The ERC project FEVER, based at the University of Heidelberg's History Department, is recruiting two

doctoral researchers (f/m/f)

We offer a 4-year appointment, on 65% TV-L salary level, starting on 1 March 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The ERC project titled "FEVER - Global Histories of (a) Disease" explores the history of fever and febrile diseases in societies within or tied to the Atlantic world between 1750 and 1840. The project studies the prevalence and sensory experience of fever(s) in the Atlantic world, controversies about the causes of fever - about contagionist and environmentalist views, that is - and historic fever remedies, especially popular, folk and indigenous febrifuges. The doctoral projects are expected to centre on specific regions, focusing on the history of fever either in a southern European society (e.g., Spain, Portugal, Italy etc.) or in one of the Iberoamerican viceroyalties (e.g. New Spain or New Granada etc.) in the given period. [Read more] (PDF, 11 Ko)