Full Professor of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline: 10 February 2026.
The Geneva Graduate Institute is recruiting a Full Professor of International History and Politics (IHP). The applicants’ PhD and research have to be clearly historical in nature. The applicants must have an outstanding research and teaching track record and have made a significant contribution to their scholarly fields. A public intellectual profile is a plus but not a must.
They are looking for applicants with a broad vision and wide research interests whose work focuses on several of the following fields:
• the history of postcolonial state-building processes; and/or
• the history of transnational/global political violence; and/or
• the history of democratic and/or of authoritarian regimes; and/or
• the history of discrimination, especially racism, in comparative perspective.
Regarding all four fields:
• they will consider all regional specialisations;
• they will only consider applicants who focus on the modern and/or contemporary period.
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