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The Journal for the History of Knowledge is looking for an assistant managing editor (0.1 fte) to start on 1 January 2022 (or as close as possible to this date) for 6 months. The position can be prolonged depending upon positive evaluation and your continued registration as a student. You are expected to be available 0.5 day per week, to take part in the editorial team meeting remotely or in Utrecht, and to take up tasks during the rest of the week.

Journal for the History of Knowledge
The Journal for the History of Knowledge is an open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the history of knowledge in its broadest sense. JHoK is affiliated with Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for History of Science and Universities. It is supported by the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Vossius Centre for the History of Humanities and Sciences, and the Stevin Centre for History of Science and Humanities. JHoK’s editorial team consist of two editors-in-chief (Sven Dupré and Geert Somsen), one managing editor (Renée Schilling), one or more language editors, and one assistant managing editor, as well as a team of editors of the JHoK Blog (Monica Klasing Chen).

Utrecht University
The editorial office of JHoK is based at Utrecht University. Founded in 1636, Utrecht University is at the forefront of developments in interdisciplinary knowledge, and home to the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities.

Function
As assistant managing editor, you will assist the editors-in chief in managing the review process of articles submitted the Journal of the History of Knowledge. Your tasks consist of:

• receiving and acknowledging articles and special issue proposals
• keeping track of the review and revision workflow and correspondence, including contacting reviewers, and sending reminders to reviewers and authors
• anonymizing submitted manuscripts and reviews
• and, in general, all communication with authors, reviewers and advisory board members

Profile and Qualifications

• You are registered as a (R)MA student for the academic year 2021-22 (at least until the end of your contract after 6 months of the starting date, 1 July)
• You are a student in the humanities (e.g. History and Philosophy of Science, Cultural History) and have a proven affinity with the history of knowledge
• You have an active command of English and a facility with communication in English
• You have the capacity to work in a diligentand reliable way
• You can work independently andas part of a team
• You have facility with IT and are willing to learn to work with journal management systems

How to apply?
Please send your letter of motivation (max. 1 page) and curriculum vitae to both editors-in-chief (s.g.m.dupre@uu.nl and g.somsen@maastrichtuniversity.nl) before 26 November. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed (online) in the morning of 3 December.

We are pleased to announce the selection of upcoming special issue Knowledge: A Matter of Time, with guest editors Hansun Hsiung, Laetitia Lenel, and Anna-Maria Meister. It is scheduled to appear in the summer of 2023.

The abstract of the special issue:

Wherever knowledge is at issue, there is temporal unevenness at play, and by extension the need for acts of negotiation: epistemic objects, inquiring subjects, and the research projects through which they come together are in the end temporary suspensions and synchronizations of superimposed times. Our special issue, “Knowledge: A Matter of Time,” analyzes instances of investigation, creation, and sense-making as assemblages of interwoven and competing tempos, rhythms, and timescales. Here, nineteenth-century classical philologists and twentieth-century animal behavior researchers find themselves sharing similar strategies for the management of long-term research, coordinating between quotidian schedules, bureaucratic funding deadlines, obsolescing evidence, and generational passings.

Looking at temporal plurality not in the abstract, but as deposited in the materials, methods, instruments, and institutions of a variety of practitioners at work, allows us to discern the connections and parallels between seemingly disparate disciplines and fields of knowledge: natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists alike all grapple with the multiplicities of time embedded in knowing. Taking such a perspective also enables us to rethink fundamental categories which have structured the historian’s discourse on time. Our special issue’s goal, then, is to refract conversations about knowing what and knowing how through the lens of knowing when (and for how long), interrogating the ways in which shifts in timing and temporal perspective bring new kinds of objects before knowers and new kinds of knowers before objects.