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Graduate Teaching Assistantships in History (University of Liverpool)
December 14, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Liverpool has been a world leader in historical research and teaching for over 100 years. The world-renowned expertise of our historians and their innovative, international and interdisciplinary approaches to the discipline have established us as a leading centre for medieval, early modern and modern British, European, American and World History. The department hosts a number of highly active research seminar series and we also contribute to the following inter-disciplinary research centres:
· Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
· Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre
· Centre for the Study of International Slavery
· Centre for Port and Maritime History
We invite applications for two Graduate Teaching Fellowships (starting September 2016) in:
· Medieval and Renaissance studies
· History of crime and criminality
· Post-war British culture and society
· US and European political history
· Economic history and the history of economic thought
· Imperial and colonial history
· Military history
· Medical history
· Slavery and the slave trade
· Intellectual history
· Specific area studies, including Latin America, China, and Africa
The fellowships last four years and successful candidates will have their fees (at Home/EU rate) waived throughout the 4 years of their PhD. In addition, they will be paid a maintenance stipend:
Stipend/£ p.a. (Years 1-4): ~£14057*
Teaching hours in years 1 and 2: 90 contact hours
(*adjusted annually in line with AHRC maintenance grants)
Candidates should have a good first degree and hold (or be about to complete) a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
Deadline for applications:
Stage 1 deadline: Monday 14 December 2015, by 4pm UK time
Stage 2 deadline: Friday 15 January 2016, by 4pm UK time
Further details and how to apply
Enquiries may be sent to the Head of Department: Professor Andrew Popp, andrew.popp@liverpool.ac.uk