8 PhD Scholarships, Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr, Germany (2017)

The Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr, supported by the Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR), invites applications for eight doctoral stipends.

The structured three-year doctoral programme on Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Identities in East Asia aims to advance knowledge on East Asian regional institution building, identity formation, and the interaction between both processes throughout history and today. By applying transnational and comparative approaches to the study of East Asia, the programme looks beyond national borders and seeks to unleash the potential of combining humanities and social sciences and to base research projects on interdisciplinary perspectives. Participating scholars allocate their research within three larger sub-themes related to transnationalisation:

- transnational labour
- regional institution building
- transcultural identities and institutions: universalization and localization.

We invite applications from highly qualified graduates from the social sciences, business and economic studies, the humanities, or East Asian studies programmes. Candidates must hold an excellent Master’s degree in one of these fields, and demonstrate advanced language skills in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

Further details:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk