PhD scholarship in Near Eastern Studies

The School of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, invites international applications for doctoral studies in the fields of literary, scholarly and religious texts from the Ancient Near East to investigate their particular forms of creativity and the identities associated with them. Comparative and cross-cultural approaches are encouraged; the period under consideration should be the second or first millennium BCE. The successul candidate will contribute to the research project funded by Estonian Research Council, which studies the forms of creativity found in different genres of cuneiform texts and how creative methods participated in forming identities in societies. Topics for the doctoral dissertation can cover any field of creativity witnessed by the ancient cuneiform tablets and/or art products. The successful applicant will use the cuneiform philology and other research methods of cultural studies, but some methods of social or cognitive sciences can also be included.

The supervisor will be Amar Annus ([email protected]). Application deadline is 1 June 2017; the scholarship is provided by Dora Plus program, for more information see https://www.ut.ee/en/phd-theology.