The University of Konstanz is one of the nine universities in Germany whose “future concepts for top-level university research” receive support within the framework of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments.
The “Cultural Foundations of Integration” Center of Excellence was established in 2006 at the University of Konstanz with funding from the German Federal and State Excellence Initiative. The Center views itself as an interdisciplinary, globally integrated network supporting original research projects centered on questions of integration and disintegration in a framework of cultural studies and method.
At the Center of Excellence, research is brought together from the fields of history, literary and media studies, political science, administration, and law, and from philosophy, sociology, ethnology/cultural anthropology, and cultural theory.
The Center of Excellence invites applications for the following positions, to be filled as soon as possible:
3 positions in the doctoral program on “Europe in the Globalized World”
Research focus: Migration and Borders in an Age of Intensified Mobility
The positions are limited to a 3 year period.
The full call in English.
Deadline: 26 May 2014
Interviews are: 21/22 July 2014
Start on 1 October 2014