Call for Applications: Three Full-Time Postdoctoral Positions
The Research Centre Ukraine (RCU) / Max Weber Foundation invites applications for three full-time postdoctoral research positions, offered on fixed-term contracts until April 2030. The positions are based in Lviv, Ukraine, and are expected to commence as soon as possible.
The appointments form part of the four-year research project ‘Rethinking Europe: Ukrainian History as Entangled History’, based at the RCU and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). The research group explores Ukrainian history through its wider European and global polycentric entanglements. At the same time, the project serves as a forum for methodological and epistemological reflection on how the region might be conceptualised and studied beyond inherited imperial frameworks, categories, and scholarly practices.
The postdoctoral appointments will be affiliated with one of the three research fields:
RF 1: Rethinking Areas: Mobilities and Archives of the Black Sea Region
RF 2: Rethinking Centres & Peripheries: Kyiv – Rome – Istanbul
RF 3: Beyond Minorities: Overlooked Ghettos & Practices of Exclusion
Your responsibilities
- Develop and conduct an independent research project within one of the three research fields of the project
- Disseminate and publish your research findings
- Conceptualise and organise academic events related to your research
- Participate in and help expand international collaborations related to your research
Your qualifications
- A completed PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in a field relevant to one of the project’s three research fields
- Proficiency in languages relevant to your proposed research project
- A strong publication record in the relevant areas
We offer
- A salary in accordance with the German TVÖD Bund 13 scale (research field 1) and the salary scale of the German Embassy in Ukraine (research fields 2 and 3)
- Additional funding for archival research trips, conference participation and organisation, and publication costs
- A highly committed and motivated team and a collegial working environment
- Well-equipped office space in the centre of Lviv, with access to the RCU’s digital library resources
- An international working environment and access to the network of the Max Weber Institutes
The MWF is a family-friendly employer that is particularly keen to reconcile work and family life. Professional equality between women and men and equal opportunities for people with severe disabilities are important to us. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications regardless of nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion and belief, age, sexual orientation and identity.