Phd Position in History
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**SNSF Consolidator Grant project “The Battle of Materials: Commodity 'Research and Propaganda' and the Road to Immoderate Consumption, 1900-1980”**
The Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel, founded in 1993, analyses the relationships of Switzerland and Europe in a globally connected world through research and teaching. As an interdisciplinary institution, it combines expertise from political science, economics, philosophy, history and law. The University of Basel has an international reputation of outstanding achievements in research and teaching. Founded in 1460, the University of Basel is the oldest university in Switzerland and has a history of success going back over 550 years.
The Consolidator Grant project examines the key processes, actors and cultural accommodations that drove unprecedented levels of natural resource consumption in industrial societies in the 20th century. Offering an innovative new material history of tropical and synthetic rubber and other industrial materials, the project explores the transformative practices that industrial research & development brought to the twentieth-century marketplace and the world economy as a whole. The team will address various aspects of resource overuse and the ways in which consumer expectations and material path dependencies have evolved as a key part of the “Great Acceleration” of human impacts on the global environment.
**Your position**
**Your profile**
- She/he should be keen to learn new skills, be open to collaborative work, and be eager to actively participate in the team efforts and long-term goals. These include the conceptualization and preparation of a public museum exhibition that will build on the research results of the Consolidator project.
**We offer you**
- We offer a fully funded doctoral position (100%, for 1 plus 3 years) at the Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
- The salary and social benefits will be provided according to the rules of the University of Basel.
- All team members can rely on already secured travel grants to conduct their research internationally.
**Application / Contact**
Interviews will be conducted in person or via Zoom in late May 2025 / mid-June 2025. The expected starting date is September 1, 2025 (or by mutual agreement).
The University of Basel is an equal opportunity employer and it values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, marital status, disability status, race, national origin, color, gender, sexual orientation or religion.
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