PhD position – Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands

The PhD candidate will develop a dissertation research project aligned with the project theme above and will be supervised by Dr. Asebe Regassa Debelo. Alongside your PhD research, the position includes teaching responsibilities as required by the Graduate School in Geography and Earth System Sciences.

You will join the Political Geography Group, which brings together researchers from Asia, Africa, and Europe to study the entanglements of development, humanitarianism, war, displacement, extraction, frontier and border violence, and environmental change.

• You have or are close to completing a Master's degree in human geography, anthropology, development studies, area studies, or another related discipline

• In addition, research experience in East African pastoralist territories and language skills (Swahili and/or Afaan Oromo) will be an asset.