A PhD researcher Economic and Social History is available at University of Utrecht. The project is funded by European Research Council, as part of a Starting Grant awarded to project-co-ordinator Dr. Tine De Moor.
In this subproject, you will be in charge of analyzing the long-term development of institutions for collective action across Europe –concentrating on NW-Europe and Southern Europe, on the basis of a number of large datasets, hereby focusing on the emergence, change and dissolution of such institutions and the role of exogenous factors such as urbanization, agricultural change, changes on the labour market in provoking such dynamics etc.
Besides this study on aggregated data, the PhD will furthermore perform a number of case-studies to get a more detailed understanding of the interaction between these institutions and exogenous changes.
You will be based at Utrecht University, and be part of the research team led by Dr. Tine De Moor and will as such also be part of the department of social and economic history led by prof. Jan Luiten van Zanden and prof. Maarten Prak.
PhD researcher Economic and Social History
