Dear Colleagues, Please review the Post-Doctoral fellowship offered below. Note that it is *effective immediately* (ie someone can start in October 2025) though we also take applications for next year. The ISF project Steppe Cities in Medieval Mongolia: Historical, Archaeological and Environmental Perspectives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the direction of Professors Gideon Shelach-Lavi and Michal Biran is offering a Post-Doctoral scholarship in Inner Asian history beginning in October 2025 (ie next month) or later. Scholars who have received their Ph.D. after October 1st 2020 and no later than September 1st 2025 are eligible to apply. The successful candidates will be part of a unique interdisciplinary team focusing on cities that nomads established in the heartland of the Mongolian steppe from the 8th to 14th centuries CE. Integrating historical, archaeological, and environmental approaches, we aim to elucidate the roles, sustainability, and broader significance of these urban centers within the nomadic empires of the Uighurs (744-840); Khitans/Liao (907-1125) and Mongol/Yuan (1206-1368). The historical team will mine Chinese (and other) sources for relevant information to the understanding of the history of medieval Mongolia, with an emphasis on its cities and their functioning and sustainability, namely the role of pastoralism, local agriculture, and outside supply via regional or international trade in their economy; the identity and occupation of the people manning these cities, the role of the imperial center in founding and supporting these cities etc. We will map and analyze this data using qualitative and quantitative tools. More details in the attached file or at https://www.academia.edu/143951531/CFA_Post_Doctoral_Fellowship_Steppe_Cities_in_Medieval_Mongolia For questions, please contact Prof. Michal Biran at biranm@mail.huji.ac.il