Two and a half-year Post.doc. position - ‘Bag Sejlet’ (‘Behind the sail’)

Opportunity summary

Employment type: FULLTIME. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated researcher to join the National Museum’s emerging centre for Viking Age Research, in a 2.5 year postdoctoral role funded by A.P. Møller.About the position In connection with a planned Viking-Age exhibition ‘Bag Sejlet’, the selected candidate will take lead in designing and executing a research project which will have synergies with the developing exhibition. The exact research themes and questions are to be designed by the selected candidate, but the proposed postdoctoral project is expected to relate to one of the following themes:The organization and dynamics of textile-production (e.g. explore intersections between textile work and gender, links to coerced labour, or technical expertise) The multispecies and entangled worlds of the Viking Age (e.g. wool economy and sheep-human relationships, and/or plant fibre technologies; wood-human intra-actions); Other social groups and phenomena that existed ‘behind the sail’ and in the shadow of conventional Viking narratives, e.g. everyday life, childhood and life-course, social inequality in households and beyond. You will be collaborating closely with Research Professor Marianne Hem Eriksen and a wider research network of leading Viking-Age scholars1 …

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