PhD in Gender And Sexuality Studies

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam is seeking three PhD candidates for the project The Social Life of Sexuality: Erotic Practices, Cultural Formations, and the Unruliness of Sexuality, led by Prof Rachel Spronk./nThe project is an ethnographic study of sexual practices and the continuum of same-sex and cross-sex sexual behaviour in four sociocultural contexts (Ghana, Kenya, the Netherlands, Poland)./nCandidates are expected to conduct 10 to 12-months ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, Kenya or Poland, live in the Amsterdam area, take active part in team meetings and the research environment at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), and will have teaching duties (up to 10% of time)./nThe position is temporary 38 hours per week, initial employment for one year starting 15 August 2026, with a maximum term of four years. Salary will be €3.059 gross per month in the first year and will increase to €3.881 in the final year. The position includes secondary benefits such as 8% holiday allowance and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.