Post-doc position in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw, application deadline: 31 March 2025

Post-doc position in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw, application deadline: 31 March 2025
24-month-post-doc position in the field of art history, history, cultural studies or sociology to work in the project Discourses on Body in Jewish Culture in the Polish Lands between 1880 and 1939 (more info on the project:https://corporeality.uwr.edu.pl/start_en)
Administration unit: Taube Department of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Position: assistant professor
Number of positions: 1
Scientific discipline of the research: history, literary studies, cultural studies
Information on staff group in which a person will be employed: researchers
Scientific discipline: history, literary studies, cultural studies
Academic discipline: Humanities
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
Expected date of assessment the applications: 20 April 2025
Expected fellowship start: June 2025
Period of employment: 24 months
Type of employment: full-time
Salary: 8875 PLN gross payroll (taxes included) per month
The employment is offered in the framework of the project Discourses on Body in Jewish Culture in the Polish Lands between 1880 and 1939 funded by the National Science Centre, Poland under the grant no UMO-2022/47/B/HS2/01522
PI of the project is Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała PhD
Requirements:
  1. PhD in Humanities in history, literary studies or cultural studies received in 2018 or later.
  2. Academic publications (at least one first-author publication in a recognized peer-reviewed international journals).
  3. Expertise in Jewish culture and history in the Russian Empire
  4. Academic interests focused on gender, anthropology of body
  5. Experience in archival surveys
  6. Experience in working with ego-documents
  7. Analytical and synthesising skills
  8. Experience in team work
  9. At least reading fluency in Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian
  10. At least B2 level of English
Responsibilities:
In research area:
  1. Survey on discourses on body in Jewish culture in literary, ego-documents and press sources written in Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian between 1880 and 1939
  2. Analysis and interpretation of collected sources using the tools of gender theory, anthropological approach to body, comparative analysis, archival analysis and source criticism
  3. Selection of sources for the anthology
  4. Participation in team meetings
  5. Following the latest academic reports in local and international journals
  6. Submission of academic articles
  7. Active participation in academic conferences
In teaching area: none: due to the research character of the post-doc fellowship in the framework of the project.
In organisational area
  1. Participation in academic meetings and seminars
  2. Preparation of academic publications
  3. Active participation in academic conferences
  4. Dissemination actions to academic and non-academic audiences
  5. Supporting of PhD students and post graduate students
To submit an application visit: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/313610