General description

The postdoc position is part of a project on the social history of material infrastructures. This project examines how large-scale infrastructures such as roads, city walls, and bridges contributed to regional and empire-wide integration, but equally why and how processes of integration regularly broke down, and how large-scale infrastructure projects contributed to countervailing trends including local tensions, local autonomy, and cross-border regional formations. Read the project abstract here: The Lives and Afterlives of Imperial Material Infrastructure in Southeastern China

The postdoctoral fellow will be mainly responsible for 1) the spatial and network analysis of historical and archeological data provided by other team members; 2) analysing and modelling archaeological and textual data in relation to each other; 3) (co-)authoring of articles with other team members on the regional history of infrastructures; 4) collaborating with other team members and international partners on the design of a spatial analysis platform

Job requirements

• PhD in the field of digital archaeology, digital history, digital humanities, spatial analysis or comparable
• demonstrable advanced knowledge of GIS, network analysis, and statistics
• a strong interest in and ideally experience with comparative historical research
• a cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research
• excellent presentation and writing skills in English
• reading skills in Chinese is a plus but is not required

Fixed-term contract: 1 jaar.

Appointment

The appointment concerns an employment contract of 1 fte for a period of two years. The start date is January 1, 2023, but the exact start date is negotiable.

Terms of employment

Depending on relevant work experience, the gross monthly salary ranges between € 2.846 and
€ 4.490 based on a fulltime appointment (salary scale 10 CAO Dutch Universities). The salary is supplemented with an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable.

KNAW offers an attractive pension scheme, 6 weeks of holiday per year, the possibility to buy or sell holiday leave, as well as career development opportunities.