3 PhD Positions Voices of Resistance
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching for the research project Voices of Resistance
Three PhD researchers (0.8 to 1.0 fte)
The project Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean investigates histories of enslavement, slavery and racialization through the use of testimonies and personal accounts from court records from across the early modern European colonial empires in the Indonesian archipelago, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The PhDs explore the cases and sources connected to the French, Portuguese and Spanish empires in Asia.