MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Gender History

Position: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship on Gender History
Department of Cultures and Civilizations
Marina Garbellotti invites scholars to present expressions of interest in applying jointly with Marina Garbellotti for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF)   on    Women and madness in the 19th century .

My current research focuses on the relationship between justice, motherhood and female madness in the nineteenth century. In particular, I am studying women accused of infanticide, whose sentences were often commuted because, according to the medical understanding of the time, pregnancy and childbirth caused a temporary state of madness. In the culture of the time, it was considered unacceptable for a healthy woman to refuse to have children.

I am interested in case and comparative studies.

Hosting research group / Supervisor

We are looking for applicants for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to be presented with our Department of Cultures and Civilizations as main host institution.

I teach Family and Childhood History and Foundations and Didactics of History at the University of Verona. My research concerns the history of the family, with a particular focus on: non-biological forms of parenthood in Italy and Europe in the modern age; relationships between spouses and motherhood (16th-19th centuries). I have also worked on the history of the plague. I coordinated the Basic Research project (University of Verona), The archive of the psychiatric hospital San Giacomo alla Tomba in Verona: a heritage to discover ).

I coordinated the Verona unit of the project PRIN
2022 Work, workplaces and mobility in preindustrial Italy: a gender perspective.

Selected candidates will be offered both academic and administrative support from the Centre / Department and the University of Verona Grant Office with regards to the proposal preparation.

ELIGIBILITY
Candidates must be eligible according to the criteria established by the 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship call:

To have a PhD at the call)

To have up to 8 years research experience after PhD

To be citizens of an EU State or of an Associated Country or long-term resident in Europe (only for Global Fellowship)

Not to have resided or carried their main activity in Italy for more than 12 in the 36 months before call) – for European Fellowship

Not to have resided or carried their main activity in the country of the Host Institution in the third country for more than 12 in the 36 months before call) – for a Global Fellowship.

Besides, candidates should be fluent in English, should have excellent teamwork attitude, organizational skills and ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment.

A short CV including personal data (name, date of birth, present position, the name of a referee who has agreed to send a reference letter for you

A two-pages research proposal

One reference letter should be sent be a referee at the same address

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