Research Associate Leverhulme RPG

Job description:

This post has been designed for an outstanding research associate in the field of history.

The post-holder will conduct research on the 3-year project ‘The 101st kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory, and mapping’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This project offers the first interdisciplinary investigation of the 101st kilometre in Soviet and post-Soviet cultures, combining expertise from history, cultural studies, and digital humanities. It will analyse and map 101st-kilometre practices of urban exclusion, migration, community–building, and commemoration across Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Russia.

You will be working as part of a UK team led by Professor Polly Jones (PI, University of Oxford) and Dr Miriam Dobson (CoI, University of Sheffield). You will be responsible for the Kazakh case-study and spend ten weeks in Kazakhstan conducting research in archives and museums. You will process, catalogue, and analyse this material; contribute materials to the digital mapping output; and write a single-authored journal article and conference paper based on your case-study. In addition, you will conduct archival research at the Hoover Institution, USA, and in the UK, using digitized and print collections and collaborate with the Oxford-based research associate on the project website.

The project requires a highly motivated research associate, with excellent communication skills and able to produce research at the highest quality and develop the project’s research profile. You will need to have experience of archival research in the former Soviet Union and fluent knowledge of Russian.

You will join a team of researchers in the School and will be line-managed by Dr Miriam Dobson.

The School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities sits within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and combines internationally acknowledged research excellence with modern, imaginative teaching that enables our students to think for themselves and excel in the study of history, philosophy, archaeology and digital humanities.

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