At the DFG Research Training Group 1878 of the Universities of Bonn and Cologne on the topic of ‘Archaeology of Pre-Modern Economies’, eleven doctoral posts are to be filled with effect from October 1st, 2016. The posts are limited to a 2-year period, with the option to continue for max. one year following a positive interim evaluation.
The aim of the RTG is to record economic systems and economic areas of premodern societies in terms of their structure, efficiency and dynamics (genesis, transformation processes through to a potential dissolution) as well as to analyse them in interaction with their respective physical geographical, political, societal, religious and cultural conditions. The investigations will be focussed along three lines of research, ‘Economic Networks’, ‘Settlement Centres and Their Environs’ and ‘Religious Institutions as Economic Units’.
The subjects involved in the RTG are
- Ancient American Studies
- Ancient History
- Archaeology of the Roman Provinces
- Byzantine Studies
- Christian Archaeology
- Classical Archaeology
- Egyptology
- Ethnology
- Historic Geography
- Islamic Archaeology
- Pre- and Early History
Successful applicants may development their own dissertation topics within the framework of the outlined research programme. The RTG language is German, but dissertation may also be written in another language.
The doctoral candidate (m/f) will be employed at either of the two universities and registered as a doctoral student. The doctoral programme will be conducted within a structured study programme comprising weekly seminars, workshops or international meetings; participation is mandatory.