Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Fellowship for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University

About the funding: The Program will enable international scholars to study the digital collections at Leiden University Libraries and to collaborate with the innovative Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Leiden University. The program will financially support the research fellows to stay in Leiden for a period of two months, where fellows  will be invited […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Natural Language Processing Specialist, Tufts

From the ad: Reporting to the Director of Academic Data Services, the Digital Humanities Natural Language Processing (NLP) Specialist is responsible for working closely with a diverse client base comprised of faculty, students, and staff to help them utilize computationally-intensive methods and technology applied to a vast array of contemporary and historical textual source material […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc Researcher in Medieval Middle Eastern History, OSU

From the ad: The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an online reference tool for the medieval Middle East.  Specific duties include advanced data collection using the indices of published primary sources in at least two different languages; contributing to editorial review and design […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Gender, institutions and the changing uses of petitions in 18th-century London

When and Why do Petitions Matter? This post is an extended version of my paper for the April 2019 workshop held by the AHRC Research Network on Petitions and Petitioning from the Medieval Period to the Present, on the theme Petitioning in Context: when and why do petitions matter? The network is explicitly interdisciplinary, international and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities Forum 2019

From the CFP: Now in its ninth year, the Digital Humanities Forum brings together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from the University of Kansas and beyond to celebrate and explore digital scholarship as a diverse and growing field of humanist inquiry. This year, the theme of the Forum is: Bodies, Justice, Futures. With this […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Technology Specialist, NYU

From the ad: The Digital Humanities Technology Specialist is the DevOps engineer and technical developer within NYU IT Research Technology and NYU Libraries Specialized Research Services, a group that encompasses Data Services (DS) and Digital Scholarship Services (DSS). This Specialist will work alongside IT staff, librarians and researchers to plan and develop cutting edge research […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Immersive Technologies Librarian, University of Rochester

From the ad: The Immersive Technologies Librarian’s primary focus is the creation of Studio X, a program and space for students, staff, and faculty to augmented, extended, mixed, and virtual reality (XR) and related technologies. The purpose of Studio X is to inspire innovative and interdisciplinary engagement, and to facilitate the development of a rich […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Cathedral and the Simulacrum

… I suddenly felt the urge to imagine Notre Dame as it had always stood: tall, splendid and unmoved. At the center of the Old City. Battered yet unscathed, as Victor Hugo had seen it, through so many troubles and troubling times. Notre Dame had survived the French Revolution. How did I know this? I […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Tennessee

From the ad: Reporting to the Head of the Scholars’ Collaborative, the Digital Scholarship Librarian works closely with information professionals and technology experts in the Libraries, on campus, and at other institutions to assist campus scholars with integrating digital resources and methodologies with traditional approaches for teaching, learning, research, and engagement. As a member of […]