Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in the field of Contemporary European History

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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The PhD student will be a member of the C²DH, the world’s largest research centre for digital history. The student will work under the supervision of Prof. Dr Machteld Venken as part of the research project “Transnational popular culture – Europe in the long 1960s” supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Germany and the National Research Fund (FNR) in Luxembourg. The aim of the project is to analyse European cultural transfers from a transnational and transregional perspective in the “long” 1960s. The PhD candidate will develop a case study on the national, transregional and transnational history of the Luxembourg City Fun Fair (Schueberfouer or Schobermesse).

Research and write a thesis on the history of the Luxembourg City Fun Fair / Schueberfouer

Conduct thesis research using digital sources, tools and/or methods, oral history and participant observation

Conduct a research visit to Chicago (USA)


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