PhD student/Research associate position at Ruhr-Universität Bochum/ERC Project "LOOP", for 4 years, part-time

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Dear colleagues,

The Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum is looking for a Research Associate/PhD student (f/m/x) for 4 years (project end: 31.08.2027). The deadline for applications is 2 May 2023. The position begins 1 September 2023.

The PhD project will complement the analysis of social differentiation in the ERC funded project “Late Ottoman Palestinians: Social and Cultural Dynamics in an Eastern Mediterranean Society during the Age of Empire, 1880-1920” (LOOP) with a study on landownership, property, and income in late Ottoman Palestine. The PhD candidate will be based in Bochum and work on the economic history of late Ottoman Palestine, supervised by Professor Johann Büssow. Ideally, the second supervisor will be an economic historian.

Job description + details

Project homepage: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/orient/forschung/loop.html.en

Best regards,

Nils Riecken
 
 
Research fellow (Postdoc)
ERC funded project “Late Ottoman Palestinians: Social and Cultural Dynamics in an Eastern Mediterranean Society during the Age of Empire, 1880-1920” (LOOP)
Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum