Location: | Cambridge, Hybrid |
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Salary: | £36,024 to £44,263 pro rata, per annum |
Hours: | Part Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 8th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 21st April 2024 |
Job Ref: | GU41180 |
The Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge invites applications for a part-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of the History and Languages of the Eastern Anatolia region.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate would work in the research team of the ERC-funded project 'Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East' (ALHOME) supervised by Professor Geoffrey Khan. The project aims to reconstruct the complex, socioreligious past of Aramaic-speaking and Kurdish-speaking communities in Western Asia through a study of the history and interrelationship of their languages.
Key activities associated with the role include:
The successful candidate should hold a PhD either in the history of Anatolia or in one or more Indo-European languages of Anatolia with a track record in:
Expertise in the linguistic and social history of Eastern Anatolian.
A basic familiarity with Aramaic and/or Iranian would be an advantage.
The post holder will be located at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, UK.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31st August 2025. This is the Grant End Date.
The position is advertised at Part-Time: 0.4 FTE with flexible hours. Hybrid working will be possible.
Ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) with publications and a covering letter in the upload section of the online application. Please include the names of two referees. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.
If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Professor Geoffrey Khan at gk101@cam.ac.uk. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the School HR Team on sahhr@admin.cam.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is midnight (BST) on Sunday 21 March 2024. Interviews are planned for late April/early May 2024, subject to change.
To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click on the Apply button above.
Please quote reference GU41180 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
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