PhD position in Roman History and Archaeology (Groningen)
Applications are invited for a fully-funded four-year PhD position in the field of Roman History and Archaeology. The envisioned project focuses on wealth concentration and political integration of the provincial elites in the Roman Empire.
Recent research suggests that the elites from a few particular provinces were preferentially integrated into the top political networks of the Roman Empire (the senate at Rome). There is a clear relationship between access to these political networks and the accumulation of large personal wealth. This PhD project explores the broader socio-economic context in which these elites were accumulating the required capital for entry into the Roman senate. The core of the project constitutes a comparison of the socio-economic background of elite wealth accumulation in two Roman provinces: the politically well-integrated province Hispania Baetica and the politically less-integrated province Hispania Tarraconensis. For these two provinces, the project investigates the level of regional economic integration (using for example settlement hierarchies and/or infrastructural networks) and the demographic/agricultural structure (using, for example, field survey or site excavation data). The project results will provide a detailed framework to understand the regional variation in wealth accumulation and political participation across the Roman empire. A more elaborate description of the project framework is available upon request (see contact details below).
For the full advert and to apply, https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/wo
For more details, please contact Tymon de Haas (tymon.de.haas@rug.nl) and/or Bart Danon (b.danon@rug.nl)
Two PhD scholarships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Freie Universität Berlin
The Berlin Graduate school of Ancient Studies is offering two doctor
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IRC postgraduate and Post-doctoral awards 2025 call
The Irish Research Council's 2025 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship and Postdoctoral Fellowships schemes opened on 29 August with a candidate deadline of Thursday 10 October, 16:00 Irish time. For further information, please see: http://research.ie/funding/
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Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme | Funding | Irish Research Council.
As in previous years, the School of Histories and Humanities has set a compulsory internal School check deadline for both postgraduate and postdoctoral applications. This deadline is Thursday 3 October at 16:00 Irish time (a week before the candidate deadline).
Applicants must save a pre-final draft of their online application in pdf format and send it as an email attachment, copying their supervisor/mentor whose feedback the application needs already to have incorporated (see below). Postgraduate applicants, please send this to the Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning, Dr Rachel Moss, at rmoss@tcd.ie. Postdoctoral applicants, please send it to the Director of Research, Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne at lindsey.earner@tcd.ie
Please name the file in the format ‘YourNameIRC2025’. The School will check your application and confirm that you have School endorsement to continue to submit to the IRC.
The School check is compulsory. The Head of School will not endorse applications that have not been submitted to the School for checking.
The School check is a check of your completed application: it does not offer applicants detailed constructive feedback on the contents of their application; it checks compliance with key IRC requirements only. Supervisors/mentors are best placed to help improve the project-specific and general contents of applications, and applicants are expected to incorporate the feedback of their prospective supervisor/mentor before submitting their application to the School.
School and Trinity Long Room Hub (TLRH) guidance documents for applicants, to be consulted in addition to the documentation provided by the IRC, are attached to this message. There will be no TLRH information session this year due to staff changeover.
Supervisors working with postgraduate applicants who are not current research students in the School must alert them that they must additionally apply for admission to the relevant PhD programme in the School at http://www.tcd.ie/courses/
postgraduate/research/schools/ historieshumanities by 17 October. PhD applications for September 2025 entry should be possible by that date; if not, we’ll advise. The application must be at least initiated in the online application system for school endorsement of the IRC application; supplementary documents, such as transcripts, can follow later.
PT Tutor Vacancy: Ancient Greek (Dept for Continuing Education, University of Oxford)
Role: Tutor of Ancient Greek
Location: Online
Rates of pay: Per hour, currently under review.
Hours: Part-time
Closes: 12 September 2024, 12pm
We specialise in education to adult learners and we are seeking a part-time tutor to teach on our online Ancient Greek courses. Applicants should be able to teach at all levels. These are part-time courses, and tutors’ duties include teaching live online, setting assessment tasks, marking and providing feedback on coursework, and dealing with administrative tasks relevant to the course. In addition to the 10-week one-hour long live sessions, the appointee will be required to record videos to cover the tutor’s weekly input. The one-hour pre-recorded lecture for each week will need to reflect the advertised syllabus/weekly schedule.
The recordings will be prepared using Canvas and Panopto (or any other newly introduced platform) and tutors are expected to be visible in the videos.
We are specifically seeking candidates who are familiar with the latest developments and debates in the discipline.
Essential criteria for the role:
A relevant post-graduate qualification or equivalent professional experience in the subject area.
Experience of teaching and assessment in Higher Education.
Excellent organisation and communication skills to undertake the responsibilities of the role
Ability to work effectively with academic and professional services colleagues demonstrating well-developed interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria:
Familiarity with pedagogic methods in lifelong learning
The Department for Continuing Education welcomes people from all backgrounds, at all times of life, actively promoting an inclusive culture of equality, diversity and respect. We inspire people locally, nationally and globally by extending access to Oxford’s world-class teaching and resources through flexible and inclusive opportunities for study and research. We acknowledge the diverse needs, experience and ambitions of our students and staff, and work together to ensure a mutually supportive professional and learning community. Please see our mission and values for more information.
Please submit a cover letter and CV to personnel@conted.ox.ac.uk no later than noon on 12 September 2024 including ‘Ancient Greek tutor’ in the subject header.
If you would like to discuss the post, contact Dr Mashail Ali: (mashail.ali@conted.ox.ac.uk),
We expect interviews to take place shortly after the closing date, in the week commencing 16 September.
University of Chicago: Tenure track search in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World
Call for applications
The Department of History at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World to start on or after July 1, 2025. We welcome applications from candidates who either are ABD or hold a recent PhD in a relevant field working on any aspect of the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, broadly construed.
Qualifications
Candidates must have earned the PhD degree in a relevant field prior to the start of the appointment.
Application Instructions
Applicants must apply online at the University of Chicago’s Interfolio website at
http://apply.interfolio.com/15
Consideration of applications will begin on October 1, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed.
Application Process
This institution is using Interfolio's Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All University departments and institutes are charged with building a faculty from a diversity of backgrounds and with diverse viewpoints; with cultivating an inclusive community that values freedom of expression; and with welcoming and supporting all their members. We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/s
The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-834-3988 or email equalopportunity@uchicago.edu with their request.
For inquiries, please contract the chair of the search committee, Richard Payne (email: repayne@uchicago.edu).
Postdoctoral Fellowships at University College Dublin
The School of Classics at University College Dublin (UCD) welcomes enquiries from suitably qualified candidates for the Irish Research Council’s Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.
Successful applicants receive:
a salary of €46,305 in the first year of the award and €47,879 in the second year of the award (if a two-year award is sought);
employer’s PRSI contribution;
eligible direct research expenses of €5,000 per annum.
This highly competitive programme provides outstanding postdoctoral researchers with the opportunity to direct their own research project, in their chosen area of interest, working with a mentor, at eligible Higher Education Institutions in Ireland. Pioneering proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research or those introducing creative, innovative approaches are welcomed. Proposals of an interdisciplinary nature are also encouraged as it is recognised that advancing fundamental understanding is achieved by integrating information, techniques, tools and perspectives from two or more disciplines.
Applications will only be accepted through the IRC’s online application
Eligible individuals should, in the first instance, contact a potential supervisor in the School of Classics (listed below) to discuss a proposed project as soon as possible.
General enquiries about applying to UCD Classics should be addressed to: conor.trainor1@ucd.ie
Research interests of the members of the School are summarised below and profiles are available at: https://www.ucd.ie/
· Dr Martin Brady: Latin epic poetry (especially Ovid and Lucan), epic tradition, classical reception.
· Dr Jo Day: Aegean Bronze Age archaeology; Greek archaeology; early ceramic technology; eating and drinking in antiquity; sensory archaeology.
· Assoc. Prof. Philip de Souza: Political, social and economic history, esp. warfare, seafaring and piracy.
· Dr Helen Dixon: transmission and reception of Latin literature (especially in the fifteenth-century); Latin palaeography; history of classical scholarship.
· Assoc. Prof. Aude Doody: ancient scientific, medical and technical writing; Roman cultural and intellectual history; ecohistory; Classical reception; Roman historiography.
· Dr Christopher Farrell: Xenophon, fifth- and fourth-century Greek history and historiography, and ancient political thought
· Prof. Michael Lloyd: Greek literature, especially drama; politeness theory; reception of Greek drama in Ireland.
· Dr Bridget Martin: Greek tragedy, death in Classical Greece, funerary iconography, widening participation and outreach.
· Dr Alexander Thein: Late Roman Republican - Augustan politics and culture, especially the civil war violence of the 80s BC; Sulla; political violence.
· Dr Conor Trainor: Hellenistic and Roman Greece, Greek and Roman pottery, ancient cities, ancient economies, urban sustainability, and ancient resource systems.
