Postdoctoral Scholar Cultural Studies / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Job

In collaboration with the Digital Humanities team of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the department is developing a suite of tools to facilitate the use of oral history in the history of science, technology, medicine, and environment. These tools include CORAL: Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge, which enables researchers to search and analyze the full text of oral history interviews across institutions and collections. For this position, we are seeking a postdoctoral scholar who can assist in the development of CORAL and other in-house digital humanities projects while pursuing their own independent research project. We are particularly interested in scholars who have experience with both oral history and the digital humanities, and who have a proposed research project that deploys oral history as a method for studying a topic related to the department’s core research themes. Your profile: • PhD in the history of science, technology, medicine, and environment or a neighboring field in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, history, sociology, and STS (PhD must be in hand by the starting date of the contract) • Experience with oral history and with the application of digital humanities methods in your own research • A proposed research project that deploys oral history as a method for studying a topic related to the department’s research themes. • Interest in developing innovative, cross-cultural, critically reflective methods as part of an interdisciplinary research group

Initiator(s):
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Deadline: 30.04.2025
Start date: 01.09.2025
Location: Berlin, Germany

https://www.mpg.de/24291899/postdoctoral-scholar-m-f-d2

Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein