The University of Oxford is an equal opportunities employer.
Applications are sought for a Research Associate to work on the project 'The persistence of conflict: China's war with Japan: Experience, legacy, and memory, 1931 to the present'. This project has been funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Scheme award, and will be directed by Dr Rana Mitter. The project is interdisciplinary, combining historical and social science approaches to understanding the impact on China, widely defined, of the Sino-Japanese war of the mid-twentieth century.
The Research Associate will take up his/her position on 1 September 2007, and will be expected to have a Ph.D. Degree, or to have completed one by that date as a condition of taking up the position. Applicants should have a high level of proficiency in the Chinese language. Experience of research conditions, including archival work, within China would be a distinct advantage. The post is available for a fixed term of two years. The salary will be in the range of £25,889 to £27,465 a year (grade 7 - restricted to the first three points due to funding).
Further particulars can be obtained from http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/jobs/index.htm. Five copies of applications comprising a covering letter and full curriculum vitae should be sent by 12 noon on 28 June 2007 to the Oriental Studies Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE (e-mail applications will be accepted from overseas candidates only). Applicants should also e-mail an example of their written work and arrange for two references to be e-mailed to charlotte.vinnicombe@orinst.ox.ac.uk by the closing date.