For the project Voices of Resistance in collaboration with the project The Global Business of Slave Trade (by Filipa Ribeiro da Silva) we are looking for
- a Postdoc researcher who will work with us on research on enslavement, slavery and racialization in the early modern world. We are especially looking for a researcher who fits with our collaborative approach of academic research, and will add to the team by bringing in expertise on archives and literature of (parts of) the Atlantic or wider Indian Ocean world, and with the command of Portuguese, French or Spanish languages.
More info: https://iisg.amsterdam/nl/blog/postdoc-global-history-slavery - a Junior researcher who is eager to learn to develop text-recognition (htr) for digitized early modern colonial archives on a large scale with existing (GLOBALISE) methods.
More info: Junior Researcher HTR for Colonial Archives and Slavery Studies – IISG Job Details | KNAW
The IISH offers a lively research environment with several projects on the history of slavery, slave trade and colonialism.
The deadline is 13 October 2024.