Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is a large, dynamic faculty in the heart of the city of Groningen. It contains more than 5,000 students and 700 staff members, who are working at the frontiers of knowledge every day. The Faculty offers a wide range of degree programmes: 15 bachelor’s (BA) programmes and over 40 master’s (MA) tracks. Our research, which is internationally widely acclaimed, covers the following fields: Archaeology, Cultural Studies, History, International Relations, Journalism, Language and Literary Studies, and Linguistics. For more information, visit our website
www.rug.nl/let/
The University of Groningen has an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative institution of higher education that offers high-quality teaching and research. Well-balanced career paths in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the University’s 31,000 students and researchers to develop their own individual talents. Belonging among the best research universities in Europe and joining forces with prestigious partner universities and networks, the University of Groningen is truly an international place of knowledge.
Teaching in the Faculty of Arts is organised into five clusters of degree programmes. Each cluster has its own Cluster Board that is responsible for educational and financial policy. The teaching conducted under this Assistant Professor role will form part of one of the clusters. The degree programmes within this cluster are: BA in History, BA in American Studies, BA in Classical Studies, BA in Middle Eastern Studies, BA in Archaeology, MA in History Today, MA in American Studies, MA in Middle Eastern Studies, MA in Classics, MA in Archaeology, Research Master’s (ReMa) in History/Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and a ReMa in Archaeology.
The research conducted under this Assistant Professor role will form part of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology/Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture/Center for Language and Cognition. Additional information about these research institutes can be found via the following links:
https://www.rug.nl/research/groningen-institute-of-archaeology/
https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/
https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/
Teaching clusters and research institutes are connected through the teaching and research at the departmental level. The Department of History is an active and international teaching and research group, consisting of approximately 45 people.