Vacancy: Professorship Theory of History

Due to success within the tenure track programme of the Federal Government and the Länder, the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University is seeking to appoint as soon as possible:

either a W1 professor with tenure track to W2
or a W2 professor with a limited contract plus tenure track specializing in the theory of history

The candidate should be an academic with a national and international reputation specializing in the theory of history. The Department of History at Bielefeld University views itself as a centre of theoretically guided historical research that should be further strengthened through the establishment of the new ‘Center for Theory in Historical Research’. The post holder should engage in the further development of reflection on basic issues in the theory of history in close dialogue with other areas of research at Bielefeld, and her or his research should include work on the preconditions and basic principles of historical thought.

Please find the details of this vacancy in the PDF file below.

Posted: 26-06-2018 | Updated: 07-03-2022