魯汶大學東亞數字考古博士後招聘啓事

The Early Modern History (EMH) Research Group at KU Leuven invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral position in digital archaeology for a project on the social history of material infrastructures (Chinese and East Asian history, 1000-1800).

General description

The postdoctoral position is part of the European Research Council project (#101019509) ‘Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History.’ 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. The project aims to

1) map the appearance and disappearance of large-scale infrastructures across the Chinese and neighbouring territories between 1000 and 1800 based on the extant textual and archaeological record; 

2) conduct spatial analyses of the distribution of particular features of these infrastructures, their construction, maintenance, breakdown, uses and cultural meanings; 

3) compare data derived from the large historical textual record and from modern archaeological reports and the photographic record; 

4) publish research in the fields of history, digital archaeology, and critical infrastructure studies that will substantially revise existing Chinese historiographies of communication and urban networks and contribute to emerging historiographies that place socio-economic and cultural developments in regional contexts and cross- border contact zones; 

5) develop an event-based digital annotation method that will be generalized and made available for broader use in digital humanities projects in various languages; 

6) foster broader debate about the past and present uses and meanings of imperial infrastructures and about the uses of the digitization of material infrastructures.

Responsibilities

The postdoctoral fellow will be mainly responsible for 1) collecting and analysing secondary and theoretical literature on the archaeology of pre-twentieth-century Chinese infrastructures; 2) digitally annotating archaeological reports on historic infrastructures; 3) analysing and modelling archaeological and textual data in relation to each other; 4) (co-)authoring of one article on 3.

Profile

•PhD in the field of archaeology with expertise in Chinese or East Asian materials

• advanced reading skills in modern Chinese 

• a strong interest in and ideally experience with digital research methods including text mining, GIS, network analysis, and machine learning

• a strong interest in and ideally experience with comparative historical research

• a cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research

• excellent presentation and writing skills in English

Offer

EMH offers an environment where intellectual creativity and independence thrive. We promote the lively exchange of ideas, and provide strong intellectual, moral, and logistical support to our PhD students, postdocs, and other collaborators. 

The appointment concerns an employment contract of 1 fte for one year. The start date is October 1, 2022, but the exact start date is negotiable.

Remuneration is in accordance with the official Belgian scales for academic personnel and bursaries, which offer internationally highly competitive pay (see https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/en  for more information).

Your application should include:

-a letter of interest explaining how your background matches the criteria and how you aim to contribute to the project

-a CV

-a writing sample (a thesis chapter or article, ideally in English)

-a copy of your diploma and authorized grade transcript

-two letters of recommendation to be sent to [e-mail]

For more information please contact Prof. dr. Hilde De Weerdt, tel.: [phone], mail: [e-mail].

You can apply for this job no later than July 15, 2022 via the online application tool

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at [e-mail].

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