Research Associate in Early Modern Global History

Job reference: HUM-031267
Salary: £37,694 - £46,049 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
Location: Manchester
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: History
Hours Per Week: 1 FTE
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/05/2026
Contract Duration: 21 months
School/Directorate: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

This 21-month Research Associate position sits within the ERC project “INTRECCI: Institutional Transformation and the Entangled Commercial Cultures of International Trade, 1450-1750”. The project sets out to use archives from across the world and an interdisciplinary methodology to deliver a global and intrinsically comparative analysis that will reveal globalisation’s multipolar and adaptive institutional origins. Under the overall framework of the project, the Research Associate will contribute to both the comparative study of the project’s three case-study regions (placed within wider contexts that encompass geographies across much of Africa and Asia) as well as the connected analysis of institutional exchange between them.

The successful applicant will hold a PhD in the field of early modern, global, or economic history, or in another relevant field, ideally with expertise in the history of trade and empire in across geographic and imperial boundaries. They will have working proficiency in relevant languages, and experience working with primary sources in these languages, as well as excellent communication skills in English. The Research Associate will be expected to work closely with Prof Smith and the rest of the project group, composed of two other full-time Research Associates, Dr Mariana Boscariol and Dr Shounak Ghosh.

What will you get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunity employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

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Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Professor Edmond Smith

Email: Edmond.smith@manchester.ac.uk

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