Friday 13 February 2009

Job Posting: Post-Doc Research Associate - Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging (Royal Holloway)

JOB POSTING: POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
INDIGENEITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: PERFORMANCE, POLITICS, BELONGING
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UK

A unique opportunity exists for an outstanding Post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to a new interdisciplinary research project that will examine how Indigeneity is expressed and understood in our complex, globalising world. With funding of €2.36M over five years from the European Research Council, this frontier research, led by Professor Helen Gilbert at Royal Holloway (University of London), will develop along four broad conceptual themes: ‘Commodity and Spectacle’, ‘Heritage and Material Culture’, ‘Reconciliation and Social Cohesion’ and ‘Mobility and Belonging’. Applicants will be considered from across a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, the following: theatre/performance studies, film, cultural geography, anthropology, history, indigenous studies, sociology, politics, dance, ethnomusicology, international relations.

Full details are available at http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/Ads/Y0209-5242.html

Salary: £31,838 per year plus relocation allowance and yearly travel fund

Starting date: As soon as possible after 1 May 2009 (post funded until 2014)

Applications close: Friday 13 March (expected interview date 3 April)

Contact: helen.gilbert at rhul.ac.uk

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