Dear colleagues,
Radboud University Nijmegen is advertising a four-year postdoctoral position in the NWO VICI-project 'Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East (7th-15th century)’. This project studies the interrelationship between water installations, governance, and legal and cultural frameworks in five Middle Eastern cities (Basra, Baghdad, Mosul, Damascus and Cairo) from the first Arab conquests to Ottoman rule (7th-15th C). It seeks to:
1) map the institutional fabric of premodern Middle Eastern cities by taking water as a key service 2) identify incentives for institutional innovation in premodern urban water governance.
Postdoctoral project - Water installations and waterways: An archaeological approach
Your postdoctoral research approaches the two main objectives of the project from an archaeological perspective. You will have three main responsibilities within the project:
1) to analyse geospatial data and remaining visual features in the landscape of Iraq around Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, through the outcomes of the aerial survey based on photography and satellite imagery; 2) to examine archaeological publications and reports and contact archaeological teams for all five cities to gather data relevant to Source of Life and interpret these findings for the rest of the team; and 3) to supervise the GIS environment in close cooperation with the GIS specialists from the Radboud Humanities Lab.
Full details of the job offer: https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1062388&do... https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1062388&doel=embed&taal=nl Closing date: 28 October 2019 More information: Prof. Maaike van Berkel, PI (m.vanberkel@let.ru.nl)
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