SUN Project Postdoctoral position
The SUN Project is currently accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellow!
A brief description of the position is below. To apply and read further details about the job, click here!
Field of subject for the position: History
Placement: Växjö, Sweden
Extent and time period: Full-time 2 years
Starting date: According to agreement, but no later than 1 September 2024
Job Description
The main tasks consist of externally funded research in the field of Indigenous history, with particular focus on how Indigenous peoples in North America and the Nordic countries have managed climate change and the loss of biodiversity. The postdoctoral fellow will join the research programme “Surviving the Unthinkable: Ecological Destruction and Indigenous Survivance in North America and the Nordic Countries, 1600–2022” (Funded by Formas 2023–2027). The programme aims to understand how Sami and North American Indigenous communities have survived when faced with the impact of colonial expansion on the environment, nature, and biodiversity. There is reason to emphasise both oppression and vulnerability in Indigenous experiences, but this programme seeks to focus on survival and, in many respects, remarkable recovery, suggesting active and creative actions for survivance. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to carry out a research project within one of the programme’s three main areas: border demarcations and migration, colonial education and traditional ecological knowledge, as well as art and culture in the narratives and visualisation of the relationship to the lands.
In the research programme SUN (Surviving the Unthinkable), the postdoctoral fellow will be part of an international and interdisciplinary group of researchers and artists from Finland, Norway, Sweden, and different parts of North America. The team collaborates on research as well as conference participation and holds regular project meetings, both physically and online.
The postdoctoral fellow will also be part of the research centre Concurrences: Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.
Teaching and supervision up to an extent of 20% of full-time may be part of the expected workload.
We welcome your application according to instructions no later than 13 March 2024!
