Job description

The position is part of the Research Group (Focus Project) “All Aboard! Uneven Mobilities, Being on the Move as a Practice and Social Sites in Motion During the Early Modern Period” of Dr. Sarah Lentz and attached to the division of Early Modern History (Prof. Dr. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt). The doctoral project focuses on the previously underresearched mobility experiences of German-speaking female migrants en route to North America during the long eighteenth century. It examines how their gender-specific experiences, scopes of action, restrictions, practices (e.g., walking), and the appropriation of (mobile) spaces (such as inns, riverboats, stagecoaches, and ocean-going ships) evolved across the different phases of their land- and sea-based transit processes.

Responsibilities:

• Design and preparation of a PhD thesis within the field of „Early Modern Mobilities History“,
• Independent teaching of courses in the BA-History Program (1,5 semester hours), including the supervision and examination of students,
• Conducting historical research autonomously,
• Participation in the activities of the research group, contribution to academic and public outreach.
• The successful candidate will have the opportunity for further qualification with the objective of completing a doctorate in Early Modern History within the framework of the employment.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in history or in another Master’s program with a significant share of history with excellent academic credentials,
• Very good knowledge of English,
• German language skills (at least level B1 - CEF),
• Good communication skills,
• High level of commitment and initiative, ability to work in a team, careful and reliable working style.

General Information

We offer:

• Annual special payment ("Christmas bonus"), regular automatic salary increases in line with collective agreements and additional public service pension scheme (VBL)
• A crisis-proof, interesting and varied job in a cosmopolitan university
• 30 days holiday per calendar year
• A diverse, future-orientated and open corporate culture
• Support from a collegial, motivated team with a positive working atmosphere
• Personalised induction training
• The opportunity for further education and training
• Compatibility of family and career through flexible working hours (flexitime) and the option of mobile working (subject to the general conditions)
• Free social and family counselling services
• Active company health management, including the option of discounts at local sports clubs, gyms and swimming pools (EGYM WELLPASS)
• The option of using a job ticket (Bremen Tramway)
• Numerous sports and cultural programmes
• Varied catering options in the student union canteens

Open to unconventional approaches in research and teaching, the University of Bremen has retained its character as a place of short distances for people and ideas since its founding in 1971. With a broad range of subjects, we combine exceptional performance and innovative potential. As an ambitious research university, we stand for research-based learning approaches and a pronounced interdisciplinary orientation. We actively pursue international scientific cooperation in a spirit of global partnership.
Today, around 23,000 people learn, teach, research and work on our international campus. In research and teaching, administration and operations, we are firmly committed to the goals of sustainability, climate justice and climate neutrality. Our Bremen spirit is expressed in the courage to dare new things, in supportive cooperation, in respect and appreciation for each other. With our study and research profile and as part of the European YUFE network, we assume social responsibility in the region, in Europe and in the world.

The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply.

Disabled applicants will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.

For more details regarding the position, please contact Dr. Sarah Lentz (sarahlentzprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de).

Applications including a cover letter, CV, copies of degree certificates, including high school and preferably contact details of two references should be submitted with the reference number A136-25 until April 1st, 2025 to as a single unencrypted PDF file to fb08.bewerbungprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de or by postal mail to:

Universität Bremen
Fachbereich 8 – Sozialwissenschaften
Reference number A136-25
Postfach 33 04 40
28334 Bremen

We kindly ask you to send us only copies (no portfolios) of your application documents, as we cannot return them. They will be destroyed after the selection process has been completed.

Any application costs cannot be reimbursed.