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Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of U.S. Art History, George Mason University

The George Mason University Department of History and Art History invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of U.S. Art History. From the ad: Areas of specialization in the art and material culture of the United States from any time period from the colonial era to the present will be considered. Special preference will be […]

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Editors’ Choice: A Life Reduced to Data

In 1861, the census for the colony of New South Wales (as it was back then) recorded just one Chinese woman living in Balmain in Sydney. The historian Eric Rolls, writing in 1992, commented that this ‘lone woman is exceptional and inexplicable’. Inexplicable? My partner and collaborator Kate Bagnall is a historian of Chinese Australia and […]

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Job: Experimental Humanities Digital Projects Coordinator

 From the job ad: The Experimental Humanities (EH) initiative at Bard College seeks a Digital Projects Coordinator to join its ranks beginning as soon as possible. EH is Bard’s liberal arts-driven answer to the Digital Humanities. It emphasizes both “new” media technologies and the reconsideration of “old” media in the study of what it means […]

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Editor’s Choice: How digitized changed historical research

Digitized archival collections are going nowhere. Any historian conversant with archival debates will be aware of this. The pressure for “more product less process” and the backlogs in many repositories combined with the neo-liberal economy of higher education in which access for consumers often trumps all other concerns means that digitizing documents and putting them […]

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Editor’s Choice: Love Letters and the Digital Turn

There should be no need to mention in a blog about early American history that the digital turn is, perhaps, a fait accompli. However, over the past couple of years more and more articles have called into question the ways in which access to digital archives and digitized sources has changed both the questions historians […]

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Job: Digital Humanities Developer at Columbia University Libraries

From the ad: Columbia University Libraries seeks a collegial, collaborative, and creative Digital Humanities Developer to join our Libraries IT staff. The Digital Humanities Developer will provide technology support for digital humanities-focused projects by evaluating, implementing and managing relevant platforms and applications; the Developer will also analyze, transform and/or convert existing humanities-related data sets for […]

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Job: Senior Digital Scholarship Strategist

From the job listing: Design and coordinate small- and large-scale digital scholarship projects with an emphasis on publishing in a variety of open access platforms. Collaborate with staff, faculty, librarians, students, and other researchers in project conceptualization, development, deployment, evaluation, and sustainability. Source: See full post.