In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century. Mundell is a former History teacher with a MEd in Education and is finishing his history PhD thesis, “The Runaway Enslaved in Eighteenth-century Britain,” at […]
From the ad: The Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English with an emphasis on digital humanities, beginning in August 2019. The candidate must have a PhD in English or a related field in hand by the time of appointment. The candidate must […]
From the ad: The position requires expertise in web design & development, strong interpersonal skills, both flexibility and a self-driven work ethic, appreciation for the arts and humanities, and a passion for learning new things. Experience with tools to support digital methodologies (e.g., archiving, data-driven text analysis, new media studies, software studies, interactive mapping) and/or […]
About the opportunity: The annual Awards formally recognise outstanding and innovative work that has been carried out using the British Library’s digital collections and data. This year, the awards will commend work in four key categories… A prize of £500 for the winner and £100 for the runner up in each category will be awarded […]
From the ad: George Mason University Libraries is seeking a dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented individual to collaborate with colleagues on digital scholarship efforts, methods, and tools for the University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center (DiSC)… The George Mason University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center (DiSC) supports the interdisciplinary teaching and learning needs in digital scholarship for students, staff […]
From the ad: We’re looking to hire a full-time, contract developer to join our team. Your job will be, most simply, to make Tropy as good as it can be, working on any part of the project to help advance that goal. This position is for someone with a wide range of skills: you should […]
From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Specialist joins the new Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management team in Bryn Mawr College’s dynamic Library and Information Technology Services (LITS) organization. The Digital Scholarship Specialist will be responsible for evolving a vision for the Digital Scholarship Program, formalized in 2016, that engages faculty, students, and […]
From the ad: The University of Virginia Library’s Scholars’ Lab is seeking a new Developer Outreach & Testing Coordinator. The Developer Outreach & Testing Coordinator reports to the Head of Research and Development of the Scholars’ Lab and applies their working knowledge of design and development to create technical documentation for both developers and non-technical […]
From the ad: The Department of History at Clemson University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Public and Digital History at the rank of assistant professor. The successful candidate will take the lead in an emphasis area in public history for history majors and contribute to an emphasis area (and potentially a Ph.D. program) […]
From the CFP: The fourth Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities continues conversations that have taken place at earlier DHU conferences. It enables scholars in Utah and neighboring regions to dwell further on issues that are of concern to the digital humanities. DHU4 explores the links and intersections which join humans, machines, and disparate vocational cultures. […]
