Doctoral researcher in the ERC project \"Racial Socialism\"

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. Thanks to its location in the Rhine-Main science region, the university can unfold to its full potential and showcase its innovative power and dynamism. Its status as a comprehensive university allows for multidisciplinary learning and teaching and has great potential for internationally renowned, interdisciplinary research. Almost all of its institutes are located on a single campus close to the Mainz city center - creating a lively academic culture for researchers, teaching staff, and students from every continent.

Your tasks:

• participation in the scientific research project "Racial Socialism"
• development of a doctoral research project under the theoretical framework of "Racial Socialism"
• conducting independent empirical research on the Red Cross of the German Democratic Republic, or on the Red Cross of Yugoslavia (1945-1990), including archival research, oral histories, coding
• participation in team activities and group analysis
• publishing research results in project publications as well as independently
• participation in project-related conference activities
• other project-related tasks set by the doctoral supervisor

Your profile:

Required:

• A successfully completed university degree (MA) in ethnology, anthropology, folklore or a related discipline
• at least B2 knowledge of German (GDR case study) or Serbo-Croatian, depending on the case study
• fluent English (C2)

Desired:

• knowledge of the anthropology of value, and/or historical anthropology of socialism
• knowledge of Albanian, Macedonian, and/or Slovenian (for the SFRY case study)
• previous experience with archival and/or field research
• peer-reviewed academic publications

In addition to the general requirements according to public services law, applicants must meet the recruitment requirements stipulated in 57 of the Hochschulgesetz of Rhineland-Palatinate.