Category: Job Announcements

The research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB is seeking a visionary, dynamic and competent project manager to spearhead the structuring of the national research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB.

The Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a three-year early-career fellowship in digital humanities, to begin July 1, 2012. We seek scholars with expertise in any of a broad range of humanities topics and methods — quantitative history, network analysis, topic-modeling, statistical approaches to book history, lexicography, computer-assisted stylistics, text-processing, or human-computer interaction. The fellow’s research program should employ analysis of digitized texts or data to extend or contest current understandings of literary, political, social, or cultural history. Candidates must have completed their doctorates after 2008, and must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. before July 1, 2012

MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences is seeking an experienced, creative, and talented individual to fill the position of Assistant Director

The Center for Digital Humanities at South Carolina seeks to appoint a Research Assistant Professor to serve as Associate Director of the Center.  Applicants should have a PhD in a humanities discipline along with a strong background in computational research methods.

Assistant Professor of English with specialty in 19th-century British and Anglophone literatures with additional specialization in digital humanities, tenure track, beginning August 2012.  Duties and responsibilities include teaching courses in literary studies and in the Digital Technology and Culture undergraduate degree program, as well as graduate courses in nineteenth-century Anglophone literatures and digital humanities (2-2 teaching load).

Cambridge University Library is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified candidate with an interest and relevant experience in digital libraries or digital humanities to work within its digital library team from early 2012. The Foundations Project is a strategic initiative of the Library, which aims to establish a state-of-the-art infrastructure for the production, preservation and online delivery of digitised content from its world-class collections. The first iteration of the digital library is online at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/.

The Architecture + Design Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks an individual with expertise in Design and Digital Media. The position is Assistant Professor, tenure-track, beginning September 2012. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates must hold an accredited degree in architecture; and a terminal professional or academic degree in architecture or allied field. An advanced degree in one of the humanities is preferred. Candidates must also demonstrate significant professional or academic experience in digital design and interdisciplinary design practice or research.

Text Encoding Positions | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH: http://mith.umd.edu/) is hiring for two part-time (10 hours per week) positions as Text Encoders to join the Shelley-Godwin Archive project.

Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE, seeks a full-time assistant digital curator for its digital archives. Hagley is an independent research library devoted to documenting the history of American business, technology, and design. Since 2008, we have been aggressively building our digital collection and exhibits.

Rhode Island School of Design seeks a forward-thinking artist/designer, educator, and scholar for the position of Assistant Professor in its highly regarded Graduate Department of Digital + Media. The successful candidate will be an artist/designer working with emergent technologies and engaged in understanding their relationship to other media, disciplines and debates within contemporary theory and reflexive practice.