[Themaintainers] Job PhD student "Urban Repair Networks: the City of Luxembourg and Esch-sur-Alzette"

[Stefan Krebs]

The University of Luxembourg invites applications for the following 
vacancy in its Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH):

Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in the field of contemporary 
history/history of technology (M/F)

- Ref. OTP R-AGR-3499-10-C, Acronym: REPAIR
- 14 months fixed-term contract, renewable up to 4 years, full-time 
position (40h/week)
- Student and employee status (48 months studies programme)

The PhD student will be a member of the Public History research unit 
within the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg. He/she will work under 
supervision of Dr. Stefan Krebs in the FNR funded research project 
“Repairing Technology – Fixing Society? History of Maintenance and 
Repair in Luxembourg (1918-1990)” (C15/SC/12547405). The REPAIR project 
will be the first systematic historical study of repair practices, 
networks and infrastructures in the short 20th century (c. 1918-1990). 
Within the context of this emerging topic in the field of the history of 
technology, the project will analyse the changes and continuities in the 
history of maintenance and repair, using Luxembourg as a key example of 
a Western consumer society. REPAIR questions the prevailing master 
narrative of the emergence of a consumer society and concomitant decline 
of repair, helping to better understand when and how people care for the 
technologies they routinely use and thereby highlighting the hidden 
importance of maintenance and repair. REPAIR encompasses three research 
strands: the first investigates the maintenance and repair of one of the 
quintessential 20th century consumer technologies: the telephone; the 
second traces the decline of professional repair services in Luxembourg, 
using Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette as case studies; and the 
third focuses on the development of post-war self-repair practices, 
situated between leisure activity and political activism. Analysing the 
maintenance of technical infrastructures, urban repair offers and 
cultures of self-repair will advance our historical knowledge of the 
large material, organisational, knowledge and discursive investments 
needed to keep technologies functioning. By revealing when, why and how 
technical objects were maintained, repaired or scrapped, the project 
will provide crucial insights into the historical and political contexts 
of the emergence of consumer identities, the hidden societal and 
environmental dimensions of repair, and the quest for more sustainable 
consumption practices.

Your Role:

- Write a thesis on “Urban Repair Networks: the City of Luxembourg and 
Esch-sur-Alzette”
- Contribute to research in the field of contemporary history, history 
of technology and environmental history

For further information please contact: stefan.krebs at uni.lu

Your Profile

- Master’s degree or diploma in history, history of technology or 
related field
- Experience in qualitative research methods
- Good command of the following languages: English, French and/or German

We offer

- Personal work space at the University
- Dynamic and multicultural environment

Further Information

Candidates should submit the following documents:

- Motivation letter
- Curriculum vitae
- Copies of diplomas
- List of publications (if applicable)

Please send your application online by 13 January 2019 to 
stefan.krebs at uni.lu

Or apply online: http://emea3.mrted.ly/21ab7

The University of Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer.

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