At the Department of History of the University of Sheffield we are
looking for a highly motivated individual to join our research team on
the AHRC funded project ‘The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late
Antiquity (325-c.600)’, a collaborative international project between
the Universities of Sheffield, Aarhus (Denmark), Halle (Germany) and
Vienna (Austria). You will work as a Research Associate for 36 months,
joining a team led by Principal Investigator Dr Julia Hillner
(Sheffield), and Co-Investigators Professor Jörg Ulrich (University of
Halle) and Dr Jakob Engberg (University of Aarhus).
The
project seeks to investigate the cultural encounters generated by legal
banishment of religious dissidents in late antiquity and their
influence on the institutionalisation of the Christian church in this
period, as expressed in the development of Christian law, doctrine and
ritual.
You will have a PhD
(or equivalent experience) in a relevant subject area together with a
good working knowledge of late antique church history. You will have
excellent knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek, be able to work with
electronic datasets and have excellent communication skills. You will
have research experience in handling a range of late antique sources.
Research
experience in prosopography, knowledge of further ancient languages
(Syriac, Coptic), and knowledge of German are desirable.
This
post is fixed-term for a period of three years and is available from 1
August 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is full-time for
24 months (1.0 fte), and part-time for 12 months thereafter (0.5 fte).
For more information and how to apply see here:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/
The project is also advertising one PhD studentship. For more information, please click here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/history/