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October 2, 2025
Request for posting of vacancy to SSJ-FORUM.
From: Samuël Kruizinga <S.F.Kruizinga@uva.nl>
Date: 2025/04/16
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0 fte). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, which explores the two global blockades of the First and Second World Wars, and their aftermaths. More information can be found on the project website: https://blockades.eu/
The extra-European dimension of the Second World War-era blockades remains seriously understudied. Your PhD project will research Japanese analyses of resilience and vulnerability during the First World War and the interwar period. Among your research objectives, you will look into key determinants of the Japanese alliance and empire-building and maintenance in Asia from 1931 onwards, in order to explain the practical and intellectual origins of key elements of the Japanese preparation for and conduct of war. Sources will include the Japanese Diplomatic Archives in Tokyo, the Greater East Asia Ministry, and the ministries of the Navy, Agriculture and Transportation. Sheldon Garon, one of our expert partners, will co-supervise.
The PhD will be supervised by the University of Amsterdam-based PI, Samuël Kruizinga, and work closely together with the other PIs, professors Alan Kramer (Hamburg), Elisabeth Piller (Freiburg) and Jonas Scherner (Trondheim), with project Expert Partner professor Garon Sheldon, and with the other PhDs and postdoctoral researchers of the project. Specifically, this PhD position is one of five across the four BLOCKADE locations that should speak to the themes of resilience and vulnerability, that is, exploring the impact of blockades on economic, strategic and social vulnerabilities and the corresponding ability to prepare for or adapt to shocks caused by blockade from different angles.
See for more information the full vacancy text at https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/
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Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
University of Amsterdam | Associate Professor War Studies & Modern History
Kloveniersburgwal 48 | PO Box 1610 | NL-1000 BP Amsterdam
My personal page | http://www.uva.nl/profiel/s.f.
History at the UvA | https://www.uva.nl/discipline/
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