges from € 5,334 to € 7,766 (scale H2 according to the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities) gross per month for a full-time employment. Salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and and a year-end allowance of 8.3% per year. In addition, Utrecht University offers excellent secondary conditions, including an attractive retirement scheme, (partly paid) parental leave and flexible employment conditions (multiple choice model). More information: working at Utrecht University.
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