The Centre for Area Studies invites applications for
8 positions for post-docs (researcher, TV-L 13)
for a period of 4 years.

The recently founded CAS focuses on the ways in which different world regions react to challenges of increasing global connectedness.
The CAS invites applications for projects that take a comparative approach to analysing political and cultural changes in a globalising world since the late 18th century.
Main research fields include: Popular culture and globalisation in East Asia; Migration flows and commodity chains; Political organisation beyond statehood in Latin America and Eastern Europe; Forms of macro-regional integration in the Islamic World; South Asia and Latin America in International Organisations; Colonialism and postcolonial orders in Africa and Asia; the spatial turn and its impact on area studies.

Prerequisites
- doctoral degree in either an area study or in a social science or humanities subject with particular focus on the area to be investigated
- an excellent record of publications
- Willingness to engage in a highly interdisciplinary collaborative research centre
- a 1000-word project proposal fitting into the general research programme of the Centre (see for a detailed description www.uni-leipzig.de/cas)
- Proof of Proficiency in English and in main languages used in the regions under investigation.

Please send an application (CV, copies of degree certificates, proof of language proficiency, two letters of reference, a declaration of interest and the project proposal by November, 25, 2009 (postal date) to

Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell
Director of CAS
Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 04105 Leipzig
Email: cas@uni-leipzig.de