Please have a look at the
following job offer by the University of Heidelberg, Germany. The deadline for
applications is the 19th of
June:
Postdoctoral
Position in Ancient Studies within the University of Heidelberg's
Collaborative Research Center 933 "Materiale Textkulturen".
Start
date: July 2015 (or as soon as possible thereafter)
Assignments: The
position is embedded in the research project “Writing on Ostraca in the Inner
and Outer Mediterranean”. The aim of the project is to produce a synthetic
study of the practice of inscribing texts on ceramic sherds (ostraca) across
different ancient cultures of the Mediterranean or connected areas. To this
end, the project aims to study ostraca not simply as texts that just happen to
be preserved on sherds, but as artifacts produced, used, and reused within a
specific socio-cultural milieu and subject to a particular life cycle. Such
issues as the choice of the writing medium, the ceramological composition of
the material, peculiarities of circulation, and the relation of ostraca to
other modes of writing and transmission of information are among topics that
could be addressed both diachronically and synchronically.
Results of the
research are to be published in a monograph.
Requirements:
Candidates should have a PhD in Ancient History, Classics, Egyptology, or
Archeology with some experience in documentary papyrology and/or epigraphy and
museum studies and/or fieldwork. Applicants should also show willingness to
engage in intensive interdisciplinary cooperation within the Collaborative
Research Center. Basic knowledge of German is recommended but not required.
The successful
candidate will be employed full-time within the Collaborative Research Center
at the University of Heidelberg and will work closely with members of the
Center for Ancient Studies (http://www.zaw.uni-hd.de/). Applications should be sent not
later than June 19, 2015 by email to Dr. Julia
Lougovaya: lougovaya@uni-heidelberg.de. Applicants should submit a CV, a
publication list, a short letter of intent describing their interest in the
project and qualification, and addresses of three potential referees.
The salary is in
accordance with TV-L, and the position will run until 30 June 2019.
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