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3 PhD positions "Environmental and Agricultural History"
The University of Basel, Switzerland, and the University of Birmingham, UK, invite applications for 3 fully funded, four-year PhD positions in the Swiss National Research Foundation project “Feeding the Earth: Synthetic Fertilizers and the Remaking of Agriculture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”.
The positions are to be filled as of June 1st, 2026.
The project “Feeding the Earth” is a collaboration between the University of Basel, the University of Birmingham, and Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg. It enquires into the spread of synthetic fertilizers and the ways in which it transformed agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
PhD position (100%, 4 yrs.) in Environmental History and Agricultural History (South Africa)
The South Africa case study will be based at the Department of History of the University of Basel, Switzerland (https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/).
PhD position (100%, 4 yrs.) in Environmental/Agricultural History (Turkey)
The Turkey case study will be based at the Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland (https://europa.unibas.ch/en/).
Spreading Fertilizer Around the Phosphatvilles: Chemical Fertilizer and Moroccan Agriculture, 1920s-1970s
The Morocco case study will be based at the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham.
Job posting on HSozKult: https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158717?title=3-phd-positions-environmental-and-agricultural-history-univ-of-basel-univ-of-birmingham&recno=13&q=&sort=&fq=&total=76