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Marieke van Erp
Amsterdam
Apply by Sep 26, 2025
Application deadline
Sep 26, 2025
Job
Job location
Marieke van Erp
Amsterdam
Geocoding in progress.
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Quick Information
Application Deadline
Sep 26, 2025
Start Date
Flexible
Education Required
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Experience Level
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Job
Job location
Marieke van Erp
Job Description
The Ph.D. candidate and postdoctoral researcher will work on Tracing Contentious Entities and Concepts in Food History, which involves developing technology to identify ingredients and food-related concepts from historical resources, and analysing how food habits and discourse around food have changed over time. The project also includes studying the impact of digital processing tools on the hermeneutical practice of historical research, with an intersection with the maritime history use case on shared concepts and entities.
Requirements
- Ph.D. candidates must have finished their master’s degree
- postdoctoral researcher candidates must have finished their Ph.D. degree in history
- digital humanities
- language technology
- semantic web or a related field by the starting date of the project. Candidates should have an open-minded and collaborative attitude
- a firm grasp on computational methods
- proficiency or willingness to achieve proficiency in historical research methods (for Ph.D. candidates) or computational methods (for postdoctoral researchers)
- excellent English skills
- and have or be willing to obtain working proficiency in Dutch.
Job
Job location
Marieke van Erp
Coordinates pending.