The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a PhD scholarship in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER_LEAGUE, from 1 January 2026.


The scholarship is for 3 years starting on 1 January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.



Introduction

INNER_LEAGUE is a 5-year ERC Consolidator Project (2025-2030), headed by Haakon A. Ikonomou (PI). INNER_LEAGUE provides a comprehensive social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat. The project will investigate the inner life of the secretariat to (a) understand how it shaped the professional lives of the ca. 4000 people that worked there. And (b) how this global workplace shaped the lasting bureaucratic infrastructures of multilateralism it serviced.

To deliver on its undertaking, the project implements an approach combining social, institutional, and digital history across three work packages: (i) Communities...