Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History and Critical Heritage Studies

The University of Agder has more than 1400 employees and 13 000 students. This makes us one of the largest workplaces in Southern Norway. Our staff research, teach and disseminate knowledge from a variety of academic fields. Co-creation of knowledge is our common vision. We offer a broad range of study programmes in many fields. We are situated at two modern campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad respectively.
We are an open and inclusive university marked by a culture of cooperation. The aim of the university is to further develop education and research at a high international level.

A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History and Critical Heritage Studies: (Post)colonial Norway (Denmark-Norway and/or Sweden-Norway and/or the independent nation-state Norway) affiliated to the Department of Religion, Philosophy and History for a period of two years. The position is located at Campus Kristiansand. The preferred starting date is March 1, 2022.

The position is linked to the Claimed Pasts: Critical Knowledge and Heritage Production research group, an interdisciplinary group comprised of scholars from the history of science, archaeology, critical heritage studies, religious studies, and the natural sciences.

https://www.uia.no/en/research/humaniora-og-pedagogikk/claimed-pasts-critical-knowledge-and-heritage-production

Our research revolves around the wider societal and historical backdrops against which texts, artefacts and archives are used for making claims about the past. Claimed Pasts thus contributes to the growing research in the field of history of knowledge.

Applicants are invited to suggest an empirically and theoretically sound case study on (post)colonial Norway. We are looking for histories of institutions (archives, private and public collections, museums, among others), epistemologies (texts, images, taxonomies, etc.), and relevant actors. The successful candidate will explore Norway's historical entanglements with imperial and colonial projects. The successful applicant can choose a longer or shorter time period from ca. 1700 to the present.
This successful postdoc project will form part of the Claimed Pasts ongoing research.

Required qualifications
PhD in history, anthropology, critical heritage studies or related disciplines. Potential applicants must have had their PhD theses approved by the time of the application deadline
Experience with archival research
The working language at the University of Agder is Norwegian. The working language in Claimed Pasts is English. The successful candidate must have excellent reading skills in a Scandinavian language. The candidate must also document experience in working with Scandinavian primary sources and/or documentation of own dissemination or publication in Scandinavian
Fluency in written and spoken English
The applicants must have excellent international publications or concrete plans for such publications based on their PhD. Furthermore, the applicants must demonstrate strong potential for excellent international publications based on the project proposal they submit.
Willingness to work as part of a team
Further provisions relating to the positions as Post-doctoral Research Fellows can be found in the? Regulations Concerning Terms and Conditions of Employment for the post of Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Research Assistant and Resident.

The position is remunerated according to the State Salary Scale, salary plan 17.510, code 1352, NOK 553 500 - 574 700 gross salary per year. Higher salary grades may be considered for particularly well-qualified applicants. A compulsory pension contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund is deducted from the pay according to current statutory provisions.

Arbeidssted/Arbetsort: Kristiansand