A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in Archaeology is available at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo.
The Doctoral Fellowship is affiliated with the research project “ARCREATE. An Archaeology of Creative Knowledge in Turbulent Times”, funded by the Research Council of Norway (project no. 334377) and led by Professor Per Ditlef Fredriksen.
The ARCREATE project offers a novel approach to understanding technological and social change during turbulent times in central and southern Africa. Archaeology’s grand narratives about Bantu migrations, largely derived from studies of ceramics, ignore the creative knowledges of the artisans who made ceramic objects that the archaeologists studied. ARCREATE works closely with local stakeholders to excavate these technological and sensorial knowledges and the networks that transmitted them across space and time. Cognisant of recent-re-thinking about key concepts like mobility, creativity, learning and households, ARCREATE highlights local agency in its investigation of technological knowledge, seeking to understand the social, conceptual, ecological and mineralogical factors that guided craftspeople’s choices of specific materials and techniques.
The doctoral candidate will be part of the project’s core team and will contribute to its main objectives together with the team. The candidate will be included in the project’s Work Package “WP3 The Millennum Case”, devoted to develop a regional synthesis of changes to learning networks and local engagement with the mineral world in central and southern Africa in the period 500–1500 CE.
The candidate should apply with their own project proposal and, while open for the successful candidate to define, the proposed research project must correspond with the overall framework of ARCREATE.
The person appointed will be affiliated with the Faculty’s organized research training. The academic work is to result in a doctoral thesis that will be defended at the Faculty with a view to obtaining the degree of PhD. The successful candidate is expected to join the existing research milieu or network and contribute to its development. Read more about the doctoral degree.
The appointment is for a duration of 3 years. All PhD Candidates who submit their doctoral dissertation for assessment with a written recommendation from their supervisor within 3 years or 3 ½ years after the start of their PhD position, will be offered, respectively, a 12 or 6 month Completion Grant.
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