Advertisement for a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the European Research Council at Sciences Po, France.
General information
Position Definition: Post-doctoral researcher
Place of work: France and/or Spain
Type of contract: Temporary contract
Contract duration: 24 months
Expected hiring date: 1st May 2026
Work time: full-time
Required level of study: PhD and post-doctorate
Successful applicants will be interviewed by 1 March 2026
The European Research Council Advanced Grant project “The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945” seeks a Postdoctoral researcher on aerial bombardment in the Spanish Civil War.
Application deadline: 15 January 2026 Start date: 1st May 2026

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Spanish Civil War

Funded by the European Research Council, the Advanced Grant “The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945” aims at exploring the evolution of types of warfare that targeted the enemy’s civil population, focusing on (1) aerial bombardment, and civil defense (2) food blockades, and home front campaigns to ration food, and (3) efforts to “demoralize” enemy civilians, while boosting “morale” at home. We investigate how the transnational circulation of knowledge and practices culminated by World War II in systematic attacks on civilians and the creation of home fronts that mobilized civilians. The Principal Investigator (PI) is Prof. Sheldon Garon, a global historian and specialist in Japanese history. The project is hosted by the Centre d’histoire of Sciences Po, at Sciences Po, in Paris, France, an international research institution with strengths in history and the social sciences…

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