Vacancy number: 16617

Job type: PhD positions

Contract hours min: 38

Contract hours max: 40

Location: Leiden

Applying is possible up to and including: 1 september 2026

PhD Position on early colonial North America

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a 

PhD position within the project Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America (1.0 fte, 4 years) 

The PhD candidate will be working within the research project Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power, funded by the Dutch Research Councils Vidi scheme, and directed by dr. Alisa van de Haar (university lecturer in historical French literature at Leiden University). Prof. Michiel van Groesen (professor of maritime history at Leiden University) will be the co-supervisor of the PhD candidate.

The overall project