PhD studentship for Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922 (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a 3-year funded doctoral studentship offered to start in October 2023. The successful applicant will work on a collaborative project led by Dr Peter McMurray at the Faculty of Music (Cambridge).
The project offers the opportunity to conduct PhD research into histories of sound and audiovisual media in the late Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean (1789-1922), focusing on how sonic practices and their mediations through technical systems produced important new cultural shifts.