Deadline for applications: 10 September 2025 
Place of work: Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA FCSH
Institution: NOVA FCSH

Position with the reference 2023.11076.TENURE.206:

Call for applications for the recruitment of a position for an Assistant Professor in the subject area of History with a relevant CV in History of Fascisms, Antifascism and Authoritarianism, at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). Once hired, the university academic teaching member will be made an integrated member of the Institute of Contemporary History Research Unit, and in the Associated Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, and is expected to develop their research and teaching activities in accordance with the strategic objectives of the said Research Unit and the History Department of NOVA FCSH. The successful candidate will also contribute to strengthening and deepening the Society and Politics and Memory and Heritage
strategic cohesion pillars of NOVA FCSH. The successful candidate must demonstrate in-depth knowledge and experience in innovative research in 20th century history of fascism, anti-fascism and authoritarianism, as well as teaching undergraduate courses on these topics, both from a national (History of Portugal) and international perspective. The research profile should include one or more of the following themes: the confrontation between anti-fascism, in its different traditions, and right-wing authoritarianism in the interwar crisis; the relations between different forms of authoritarianism and their antagonism with other political systems; the survival of authoritarian forms and antagonisms in the post-war period; the late period of right-wing authoritarianism and the processes of transition to democracy.

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