We seek a talented doctoral researcher to join us in the research team created in the framework of the HERA Joint Research Program “CURRENTS– Currents of faith, places of history: religious diasporas, connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic space” (12-HERA-JRP-CE-FP-328), funded by the HERA Agency. The project consists of a partnership between the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon) and the universities of Oxford, Utrecht and Brussels.

Based on a partnership between universities in Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands and the UK, the program brings together a team of senior and junior scholars. Combining problems and methodologies sprung from social anthropology, history and religious studies, we seek to synthesize an empirical ethnographic methodology with a historical-comparative approach so as to explore ‘meaningful histories’ in their cultural and religious manifestations.  The CURRENTS JRP is offering 1 “Social Media Assistant” position for students interested in joining an international research team and collaborating in scientific dissemination activities.