[STS-Africa] PhD Position Social Anthropology (3-4 years) University of Oslo, EPIDEMIC TRACES, Vaccination/Immunity

[Richard Rottenburg]

> Dear colleagues, 
> We would be grateful if you could forward this advert to potentially interested graduate students. The conditions are good and the project’s remit broad. 
> Thanks and best wishes, 
> Wenzel
> 
> PhD Position 
> 
> University of Oslo - Department of Social Anthropology
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> Vaccination infrastructures and the logistics of immunity in Kenya
> 
> We invite applications for a three-to-four-year position as PhD candidate in social anthropology to be based at the Department of Social Anthropology, starting in the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year. The candidate will independently develop and conduct a PhD research project in Kenya, examining how vaccination practices, institutions and infrastructures, as they have been deployed over time, shape present and future social, material, and political relations, including the conditions of health and its governance. This will form part of the broader project “Epidemic Traces. Remains of infectious disease control in Africa”, which investigates how epidemic and anti-epidemic measures durably alter bodies, ecologies, landscapes, infrastructures, kinship and activism in various African sites.
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> For more information on this project: Epidemic Traces - Department of Social Anthropology (uio.no) <https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/projects/epitraces/index.html>. 
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> The candidate should have a very recent master’s degree in social or cultural anthropology or a related discipline, and demonstrate an ability to think across humanities disciplines, combining ethnographic and historical methods with aspects of STS, material culture studies, geography, archaeology and/or heritage studies, to examine how the past – as memory, and the materiality of bodies, circulations and habits, archives, technologies and infrastructure – continues to act in the present.
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> For the job advert please visit the job advert <https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CNE852/phd-position-in-the-project-epidemic-traces>. 
> If you want to discuss your ideas, please contact Noemi Tousignant (n.tousignant at ucl.ac.uk <mailto:n.tousignant at ucl.ac.uk>), Ruth Prince (r.j.prince at medisin.uio.no <mailto:r.j.prince at medisin.uio.no>) and Wenzel Geissler (p.w.geissler at sai.uio.no <mailto:p.w.geissler at sai.uio.no>)

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