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Job: Digital Humanities Librarian, Central Connecticut State University

From the ad: Central Connecticut State University’s Elihu Burritt Library seeks a collaborative, creative and enthusiastic Digital Humanities Librarian to join the professional staff.  The successful candidate will provide leadership in identifying trends and emerging technologies in digital humanities and building partnerships and cultivating relationships with key university units to develop digital humanities collections and […]

News, Resources

Resource: Starter kit for considering a DH dissertation

From the resource: Successful non-traditional dissertations include a comic book (Nick Sousanis), a hip-hop album (A.D. Carson), code and design without written chapters (me), and the use of digital formats and methods such as a Tumblog counter-narrative (Jade E. Davis) or topic modeling (Lisa Rhody). Are you curious about using digital methods or forms to […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Engaging Absence

In the Digital Humanities, it is common to weigh the research potential of collections as data by evaluating their representativeness. That is to say, we ask to what extent the data have the capacity to characterize a person, an event, a period, or an experience. Where the data exhibit significant informational paucity, indeterminate values, inordinate […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities

From the post: What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the center of our endeavors? How does this shift challenge and expand both the humanities and the digital? What happens to Black and African American humanities research when we lead with the digital? Interdisciplinary inquiry […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Finding Community in Digital Humanities – 2018 Digital Frontiers/IDRH Conference

From the post: The Call for Proposals for the 2018 Digital Frontiers/IDRH Conference—Finding Community in Digital Humanities conference is now live! Please submit proposals for presentations, panels, workshops, an et. on or before Friday, April 6, 2018. 2018 marks the first year of conference collaboration between Digital Frontiers (University of North Texas) and the Institute […]

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Job: Technical Lead / Solutions Architect, Aga Khan University

From the ad: The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (‘the Institute’) based in London, United Kingdom is looking to recruit a Solutions Architect to lead the technical development of the European Research Council-funded Digital Humanities project (KITAB). The incumbent will work closely with the academic researcher (Principal Investigator-PI) to help […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Ethics and Archiving the Web

From the post: MITH is very excited to announce our participation in the Ethics and Archiving the Web National Forum which will be taking place at the New Museum in New York City, March 22-24. This collaboration between Rhizome and the Documenting the Now project will bring together activists, librarians, journalists, archivists, scholars, developers, and […]

By: Ed Summers
Job Announcements, News

Job: Data Project Manager, University of Michigan

From the ad: The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world’s largest archive of digital social science data, is now accepting applications for a Data Project Manager to plan, monitor, and oversee the day-to-day management of several data acquisition and archiving projects. Read the full ad here.