[Antiquitas] Fw: Research position in historical linguistics on ERC Crossreads project

[Vierros, Marja K]

Hei,
tutkijalle paikka auki!
Yt. Marja






Researcher in Historical Linguistics – ERC Advanced Grant (885040) “Crossreads”

Faculty of Classics, St Giles, Oxford

Grade 7: £32,817 - £40,322 p.a.

The Faculty of Classics invites applications for a Researcher in Historical Linguistics on the ERC Advanced Grant (885040) “Crossreads” reporting to the P.I. Professor Jonathan Prag. This full-time post based at Oxford University is fixed-term, starting in the second year of a 5-year project for a duration of 36 months, commencing October 2021.

‘Crossreads: Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean’ (https://crossreads.web.ox.ac.uk/) will develop and analyse a comprehensive corpus of all the written (epigraphic) documents from the island. The project will offer the first coherent account of the interactions and interplay of linguistic and textual material culture in ancient Sicily over a period of 1,500 years. Crossreads builds upon the I.Sicily project (http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk and  https://isicily.org/) exploiting digital humanities tools and methods for both data publishing and data analysis. The project breaks down into four distinct ‘work-packages’, focused upon corpus-building, historical linguistics, palaeography and petrography: this post is integral to the historical linguistics work-package.

A researcher with a background in historical linguistics will spend three years investigating the development and interaction of languages in use on the island in antiquity. The successful candidate will have, or be close to completion of, a doctorate in a related field; specialist knowledge of ancient Greek and/or Latin, such as the inscriptional dialects in ancient Greek, or the historical phonology and regional orthographic conventions in Latin; and experience of, or demonstrable ability to work with digital linguistic corpora and associated digital research tools and methods.

This is a unique opportunity to develop an original and substantial corpus of material in the study of the linguistic and cultural history of a key region of the ancient Mediterranean, developing independent research as part of a larger, multidisciplinary team.

Further information can be found online at https://jobs.ox.ac.uk/ searching for vacancy ID 150428, or via the following direct link:

Researcher in Historical Linguistics<https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=150428>

application deadline 12 noon, 10 May 2021.

I am happy to answer any queries directly.

Best wishes

Jonathan Prag
Jonathan.prag at merton.ox.ac.uk<mailto:Jonathan.prag at merton.ox.ac.uk>


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