Open Positions

2

Time Span

01 Apr 2025 for 3 years

Application Deadline

10 Oct 2024

Financing

yes

Areas of study

Art History, Musicology, African Philologies, African Studies, Pre-Columbian American Philologies, Pre-Columbian American Studies, Greek Studies, Latin Studies, Book Science, Museum Studies, Documentation Science, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnology, German Studies, Ancient History, Ancient Studies, Ancient Oriental Studies, Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, History, Mediaeval History, Early Modern History, Modern History, History of Science, Egyptology, Ancient, Digital Media, Finnish Studies, Hungarian Studies, Caucasian Studies, Arabic Studies, Indology, Iranian Studies, Persian, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Oriental Studies, Semitic Studies, Turkology, Turkish, Egyptology, Modern, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, East Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Philologies, Chinese Studies, Central Asian Philologies, Philosophy, Ethics, Asian Studies, Australia and Oceania, European Studies, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, North American Studies, Food Chemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics

Description

The Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg, invites applications for doctoral scholarships within the Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for a 3-year period of doctoral studies starting from 1 April 2025 onwards.

Awardees will receive a full scholarship (1300 EUR/month) plus health insurance and additional allowances.

We are looking for highly qualified, very motivated English-speaking international candidates, in particular from the Global South, who hold a Master’s degree in any discipline concerned with the study of manuscript cultures or written artefacts, regardless of region. An exemplary list of disciplines from the humanities, natural sciences and computer sciences can be found here

Who cannot apply?

• Researchers who have already obtained a PhD or have completed substantial parts of their doctoral studies at another institution
• Persons who have obtained their Master's Degree more than 6 years ago
• Persons who have been living in Germany for 15 months or longer at the time of nomination (November 2024)
• German citizens

CSMC as a research environment

The Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) at the CSMC is a cross-disciplinary and international research project for the holistic study of handwritten artefacts (such as manuscript and inscriptions). Our main objective is to investigate the rich diversity of global manuscript cultures beyond traditionally held boundaries of academic discipline, time, and space. Our global perspective encompasses all objects carrying handwriting, from the beginning of writing to today’s digital age.

Doctoral studies at CSMC

CSMC offers attractive study programmes for young researchers from around the world. This includes the structured three-year Doctoral Programme. Through colloquia, lectures and workshops, the 3-year structured programme provides systematic access to various research methods involved in the study of written artefacts from across the humanities and the natural and computer sciences, while emphasizing the need for collaboration between these disciplines for an integrated approach. 

In addition, we train doctoral researchers in Good Research Practice and Research Data Management, offer writing and presentation courses as well as career orientation events.

All courses are taught in English, but we encourage researchers to learn some German for their everyday life in Hamburg, and offer our own German course to support this.

In the programme “Understanding Written Artefacts”, international and German researchers work and learn together. It provides an excellent basis for exciting career opportunities in and beyond academia, in Germany and abroad.