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Junior Research Fellowship in the History

and Culture of the Countries of the Silk
Roads, 2020-2024
King's College, Cambridge

Location: Cambridge Placed On: 10th December 2019

Salary: Not Specified Closes: 14th January 2020
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

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Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship

Through a generous donation, King’s College Cambridge is able to invite applications for a four-year Junior
Research Fellowship from those who are completing or have recently completed a doctorate and who intend
to pursue a research project on some aspect of the history and culture of the Silk Road countries, societies,
and cultures of Asia from the Western borders of China to the Mediterranean Sea, past and present, as well as
their relationships with China in the East and Europe in the West.

This Research Fellowship inaugurates a broader programme of studies of the countries of the Silk Roads,
which will include lectures, seminars and conferences, as well as graduate scholarships and further Research
Fellowships. As well as pursuing their own research project, the successful candidate will be expected to play
an active role in developing the programme and in organizing academic activity concerned with the countries
of the Silk Road.

This post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to encourage research into the history and culture of the countries
Silk Roads by enabling the successful candidate to complete a substantial research project on their own
choosing. Projects may concern any aspect of the history or cultures of any of the peoples of the Silk Roads,
from the Western borders of China to the Mediterranean Sea, but for this inaugural Research Fellowship,
preference may be given to those studying the Silk Roads themselves, that is to studies of relationships and
the movement of materials, knowledge, and technologies between China and the Mediterranean at any period
in history up to the present day.

The ideal candidate for this Junior Research Fellowship will have a strong background in a relevant discipline
and be completing or have completed an outstanding doctoral thesis. It is not a requirement that the
candidate’s doctoral studies or the work that they submit in support of their application should have concerned
questions of the Silk Roads specifically, but candidates will be expected to show in their applications both how
their future work relates to the work that they have already done. The successful candidate will be expected to
engage broadly with the whole college community.

A Junior Research Fellowship is a postdoctoral position tenable for up to 4 years. Applications are welcome
from graduates of any university. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD, but must not have
undertaken more than 3 years of postdoctoral work by 1st October 2020 (i.e. your PhD cannot have been
granted before 30th September 2017).

The closing date for applications, including references, is 9 a.m. on Tuesday, 14th January 2020. Full details,
including the method of application, are given on the King's College website: https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk
/research/junior-research-fellowships

King’s College follows an equal opportunities policy.

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