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Marieke van Erp

Amsterdam
Apply by Sep 26, 2025

Application deadline

Sep 26, 2025

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Marieke van Erp

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Amsterdam

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Application Deadline

Sep 26, 2025

Start Date

Flexible

Education Required

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Experience Level

Not specified

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Job location

Marieke van Erp

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Amsterdam

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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.