The European project CATCH –The Catholic Church and the Environment– has opened a call for expressions of interest aimed at researchers willing to join its team at CISPAC, which will host the new Radical Environmental Humanities Hub. The project is led by CISPAC researcher Marco Armiero and funded by the European Research Council.
The call includes the recruitment of 5 PhD candidates, 2 postdoctoral researchers and 1 research assistant, targeting international and interdisciplinary profiles. The project aims to provide a historical analysis of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the environment from the 1960s to the present, addressing both its role in international governance arenas and a range of case studies across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.
The call is open to candidates with backgrounds in fields such as modern and contemporary history, environmental history, sociology, anthropology, political science or digital humanities. For the research assistant position, skills in web management, digital communication and the organisation of research materials and archives will be particularly valued.
Selected candidates will be required to relocate to Santiago de Compostela and will be based at CISPAC. They will actively contribute to the development of the Radical Environmental Humanities Hub, an initiative that seeks to bridge Environmental Humanities and Political Ecology and to build an international research community addressing major contemporary ecological challenges.
The selection process consists of two stages. In the first phase, candidates must submit an expression of interest including a motivation letter, CV and additional documentation depending on the position. Shortlisted candidates will then proceed to the formal call of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
The deadline for submitting applications in this first stage is April 25. Applications must be sent as a single PDF file to the address indicated in the call, including the relevant position code in the subject line.
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