Associate Professor of Early Modern European History

Salary: £59,396 - £79,163 per annum (including Oxford University Weighting), plus benefits.

Overview of the post

New College and the Faculty of History are recruiting an Associate Professor of Early Modern European History. The post is tenable from 1 October 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is attached to the Penry Williams Tutorial Fellowship at New College. The postholder will conduct research and teaching in early modern European history (1500-1700), with a preference for the field of German-speaking Europe.

In New College, the successful candidate will join a strong History team at a College with a distinguished record in the subject, and be part of a vibrant and multidisciplinary intellectual community. At the History Faculty, the candidate will join what is perhaps the largest collection of early modern historians at any university in the world. Faculty members play an important role in the lively multi-disciplinary community of early modern scholars within the wider university, particularly through the Centre for Early Modern Studies, as well as the multi-period Oxford Centres for Global History, Intellectual History, Women’s, Gender, Identity and Queer History and the History of Science and Medicine. Oxford’s libraries, galleries and museums offer extraordinary opportunities for the integration of their collections into research and teaching.

Further particulars can be found here.

If you would like to discuss this post and find out more about joining the academic community at Oxford, please contact Dr William Poole, Senior Tutor of New College ([email protected]) or Professor Martin Conway, Chair of the History Faculty Board at the Faculty of History ([email protected]). All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.

The postholder is entitled to the following annual allowances: a Fellows’ allowance (currently £4,161 p.a.), a Tutorial Fellows’ allowance (currently £12,111 p. a.), and a Housing Allowance (currently £13,305 p.a.) or free accommodation in College if suitable rooms are available. If accommodation is taken, employer-provided residential accommodation is subject to taxation as a benefit in kind, and the college does not compensate employees for any tax incurred on benefits in kind. The College also does not pay the Oxford Weighting where accommodation is taken. These allowances are shown at current (2026-27) rates, and along with the salary and Oxford Weighting, are paid through payroll and are subject to tax, to National Insurance and pension.

In addition, Tutorial Fellows may, for College business purposes, use a Research, Book & Teaching Account of (at present) £4,310 per annum (which is doubled in the first year), and an Entertainment Account of (at present) £885 per annum.

Tutorial Fellows are entitled to free lunches and dinner at the common table when this is available, and a College teaching room.