PhD Position on early colonial North America

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PhD Position on early colonial North America Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD p osition within the project Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America (1 .0 fte , 4 years) The PhD candidat e will be working within the research project ‘ Leveraging Language , Proclaiming Power ’ , funded by the Dutch Research Council ’s Vidi scheme , and directed by dr. Alisa van de Haar (university lecturer in historical French literature at Leiden University). Prof. Michiel van Groesen (professor of maritime history at Leiden University ) will be the co-supervisor of the PhD candidate. The overall project: This project examines the interplay between communication choices and power dynamics in early colonial North America (1604–1664). Seventeenth-century North America was a crossroads of intercultural contact, where European colonizers, Indigenous peoples, and—through enslavement—African individuals converged, creating a complex multilingual environment. To navigate this linguistic landscape, settlers and Indigenous communities developed diverse communication strategies. These practices were not n...