Competition for the adjunct – postdoctoral trainee position (post-doc) – the contractor of a research project
CITY: Warsaw
POSITION: adjunct – postdoctoral trainee position (post-doc) – the contractor within the research project
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE: history, history of science
ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 23 October 2024
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS: 30 November 2024
DATE OF THE COMPETITION: until 31 December 2024
LINK TO THE WEBSITE: http://www.ihpan.edu.pl
KEYWORDS: Ukraine, revolution, autonomy, national minority, violence.
Institute of History Tadeusz Manteuffel of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announces a competition[1] for the position of adjunct – postdoctoral trainee (post-doc) – contractor of the research project entitled “Non-Ukrainians in Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–1921: (Trans-)National Agency in the Struggle for Emancipation and Survival”, commissioned by the National Science Center under the OPUS LAP scheme (project no. 2023/51/I/HS3/01272) under the supervision of doc. dr hab. Gennadii Korolov, in collaboration with prof. dr Börries Kuzmany (University of Vienna, Department of East European History) under the WEAVE initiative.
Abstract of the research project: The project aims to re-examine one of the most crucial periods of modern Ukrainian history – the revolutionary transformation of 1917–1921 – by synthesizing the diverse experiences of the non-Ukrainian population living in Ukraine. While the existing historiography of the revolution in Ukraine has focused primarily on the state-building efforts of Ukrainian national elites, the lives and activities of non-Ukrainians have been largely overlooked. Yet, Ukraine was a multicultural space in which linguistically and confessionally heterogeneous people lived side by side. We argue that no sincere history of revolutionary Ukraine can be written without incorporating the non-Ukrainians into the narrative.
Analyzing the political, cultural, and socio-economic agency of non-Ukrainians in Ukraine from a transnational perspective is at the core of this project. The study will focus primarily on Poles, Jews, and Russians, the most numerically and historically relevant nationalities, but will also examine Germans, Greeks, Belarussians, Czechs, and Moldovans. The project’s research questions are structured in five larger thematic clusters: the analysis of in-group transformations among non-Ukrainians, non-Ukrainians’ interactions with state authorities, non-Ukrainians’ external relations with co-nationals outside Ukraine, the interactions among non-Ukrainian groupings themselves, and the ways in which non-Ukrainians have experienced violence.
The methodological approach has been conceptualized in studies of transnational and entangled history slants, which allows us to explore intergroup and transnational interactions between Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians. We reject essentialist approaches to nationalism and instead explicitly examine the complex interplay between the state’s varying national categorizations, nationalists’ mobilization efforts, the population’s ambivalent national sentiments, and people’s situative and flexible identifications. In analyzing the activities of non-Ukrainians, we use a mixed institutional and biographical approach, looking at both non-Ukrainian organizations/institutions and individual trajectories. This mixed-methodology approach includes extensive use of primary sources from archives and libraries in Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States.
The originality of our project lies in our aim to involve non-Ukrainians in the study of the post-imperial transformation processes in revolutionary Ukraine. We introduce innovative approaches, such as a transnational and entangled perspective, and a bottom-up approach to exploring the actions of non-Ukrainians. In addition, our attention to the gendered phenomenon of political emancipation and violence will provide insights into the intersectionality of nationalism and gender/sex. The results of the study will have a significant impact on the broader fields of history of revolutions and nationalism studies.
The tasks of the trainee will include:
- search, collection, and analysis of the source material for the Polish, international, and transnational part of the project
- writing and publishing articles in peer-review journals
- presenting papers at international conferences
- participation in team meetings with the Polish and Austrian teams (online and in person)
- participation in public engagement activities
- supporting the PI in project management tasks
Eligibility requirements. The candidate should:
- hold a doctoral degree in humanities or social sciences,
- have a scholarly background in Ukrainian or Russian history and/or nationalism studies,
- demonstrate an interest in minority issues, social history, political history, history of transformation, and comparative research questions,
- a very good knowledge of English and good knowledge of Polish, Russian or some Ukrainian, and, ideally, additional language of one of the nationalities in revolutionary Ukraine in the years 1917–1921,
- be familiar with reference management software like e.g. Zotero or EndNote,
- have a track record of relevant publications and conference presentations in the areas mentioned above,
- declare consent to be included in the number of employees conducting research during the employment period, i.e. in the number N for the algorithm for allocating the base subsidy to statutory activity.
Employment: from 03/02/2025 for 4 years, full-time. Yearly gross salary 140.000 PLN.
Detailed terms of employment (in line with the recommendations of the National Science Center) will be specified in the employment contract for a closed period, concluded between the adjunct-trainee and the Director of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Candidates are requested to submit the following documents:
- Application for employment addressed to the director of the Institute[2]
- Curriculum Vitae with a list of publications
- A letter of motivation
- A copy of the doctoral diploma
- Sample of one English language publication
- Candidate’s declaration that in the event of winning the competition, IH PAN will be the primary place of work.
- Consent to be included in the number of employees conducting research activity during the employment period, i.e. the number N for the purposes of the algorithm for allocating the base subsidy for statutory activity (link to the form https://ihpan.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Oswiadczenie_wskazanie_do_wniosku_od-2018.pdf).
Scans of the documents should be sent to ihpan@ihpan.edu.pl and gkorolov@ihpan.edu.pl; the successful candidate will be required to provide original documents.
Selected candidates will be invited for an interview (in English).
Director Institute of History PAS
Professor Maciej Janowski
Warsaw, 23 October 2024
[1] Competition will be held according to: REGULATIONS ON AWARDING FUNDING FOR RESEARCH TASKS FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE AS REGARDS RESEARCH PROJECTS, Annex to NCN Council Resolution No 23/2023 of 16 February 2023. Regulaminu przyznawania środków na realizację zadań finansowanych przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki w zakresie projektów badawczych wprowadzonego uchwałą Rady NCN nr 23/2023 z dnia 16 lutego 2023 r.
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