We are pleased to share this Call for Applications from Staffordshire University’s Centre of Archaeology, which seeks to recruit two fixed term Researchers for three months specialising in Holocaust studies.
Deadline for applications is November 28, 2023
Reporting to Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls, the postholders will join an international team of experts working on the project “Trawniki: Nexus of the Final Solution”, funded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference).
The project seeks to provide the first historic, spatial and archaeological analysis of Trawniki training and labour camp, located near Lublin/Majdanek, thus highlighting and better defining its function in the persecution and mass murder of the European Jewry during the Holocaust.
As well as assisting with cataloguing, identifying and analysing English source material, one postholder will assist with Polish, Ukrainian and/or Russian collections, whilst the other will conduct parallel research on sources in German. The postholder(s) may be asked to travel to conduct research in Poland/Germany.
Main Responsibilities
The main responsibilities for the Researchers will be to:
- Work as part of an international research team to deliver the project’s aims and outputs.
- Undertake archival research, drawing upon documentary, cartographic, photographic and other source types, using both online repositories and on-site collections. The latter may require the postholder to undertake one visit to an archive(s) in Europe as instructed by the Project Lead.
- Undertake translations / providing summaries of documents where the originals are in languages other than English.
- Thoroughly document and catalogue identified archival holdings and research findings via the mediums outlined by the Project Lead, including writing summary reports.
- Contribute to the subject’s activities and reputation both internally and externally
- Exercise a high standard of advanced scholarship activity both personally and as a member of a team, working with colleagues to develop an inclusive, team-orientated approach to such activities.
- Undertake other such responsibilities as may reasonably be required by the Project Lead, Head of Department and/or Dean of School.
Contact For Informal Discussion
Kevin Colls, Associate Professor of Archaeology, [email protected]
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