PhD Opportunity: Ethnographies of Border Mapping, Durham University & Royal Geographical Society, UK

Location: Durham University & Royal Geographical Society, UK

Job Overview: This position involves insights on relations between cartographic and other knowledge systems; how boundary maps are produced through processes that articulate across a range of media; and how the intersection of maps, knowledge, and media are mobilised to construct ideals of state territory amidst the practicalities of political bordering.

Qualifications: We welcome applicants with backgrounds in 19th/20th-century historical geography (especially in colonial contexts), political geography (especially in the politics and practice of border management and boundary delimitation), cartography, surveying, or other related fields.

Supervision: The research student will be supervised by Prof Phil Steinberg (Durham), Dr Léonie Newhouse (Durham), Prof Keith Lilley (Queen’s Belfast), and Dr Katie Parker (RGS) and based primarily at Durham.