Postdoctoral Fellowships, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Department II (Lorraine Daston), announces two Postdoctoral Fellowships for up to two years, starting date September 1, 2012. Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. The fellowship will be awarded in conjunction with the following three Working Group research projects: The Archives of Deep-Time Sciences; Machines of Memory; and  Histories of Knowledge and Gender.  Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or a related field at the time the fellowship begins; the Ph.D. degree should have been awarded in 2009 or later.

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute. It is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in English.