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Ad Astra Fellow/ Assistant Professor in ‘One Health’ (Humanities)
Applications are sought for an Ad Astra Fellow in ‘One Health’, to be based in the UCD School of History, Ireland's pre-eminent centre for historical teaching and research. The School is home to a diverse faculty of scholars with research strengths in medical history, medical humanities and environmental history. Based in History, the appointee will collaborate with the School of English, Drama, and Film and play a key role in developing a transdisciplinary academic field across UCD. History is ranked amongst the top 100 history schools in the world (QS 2024).
With a focus on the history of Africa or South America, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to humanities research initiatives in ‘One Health’. Areas of interest are:
1. To analyse the interconnected origins of disease circuits across human and animal communities and untangle the implications for contemporary disease outbreaks;
2. To deconstruct colonial and postcolonial power relations in contemporary understandings, depictions, and management of diseases, environmental crises, and zoonoses by local, national and international health organisations and bodies, including non-state actors;
3. To examine the development of pest and biological controls, in the context of twentieth-century development policies and concerns over food production, safety and security;
4. To centre the voices, lifeways, and experiences of colonised and/or indigenous communities, and analyse their responses to medical interventions, such as vaccination and sanitation programmes;
5. To make methodological contributions (a) to ongoing discussions about how to uncover new types of non-human environmental data sets (archives), such as herbariums or historic microbe collections, and (b) to debates on how to represent non-speaking subjects;
6. To demonstrate the centrality of narrative, cultural forms, and discursive systems to the construction, representation and dissemination of knowledge.
The Ad Astra Fellowship includes one funded PhD studentship, an annual research budget of €5000 and a reduced teaching load. The successful candidate will be appointed for five years with the possibility of permanency after a four-year performance review.
Deadline: 12:00 noon (IST) March 3, 2025
For further details and to apply, please contact Professor Catherine Cox, Head, UCD School of History, Dublin, Ireland.
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