3 Regional Research Jobs in Wien
Your workplace:
- You independently teach courses in the Bachelor's programs of the Department of Geography and Regional Research (Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung / IfGR) and Master's courses in the field of Geomorphology in German and English
- Depending on your teaching assignment, you also supervise students' work in bachelor's thesis courses and master's theses (in accordance with the regulations in the statutes of the University of Vienna)
- You actively contribute to the (further) development of course and examination formats (incorporating digital teaching and learning opportunities)
- The ongoing reception of the current state of science as well as didactic further training and taking over research tasks are expected
- In addition, taking over administrative activities, especially in the administration of teaching, is part of the task profile
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Your Tasks
- Hold a PhD in Social Anthropology or a closely related field, awarded by 1 January 2026; no earlier than 10 years prior (plus parental leave).
- Previous research experience in the field of digital and/or environmental anthropology.
- Experience in and willingness to conduct long-term ethnographic fieldwork and have relevant language skills.
- Ability to work independently, including conducting fieldwork, data analysis and writing, plus develop original lines of inquiry.
- Familiarity with the anthropological literature on energy and artificial intelligence.
- Be prepared to join an existing research project and actively contribute to its central aims and collaborative inquiries.
- Be prepared to reside in Austria for the duration of the position (excluding fieldwork) and actively participate in project and institute events.
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Your personal sphere of interest:
- Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century), coordinated by Grigor Boykov and Jens Oliver Schmitt
- Resource Accumulation and Labour Coercion in Premodern Household Economies in a Long-Term Perspective, coordinated by Juliane Schiel and Michael Jursa
- Nature, Environments and Societies in Ottoman and Turkish Sources, coordinated by Yavuz Köse
- Mobility and Migration in Byzantium, coordinated by Claudia Rapp
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