PhD scholarship in the project, ‘Merchants and Museums: The Natural History Trade’. University of Wollongong, Sydney and Melbourne with the Australian Museum.
The candidate would join a project that aims to revitalize irreplaceable zoological specimens through a closer understanding of their origins, exchange and preservation as part of a global trade in natural history. The project draws on broad expertise in anthropology, economic history, cultural history, archaeology, and spectroscopy.
Applications due 31 March 2019.