Open Positions

8

Time Span

01 Oct 2025 for 3 years

Application Deadline

01 Feb 2025

Financing

yes

Areas of study

Religious Studies, Sports Science, Gender Studies, Sustainability Sciences (Social), Social Economics, Sociology, Social Science, Educational Research, Educational Sciences, Cultural Pedagogy, Theatre Pedagogy, Media Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Educational Science, Business, Occupational, and Organisational Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Political Science, Dramaturgy, Theatre Studies, Film, Performing Arts, Art History, Art Pedagogy, Art Theory, Art Studies, Musicology, Music History, Music Pedagogy, Music Theory, American Studies, English Studies, Greek Studies, Latin Studies, Information Science, Museum Studies, German as a Foreign Language, German Studies, Ancient History, Ancient Studies, Archaeology, Protohistory, History, Mediaeval History, Early Modern History, Modern History, History of Science, Economic History, Social History, Communication Studies, Online Media, Journalism, Media Culture, Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Intercultural Studies, Media Studies, Digital Media, Islamic Studies, Turkology, Turkish, Philosophy, Ethics, Asian Studies, Australia and Oceania, European Studies, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, North American Studies, French, Romance Studies, Romance Philology, Miscellaneous, Spanish, Portuguese, Slavic Studies, General Literary Studies, General Linguistic Science, Comparative Linguistics, Comparative Literary Studies, Literary Writing, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics

Description

As of 1 October 2025, the GCSC grants for up to three years:

up to 6 PhD scholarships and up to 20 memberships 

up to 2 PhD scholarships from the DAAD ‘Graduate School Scholarship Programme’ (GSSP) . 

The GCSC expects members and scholarship holders to:

• become actively involved in at least one research area
• participate with commitment in the GCSC’s curriculum
• assume residency in or near Giessen.

Eligibility – GCSC scholarships:

• Graduation with excellent marks in the field of humanities, social and cultural sciences
• Applications from students who expect to obtain a first or upper second class honours M.A. degree (or the equivalent) are welcome as well.
• An excellent dissertation project that contributes to the GCSC’s research profile* and can be supervised at the Justus Liebig University.
• An international research perspective, i.e. international study experience, is an advantage
• Applicants must not have completed a PhD previously
• (business) fluent knowledge of at least one of the GCSC’s working languages (German, English); German language skills up to level B1 must be acquired in the course of the PhD studies

Additional requirements – GSSP scholarships: 

•    Applicants should not have graduated any longer than six years before the time of nomination (except in justified cases)

• Applicants must not have been resident in Germany for more than the last 15 months prior to the nomination (May 2025)
• Citizenship of or permanent residence in one of the countries listed by the DAAD
• We particularly invite projects that deepen the GCSC research profile towards a "transnational study of culture" and deal with perspectives, epistemologies, bodies of knowledge, social practices, etc. outside of European modernity or that decentre, decolonise or critically expand Western-influenced concepts and theories.

The GCSC focuses its research within the following Research Areas: Cultural Memory Studies | Cultural Narratologies | Cultural Transformation and Performativity Studies | Visual and Material Culture Studies | Media and Multiliteracy Studies | Cultural Identities | Global Studies and Politics of Space | Cultures of Knowledge, Research and Education | 

In addition, the GCSC has established Emerging Topics Research Groups, dealing with particularly current challenges and dynamic issues. They are located at the intersections of cultural studies and migration, economics, life sciences and religion.

The application deadline is February 1, 2025.  

Please fill in the online application form and upload all documents via our homepage
https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/applic25 

Details on the two-stage application procedure can be found at
https://uni-giessen.de/gcscapplication(for GCSC) and
https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/gcsc/gsspscholarships (for GSSP)

Further questions?
Our digital information hub is accessible from December 1 (please see https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/infohub)

Or contact us at gcsc-application at gcsc.uni-giessen.de.