The position is associated with the 5-year Starting Grant "Before Copyright: Printing privileges and the politics of knowledge in early modern Europe" funded by the European Research Council and led by Principal Investigator Marius Buning, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oslo.

"Before Copyright" examines the long-term history of printing privileges from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The intimate relationship between legal frameworks and the politics of knowledge is the primary focus of the project.