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PhD Candidate on the Transimperial History of Women’s Work (1600-1900)

Erasmus University Rotterdam · Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Project description

Official university vacancy imported from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Details are presented for discovery and may change. Confirm the latest requirements and apply on the official source.

  • Pernambuco
  • Atlantic Africa (for example, Senegambia, Gold Coast, or Angola)
  • Contributing to building and curating multilingual, trans-imperial, diachronic datasets focused on historical evidence of women’s work (including handwritten and printed archival material)
  • Using Transkribus for transcription of texts in Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, Spanish, and/or Danish (depending on your linguistic expertise) and conducting manual corrections of the transcription results
  • Conducting qualitative analyses using interpretivist/social reproduction/intersectional approaches
  • Conducting quantitative analyses using computational/digital humanities/statistical methods
  • Presenting your research at conferences
  • Publishing findings both as co-authored and single authored peer-reviewed articles as part of your article-based PhD dissertation
  • Teaching at the history department.

Funding and compensation

Paid position. See the original posting for amounts, duration and conditions.

Eligibility and application requirements

Review the qualifications, research interests and required documents in the description above. The employer or university's original posting is the source for complete eligibility requirements.

How to apply

Submit your application through Erasmus University Rotterdam's official application process before 2026-09-20.

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Source and listing information

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