Postdoctoral position in Digital Humanities with a focus on Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Digital Humanities with a focus on Natural Language Processing in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER LEAGUE starting January 1, 2026.

The position is a fixed term position for 36 months.

Introduction

INNER LEAGUE is a 5-year ERC Consolidator Project (2025-2030), headed by Dr Haakon A. Ikonomou (PI). INNER_LEAGUE provides a comprehensive social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations (LN) Secretariat. The project will investigate the inner life of the secretariat to (a) understand how it shaped the professional lives of the ca. 4,000 people who worked there. And (b) how this global workplace shaped the lasting bureaucratic infrastructures of multilateralism it serviced.

To deliver on its undertaking, the project implements an approach combining social, institutional, and digital history across three work p...