Category: Job Announcements

WEB APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER, Comparative Media Studies-HyperStudio Team, to build the front and back ends of scalable web applications. Will be part of the core team responsible for the design and development of online tools for information visualization and user collaboration in the humanities and social sciences. Will provide system design, prototyping, implementation, functional verification, debugging, and deployment on Mac OS X and UNIX server platforms; and occasional system administration support. Will work closely with a team that includes developers, designers, graduate and undergraduate students, and faculty.

CRASSH is seeking a postdoctoral Research Associate to lead a six-month project on the digital humanities and Transferable Skills Training (TST). The project focuses specifically on the transferability of digital skills, and aims to increase awareness among early-career researchers  of how the digital skills they have learnt in one context (social, academic or professional) can be applied in another.

Working within Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services unit, the arXix Senior Administrator is responsible for overseeing and managing daily activities associated with the administration of arXiv.org.

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine seeks an innovative, collaborative and service-oriented librarian to join a new medical library. The Web and Emerging Technologies Librarian has overall responsibility for the design, development and management of the Medical Library web site, web applications, social media and mobile interfaces. The primary goals of this position are to continuously improve web delivery of information to students, faculty, staff and the wider community and to support the integration of information technologies and resources into the curriculum.

Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for PhD interns to join the social media collective for Spring and Summer 2012. For these positions, we are looking primarily for social science PhD students (including communications, sociology, anthropology, media studies, information studies, etc.)

Columbia University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian. Duration: “date of hire until June 30, 2014 (with possibility of extension).”

University of California, Berkeley: Academic Program Mgt Officer 5, Executive Director, Big Data & Data & Democracy Initiatives –  CITRIS #13213.

Postdoctoral Position in Cultural Heritage and Identity, Netherlands 2012.

The Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English tenure-track position with specialization in Internet Linguistics or related field of intersection between Linguistics and Digital Humanities to begin late August 2012.

UCL invites applications for a Professor of Digital Humanities. This is a joint appointment, tenable in any of the Departments of the Faculties of Engineering Sciences or Arts & Humanities, which will have as its principal focus activity within the interdisciplinary UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.