Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Research Assistant within UCD School of History.
This is a twelve-months research assistantship for the ERC-Consolidator Grant project `Global Capitalism and Rurality: Agency, Commodification and Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Middle Eastern Countryside, 1870-1945' (CAPITALEAST). CAPITALEAST compares the Middle Eastern tribes of diverse origins (Syria, Iraq, Southern Turkey and Northern Arabia) examining the `capitalization' of their agriculture and the commercialization of their livestock. It adopts a translocal and global approach to reveal the connectedness of the diverse social entities to the wider world like the nomadic, semi-settled and settled tribes living in cultivable, desert, and mountainous ecologies. The project examines intertwined processes such as commodification, the scientification of cultivation and animal breeding, mechanization of agriculture, `automobilization', and new patterns of land ownerships among the tribal communities of the Middle East resulted in an impressive repositioning of tribal agency in the physical environment and a noticeable increase in state-society, urban-rural and global-local relations.
Salary: €34,129 per annum.
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 08/10/2026.
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.
Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/