University of Cantabria, Spain
Deadline: 15h Dec 2025
The University of Cantabria is offering a fully funded four-year PhD-position in early modern history, linked to the national research project “Commercial and Religious Networks in the Iberian Asian Pacific (17th–18th Centuries)” (PID2024-160562NA-I00). The position is part of a global partnership between the University of Cantabria and the University of Macau, gaining experience in both European and Asian academic environments.
The doctoral project will focus broadly on the interactions between merchants and missionaries operating within the Iberian monarchies in the Asian Pacific in the 17th and 18th centuries. The doctoral researcher will contribute directly to these aims by working on the reconstruction of Manila’s social and economic networks, analysing the circulation of people, capital, objects and information across the region, and helping to build a new biographical database of the diverse communities that inhabited Manila in the mid-eighteenth century.
For further details, the official call can be found at this link:
https://boc.cantabria.es/boces/verAnuncioAction.do?idAnuBlob=427073
Applications must be submitted via the University of Cantabria’s electronic office:
https://sede.unican.es/Tramites-y-procedimientos/detalle?t=20
If you know of someone who might be interested in pursuing a PhD on these themes, I would be very grateful if you could share this information and encourage them to get in touch with Marina Torres Trimállez (torrestm@unican.es) for any questions about the project, the position or the application process.
The deadline for applications is 15 December 2025.