PhD researcher in the social history of material infrastructures @IISH

Updated: almost 2 years ago
Job Type: Temporary
Deadline: 15 May 2022

General description

The PHD position is part of a project on the social history of material infrastructures. This project examines how large-scale infrastructures such as roads, city walls, and bridges contributed to regional and empire-wide integration, but equally why and how processes of integration regularly broke down, and how large-scale infrastructure projects contributed to countervailing trends including local tensions, local autonomy, and cross-border regional formations. Read the project abstract here: The Lives and Afterlives of Imperial Material Infrastructure in Southeastern China

The doctoral student will be mainly responsible for 1) authoring a PHD thesis on the social history of material infrastructures; 2) collaborating with other members of the research team on data collection, annotation, curation, and analysis of city walls, roads or bridges; 3) learning new theoretical literatures and research methods and contributing to the joint research of all team members; 4) assisting in the organization of workshops and outreach events.



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