[Buddha-l] FW: [Indo-Eurasia] Job announcements: Postdoctoral researcher (South Asian / Buddhist Studies) and research assistant (social movements).

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From: Laurence Cox [Laurence.Cox at nuim.ie ]
Sent: 01 August 2012 11:55
Subject: Job announcements: Postdoctoral researcher (South Asian / Buddhist
Studies) and research assistant (social movements).

Dear colleagues,
The advertisements for a postdoctoral researcher in South Asian / Buddhist
studies and a research assistant in social movements based at NUIM (Ireland)
are now available online at http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/   (search
under "Education" and "Academic") and at
http://humanresources.nuim.ie/vacancies.shtml  

Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested.

The successful candidates will be part of a team researching the life of U
Dhammaloka, a Dublin-born migrant worker who became an activist monk in
early C20th Burma, other Irish figures in the Asian Buddhist Revival with
their transnational organisational links and the wider world of
working-class western Buddhists. The postdoctoral researcher will be
exploring Indian and Sri Lankan archives while the research assistant will
be attempting to identify U Dhammaloka's pre-Buddhist past as a plebeian
activist in the US. This funded project, "Early western Buddhists in Asia:
transnational lives, hidden histories, colonial encounters", is associated
with a wider 3-year research project on other aspects of U Dhammaloka and
early western Buddhists in Asia. Further background is available on
http://buddhistcrossroads.wordpress.com/presenters-at-the-conference/researc
h-posts-for-the-u-dhammaloka-project/ 

The postdoctoral researcher will trace U Dhammaloka's activities in Ceylon
and India, the involvement of other Irish figures such as John Bowles Daly
and U Visuddha in the Buddhist revival, and "beachcombers" in this same
context. The postdoctoral researcher will be required to plan, carry out and
analyse research in archives in South Asia, in collaboration with the wider
team, and to carry out related publication and dissemination work. As such
the candidate will be experienced in qualitative research, with the ability
to travel extensively and carry out research in the field over a 3-month
period, and be fluent in at least one of Sinhala and Hindu-Urdu. A
specialisation in religious studies or history would also be beneficial, but
is not required.

The research assistant will be searching for records of U Dhammaloka during
his time as a migrant worker in the US (late C19th), as well as the wider
worlds of migrant workers, plebeian freethinkers and spiritualists, and
social movement contexts such as union organising, anarchism, Fenianism etc.
The research assistant will be required to plan, carry out and analyse
research in archives in North America, , in collaboration with the wider
team, and to carry out related dissemination and publication work. As such
the candidate will have qualitative research skills, with the ability to
travel extensively and carry out research in the field over a 2-month
period. A thematic focus in one of the contexts mentioned above would also
be beneficial, but is not required.

Full details of job requirements and how to apply are in the attached
booklets [the above group cannot move attachments, contact Prof. Cox for
them. JK] and on the websites listed above. For informal enquiries please
feel free to contact me (but by Monday 6th August as I will then be on
holiday until close to the deadline). We plan to hold interviews (by phone
or skype for candidates not currently based in Ireland) in the week starting
3 September. The successful applicants must start work by 1 October (this is
a condition of the funding).
"Early western Buddhists in Asia" is supported by a Government of Ireland
Advanced Collaborative Research Project grant from the Irish Research
Council.

Dr Laurence Cox
Department of Sociology
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland






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