Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa

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📍 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden 💼 cdd 🕒 Posted July 08, 2026

Job Description

About the position

A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa: Historical Perspectives (1950-1990), affiliated to the Department of Religion, Philosophy and History, for a period of 3 years. The position is located at Campus Kristiansand. The preferred starting date is the beginning of 2027.
The position is linked to UiAs research groups and Language and Power.
Applicants are invited to suggest an empirically and theoretically sound research project which conceptualizes language, and specifically the role of European languages, as an historical object, heuristic device, and analytical lens for understanding African decolonization as a historical process. Their research project might, for example, address

  • the role language played for anticolonial mobilization or post-colonial nation- and state-building...
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    Job Details

    • Location Stockholm, Stockholm County
    • Job Type cdd
    • Category Postsecondary Teachers
    • Posted Date July 08, 2026
    • Application Deadline August 17, 2026