University Assistant postdoctoral

Your personal sphere of play:

Your future position is located at the Department of Economic and Social History, which is part of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. The department has an international profile in social history, economic history, historical anthropology, and the history of knowledge. Trans-epochal and transregional approaches as well as interdisciplinary perspectives on economies and societies are part of its intellectual culture.

Your immediate work partners are conducting research on the cultural history of the social in a broad sense, including the history of capitalism (in particular money and debt as social relations), history of the psychological disciplines, colonial history and decolonization, social movements, and the relation between history and social theory.

Your own work is focused on the social and cultural history of Europe, or of Europe in the world, 19th to 20th century. A focus on one of the following areas is desirable though not required: History of capitalism, history of the psyche and the self, colonial history and decolonization, gender history, social movements, Austrian or Habsburg history.

Your future tasks:

Active participation in research, teaching, and administration. This means:

• Your support the Professorship in “Cultural and Social History, 19th-20th Century”
• You work on your further academic qualification with a book project (second book, possibility to prepare and complete a Habilitation).
• You broaden your independent research profile with publications and presentations.
• You teach courses on the levels of BA, MA, and teachers’ certificate (Lehramt) in the discipline of History, and within the scope of the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
• You participate in research projects and academic collaborations within the department and beyond.
• You participate in academic self-administration (committees, workings groups).
• You support the department’s intellectual community, for instance with public engagement.
• You participate in the supervision of BA and MA theses and in examination activities in German and English.