The Leiden University Institute for History has two positions on offer for postdoctoral researchers. These positions are meant to improve the prospects of junior as well as more advanced researchers who wish to pursue a scholarly career.

The Institute for History is the home of a vibrant community of researchers and lecturers with outstanding track records and successful in attracting national and international research grants. Under the label ‘Global Questions, Local Sources’ scholars affiliated to the Institute combine a deep knowledge of global interactions and of specific localities, regions and states in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. They use comparative, connective and entangled approaches and resort to qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

All researchers of the Institute for History are connected to one of the five research specializations: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC - 400 AD), Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1000-1800, Political Culture and National Identities, Colonial and Global History, and Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence.

The following categories of researchers can apply for one of the postdoctoral positions:

• Scholars who obtained their PhD in the Humanities in 2009 or in a more recent year;
• Scholars who have not graduated in the Humanities yet, but whose PhD manuscript has been officially approved by the dissertation committee or external examiner on 1 November 2015.