Call for applications
Post-doctoral Fellowships
University of Frankfurt /Free University of Berlin _ Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice _ Applied and Global"
Duration and Starting Date: 12 Months, starting on either September 1st or October 1st 2019, according to the fellows' convenience.
The Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice _ Appplied and Global", funded by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and located at the University of Frankfurt with a branch at the Free University of Berlin is seeking to appoint up to three post-doctoral fellows in political theory/political philosophy for the academic year 2019/2020. The Fellows will be hosted by Frankfurt University at its Institute for Advanced Studies in Bad Homburg (near Frankfurt) and will be part of the Frankfurt academic community. They are invited to spend a certain period of time at the Free University Berlin for a research stay, details to be arranged.
Candidates should have completed, or be close to the completion of, a doctorate in political theory/political philosophy, and should have proven potential to conduct and publish research at an international level. Candidates' research should fall within the Centre's areas of focus, namely global justice and applied theories of justice.
Please send your application in Englisch
IN ONE PDF DOCUMENT (a 2-3 page research project, CV, writing sample of preferably not more than 7,000 Words [can be an excerpt]) and two letters of reference (and no more than two))
The reference letters may also be sent directly from the referees.
Conditions of Award
Justitia Amplificata Post-doc Fellowships: Conditions of Award
We offer a non-taxable grant of 2300€/month.
Additional benefits include a return trip from the fellows’ home town to Frankfurt for the fellow (not for his partner or his family); a mission allowance of 2,000€/year; a household allowance of 300€/month for accompanying partners (if the partner’s income is not higher than 1,250€/month) and a dependants allowance of 300€/month for each dependent child. Health insurance and accommodation expenses are not included in the package, although assistance in purchasing a suitable German health insurance will be provided.
Fellows will be provided with office space at the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Bad Homburg (Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften). Fellows who wish to live at the Institute will be offered the opportunity to rent one of the Institute’s flats (for more information, see: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften). Fellows who wish to live in Frankfurt will receive some assistance in finding a suitable accommodation.
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