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PhD Student Position in Archaeology Available
Large Scale Historical Industrial Exploitation of Polar Areas (LASHIPA)
Arctic Centre
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Application Deadline: Monday, 25 June 2007

For more information, please contact:
Louwrens Hacquebord
Phone: +31-50-3636834
E-mail: l.hacquebord [at] rug.nl

or contact:
Jan Willem Veluwenkamp
Phone: +31-50-3636833
E-mail: j.w.veluwenkamp [at] rug.nl


The Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands is
accepting applications for a 4-year PhD student position in archaeology
as part of the IPY Large Scale Historical Industrial Exploitation of
Polar Areas (LASHIPA) Project. The research will focus on the
exploitation of natural resources by European whalers and Russian
trappers as well as their cross-cultural contacts in the seventeenth and
eighteenth century in Spitsbergen (Svalbard).

The Arctic Centre specializes in polar research under the research
disciplines of archaeology, history, geography, and biology in and
concerning the polar areas. The Arctic Centre works mostly within the
framework of international research projects and also offers
under/graduate courses in Arctic Studies.

Applications must be marked "Vacancy number 207101" and sent by Monday,
25 June 2007, to:
University of Groningen
Personnel Department
P.O. Box 72
9700 AB Groningen
The Netherlands

For further information on LASHIPA, please go to:
http://www.lashipa.nl

For further information on the Arctic Centre, please go to:
http://www.arctic-centre.nl