Announcements, News

Announcement: Inaugural Issue of Current Research in Digital History

From the announcement: Current Research in Digital History is an annual open-access, peer-reviewed publication of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations. By featuring short essays, it also seeks to provide an opportunity to […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Doing the work – Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation

Since its establishment in 2001, the English version of Wikipedia[1] has grown to host more than 5.6 million articles that reflect content ranging from culture and the arts to technology and the applied sciences. Consistently ranked as one of the top visited sites on the Internet, Wikipedia provides an open and freely accessible resource of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFPresenters: NFAIS 2019 Humanities Roundtable

From the CFP: Interested in presenting at this Humanities Roundtable event? Our call for presentations is open until August 31, 2018 at http://www.nfais.org/humanities-call-for-presenters. As humanities scholars utilize new technologies to produce their research, traditional measures of evaluation often do not reflect the changing output.  However, proper assessment is critical for hiring as well as for tenure […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Faculty in Data Ethics, Rice University

From the ad: The School of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas seeks applicants for an open-rank, tenured or tenure-track position as Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Ethical and Social Dimensions of Data Science. PhD required at time of appointment. The committee welcomes applications from scholars focusing in data, ethics, and society; critical […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Lecturer Pool – Digital Humanities, UC Berkeley

From the ad: The Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of outstanding lecturers to teach in the Summer Minor in the Digital Humanities. Courses are offered in a six-week session, July 2, 2018 – August 10, 2018… General duties (include but are not limited to): Teaching […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Project Manager for Digital Humanities (Temporary), Rutgers

From the ad: The Project Manager for Digital Humanities (Temporary) will collaborate with media, academic and community partners to conceptualize and execute the digital, exhibition and curricular components of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded Neighborhood Histories project. The Project Manager will professionally represent Newest Americans and the University at events and meetings […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Collections as Data – Part to Whole

About the funding: A growing number of cultural heritage organizations have invested in the creation of collections that are amenable to computational use. Increasingly, the concept of collections as data is used to align efforts of this kind. In 2016, Always Already Computational: Collections as Data, supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Journal for Digital Art History

From the CFP: For the upcoming issue of the DAH­Journal we ask for contributions on the following topics: –How are analog institutions transforming and which digital tools steer this transformation? What practices persist, which one are eliminated? –What nascent digital methodologies do museums and archives utilize to engage visitors, organize metadata, and document collections? –How […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources Librarian, SUNY Maritime College

From the ad: The Digital Scholarship and Open Educational Resources Librarian supports the service portfolio of the Library by providing client service, technical expertise, training, and support for tools and practices used by faculty, researchers, students, librarians, and other partners engaged with digital scholarship and publishing. The position also coordinates the College’s Open Educational Resource […]