The European Research Council (ERC)  project   Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is offering Post-Docs,  PhDs and Visiting PhD's fellowships beginning in 2015-16 for outstanding candidates  fluent in Chinese, Arabic and Persian (at least one of the above) and with a sound knowledge of the history of the Mongol Empire. The successful candidates will take part in a team work, which creates a prosopographical database of people active under Mongol rule, and can use the  accumulated data for their own research.

For detailed announcement see  the attached files or visit  http://mongol.huji.ac.il/fellowships-and-funding-opportunities

For more info about the project visit http://mongol.huji.ac.il/ or contact Michal Biran at biranm@huji.ac.il

Deadline: February 1st 2015