Chair in Modern Asian History (second call) University of Amsterdam (UvA) - Amsterdam — AcademicTransfer

Chair in Modern Asian History (second call) University of Amsterdam (UvA) - Amsterdam — AcademicTransfer

Job description

The Department of Anthropology is hiring a Chair in Modern Asian History.

The
new chair is currently expected to spend 60 percent of the time on
teaching and 40 percent on research. Both activities include
administrative tasks and services to the community.

The chair
combines social anthropology with history.  The chair’s expertise must
fit the profile of Research and Teaching Mission of the Moving Matters
group (see description). S/he has expertise in mobility and/or border
studies, labour relations, transnational flows of people, goods and
ideas.

Tasks: 

• Contributing to the broad and diverse
  research and teaching profile of the anthropology in Amsterdam, notably
  the anthropology of development;
• developing, carrying out and
  supervising empirical historical anthropological research at a high
  academic level, further developing international leadership in this
  field, developing a research line in collaboration with junior staff
  members and other researchers working at the Amsterdam Institute for
  Social Science Research (AISSR) and the social anthropology Program
  Group ‘Moving Matters’;
• teaching general, specialist and
  methodological courses in the Bachelor's-, Master's-, Research Master's-
  and PhD programs in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and
  supervising graduate students;
• acquiring and helping to acquire external funding for research (also on behalf of junior researchers);
• actively
  contributing to the development of anthropology in the national and
  international context by publishing and participating in national and
  international research networks and educational initiatives;
• carrying
  out administrative tasks on behalf of the Department of Sociology and
  Anthropology, the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
  (AISSR) and their interdisciplinary centres, the teaching programs, and
  so forth.

Requirements

• Strong
  general knowledge in the fields of the anthropology of development and
  history as well as knowledge and experience in combining these and other
  disciplines;
• commitment to the research agenda of the AISSR in
  general and the Program Group ‘Moving Matters’ in particular, and
  commitment to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations in this specific
  field;
• outstanding track record in empirical research on themes
  that fit the research and teaching profile of the Moving Matters group,
  more in particular in the field of mobility and/or border studies,
  transnational flows of people, goods and ideas, and/or labour – as
  exemplified in a strong publication record in internationally peer
  reviewed journals and/or books published by internationally recognized
  press;
• research experience in Asia and also proficiency in an Asian language;
• demonstrated
  ability to acquire research funding from external sources (e.g. the
  Netherlands’ Organization for Scientific Research, the European Research
  Council, or other research councils, the European Union, or other
  national and international funding agencies);
• thorough mastery of historical and anthropological research methods, including research using databases;
• a
  proven record of high-quality teaching, preferably at Bachelor's-,
  Master's- and PhD level. Also a commitment to teaching general courses
  as well as specialist courses in the Bachelor's and Master's programs in
  Sociology and in the interdisciplinary Research Master Social Sciences;
• track record in administration and commitment to carry out administrative tasks;
• adequate knowledge of Dutch, or the willingness to learn the Dutch language within two years;
• in
  possession of the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification (or foreign
  equivalent), or willingness to acquire such a qualification on a fairly
  short term.

Conditions of employment

Depending
on qualifications and experience, the salary will range from €5,003 to
€8,795 gross per month, in conformity with the Collective Labour
Agreement of Dutch Universities. Secondary benefits at Dutch
universities are attractive and include 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end
of year bonus.

Department

The Department of Anthropology is one of the departments in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG).
Research and education are carried out by special institutes. The
College of Social Sciences (CSS) and the Graduate School for the Social
Sciences (GSSS) are responsible for the undergraduate and graduate
teaching programmes in the social sciences.

Research takes place
under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
(AISSR). The AISSR is a multidisciplinary research institute, the
biggest one of its kind in the Netherlands. The broad scope and
pluralism of our education and research programmes are inspired by and
reflect a strong degree of internationalization. The AISSR Programme Group ‘Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas’ consists
of researchers involved in social anthropology and the sociology of
development. These scholars, alongside colleagues from other groups and
disciplines, collaborate in various interdisciplinary centres, as well
as the International Institute for Social Science History (IISG).

Additional information

For more information about this position, please contact:

• Prof. Mario Rutten, Chair of the Department of Anthropology
  T: +31 (0)20 525 2504