2.5-year Postdoctoral Position in South Korean Childhood and Web History 1995-2005 at University of Aarhus

The position

The ERC-funded project ‘Changing Childhoods in the Era of the WWW (WEB CHILD)’ (https://cas.au.dk/en/erc-webchild) offers a postdoctoral position to attract applicants with a well-documented track record in research into the cultural history of South Korea, Korean cultural studies, or related areas. The candidate should be genuinely interested in exploring childhood history between 1995 and 2005 and utilising various methods from history, digital humanities, and cultural studies. The position is 2,5 years (30 months).  

The position is based at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Jens Chr Skovs Vej 5, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

The position is available from March 1st, 2026 (a later start date may be negotiated).

Questions regarding the position should be directed to Associate Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen (hs.jensen@cas.au.dk)

Qualifications

• A PhD in History, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies or related areas focusing on modern Korean history and/or contemporary Korean culture and society or equal qualifications.
• At least one peer-reviewed article or a doctoral thesis in English 
• Fluency in both written and spoken English and Korean
• Ability to work independently and to collaborate in a multi-cultural team
• Genuine interest in working with childhood and web history, 1995-2005.

The work environment

This position will be part of the core team working on the WEB CHILD project, which is comprised of four junior researchers and led by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen. The team studies, in close collaboration, how the introduction of the Web impacted childhoods in and across South Korea, the United States, and Denmark. The postdoctoral researcher will also collaborate with WEB CHILD’s research partner in South Korea.

The benefits of the position include:

• Pursue visiondriven, world-class research as a team that spans across broad linguistic, technical and historical competencies
• Working in a team that develops new methods in the intersection between history, digital humanities and cultural studies to write an innovative childhood and web history of the 1990s and 2000s.
• Receive newcomerfriendly training in the use of web archives for qualitative and simple quantitative research analysis of born-digital sources by leading international experts
• ample professional development opportunities within the area of digital history, especially in relation to the cuttingedge field of web history
• Working in a team that upholds values such as worklife balance, trust, kindness and values inputs from team members regardless of their academic rank, putting people over product, aiming to create a safe and trusting research environment in which all of its members can thrive
• As much independence and authority over one’s tasks, timelines and processes as the comparative aspects of the project allow
• Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.    

Even if the candidate is expected to have a keen interest in digital history, other team members will do the advanced computational analyses in collaboration with the rest of the team’s domain experts.