Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has vacancy for a: PhD position: Language contact and genetic relationships in pre-Roman North West Anatolia (1.0 fte; four years; start September 2016) Project Description The Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus form the most important natural boundary between Europe Read more…
The Würzburg Centre for the Study of Ancient Cultures (Würzburger Altertumswissenschaftliches Zentrum – WAZ) advertizes a 4-month resident research fellowship (Postdoc; within 2016; application deadline 22 April 2016). The prospective fellow is expected to conduct independent research on a specific topic within the study of ancient cultures (disciplinary restrictions apply). Read more…
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology and the Ancient World Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University, Providence, RI The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications from exceptional junior scholars who augment or complement the present strengths and diversity of the Joukowsky Read more…
PhD Studentship in British Museum and SOAS AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) in the British Museum and SOAS Deadline: 31 March 2016 AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA): ‘Individuality and identity in cuneiform: personalising economic documentation from the 21st and 20th centuries BC’ Duration of studentship: 3 years (to start 1 Read more…
https://oi.uchicago.edu/collections-research-grant The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary research center whose goal is to integrate archaeological, textual, and art historical data to understand the development and functioning of the ancient civilizations of the Near East from the earliest Holocene through the Medieval period. With more than Read more…
An der Universität Wien (mit 15 Fakultäten, 4 Zentren, rund 188 Studienrichtungen, ca. 9.700 Mitarbeiter/innen und über 92.000 Studierenden) ist ab 01.03.2016 die Position einer/eines Universitätsassistent/in (“post doc”) am Institut für Orientalistik bis 15.08.2016 zu besetzen. Kennzahl der Ausschreibung: 6232 Am Institut für Orientalistik sind ca. 30 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter angestellt. Read more…
(English below) An der Universität Wien (mit 15 Fakultäten, 4 Zentren, rund 188 Studienrichtungen, ca. 9.700 Mitarbeiter/innen und über 92.000 Studierenden) ist ehestmöglich die Position einer/eines Universitätsassistent/in (“post doc”) am Institut für Orientalistik zu besetzen. Kennzahl der Ausschreibung: 6372 Am Institut für Orientalistik sind ca. 30 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter angestellt. Die wichtigsten Read more…
The Research Centre “Religions and Societies in the Mediterranean world” (RESMED), a laboratory of excellence affiliated to Sorbonne University (Paris) offers five (5) one-year RESMED postdoctoral fellowships, starting july 2016. Deadline for applications: 15 March 2016. Eligibility The project will have clearly to fit in the scientific program of the Labex RESMED, Read more…
Oxford-Wolfson Graduate Scholarship in Assyriology Wolfson College is offering a fully-funded post-graduate Scholarship for a student undertaking either a DPhil in Oriental Studies or Archaeology, specialising in Assyriology, or an MPhil in Cuneiform Studies. The Scholarship is to be held at the University of Oxford from the beginning of the Read more…
We are happy to announce the beginning of the ERC Advanced Grant “The Hyksos Enigma” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences – Vienna, under the direction of Prof. Manfred Bietak as Principal Investigator. The second host institution will be Bournemouth University – UK with Prof. Holger Schutkowski as partner. The Read more…