Interested in researching the diplomatic history of global north-south public health cooperation in a vibrant team? Join us at the ERC-funded project COOPERATION as a PhD researcher.
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Utrecht University invites applications for a PhD position in the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Fighting Pandemics from Below: Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942 [COOPERATION]”
As a PhD candidate you will be working on a subproject within the Consolidator Grant project COOPERATION (2024-2029) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and directed by Dr Ozan Ozavci (Principal Investigator, PI) at the Department of History and Art History. COOPERATION project will recapture the lost archives and historical knowledge of international public health cooperation between the ‘global north’ and the ‘global south’ by analysing its first and longest-lasting instances: the sanitary councils in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Established in Tangier, Alexandria, Tunis, Istanbul and Tehran, these unprecedented institutions strategised against waves of epidemics and pandemics between the 1790s and the 1940s. Their European, American and native co-founders invented new models for fighting pandemics from below and stopping the diseases in their tracks. They continually strove to overcome the familiar barriers to cooperation posed by inter-imperial competition in a multipolar world, economic inequities, protests against quarantine restrictions and racial and Orientalist biases, among others. COOPERATION project will write an entangled history of health cooperation, by shifting the focus from top-down to bottom-up processes. Consulting archival sources in Europe, MENA, and North America, it will determine the historical preconditions for effective international public health cooperation.
You will examine the diplomatic history and dynamics of public health cooperation with a focus on the sanitary council in Istanbul or Tehran or Tunis. Practically this means that you will:
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For more information, please contact Dr Ozan Ozavci at h.o.ozavci@uu.nl.
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As Utrecht University, we want to be a home for everyone. We value staff with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and identities, including cultural, religious or ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strive to create a safe and inclusive environment in which everyone can flourish and contribute.
To apply, please send your curriculum vitae, and a letter of motivation in which you clearly explain how you intend to contribute to the project, via the 'apply now' button. Please indicate which sanitary council your intended PhD project will focus on.
The candidates who will be invited for an interview will be asked to provide two reference letters sent directly by their references.
The interviews will take place in the week of 8 July 2024. The expected start date of the position is 1 September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The application deadline is 28 June 2024.
Candidates for this vacancy will be recruited by Utrecht University.
Qualification Type: | PhD |
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Location: | Utrecht - Netherlands |
Funding for: | UK Students, EU Students, International Students |
Funding amount: |
€2,770
to €3,539
£2,409.33 to £3,078.21 converted salary* gross monthly |
Hours: | Full Time |
Placed On: | 22nd May 2024 |
Closes: | 28th June 2024 |
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