Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellow & Project Coordinator in Digital Humanities and Popular Political Education, Smith

From the ad: Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands will produce research on domestic worker history and create digitally-based products to support key elements of NDWA’s capacity-building initiatives… The Fellow will assist with research, content development and design for the core political education curriculum, provide expert assistance in popular education pedagogy, including advising on best practices for […]

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Job: Digital Research Studio Director, Claremont Colleges

From the ad: The Claremont Colleges are seeking an energetic, innovative, collaborative, and highly organized Digital Research Studio Director (DRSD) to play a key leadership role in developing and supporting the Digital Humanities within the consortium.  This position is funded by a five-year grant from the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation.  The colleges are currently in […]

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Job: Assistant Professor of English – Digital Humanities, Marshall University

From the ad: Applications invited for a tenure-eligible assistant professorship in English with specialization in Digital Humanities. We are seeking a scholar with a well-developed Digital Humanities project as well as expertise and ability to teach in one or more of the following secondary areas: literary studies, media studies, professional writing, digital writing and rhetoric, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Transacting DH – Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Collaboration

From the CFP: In 2011, Tanya Clement and Dave Lester convened an NEH-supported conversation titled Off the Tracks, which led to the eventual publication of the Collaborators’ Bill of Rights. Prompted by this year’s presidential theme–Textual Transactions–this guaranteed panel supported by the Association for Computer in the Humanities (ACH) will address questions of “transaction” as […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Keystone DH 2018

From the CFP: We are excited to announce that this year’s Keystone DH will be held at Penn State University in State College. Now in its fourth year, Keystone DH is an annual conference and a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic. […]

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Job: Head of Preservation and Digitization, Washington University

From the ad: Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections Services Division, is responsible for the development and operation of a library-wide, comprehensive preservation and digitization program. Leads and manages all preservation/conservation and digitization efforts, including the management of general and special collection care and digitization activities, preservation/digitization lab and services, […]

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Job: Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Associate, Virginia Tech

From the ad: The postdoc will advance the partnership in the Digital Humanities between the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, University Libraries, and faculty and students across Virginia Tech. The postdoc is expected to assume a high visibility position advancing the digital humanities at the intersection of research, outreach, and instruction appropriate to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: “The Digital and Democracy” – Digital Scholarship Colloquium 2018

From the CFP: Join us for a rousing discussion of democracy and the digital at the fourth Digital Scholarship Colloquium hosted by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. We are now accepting proposals for papers, posters, panels, and/or demonstrations from scholars, students, librarians/archivists, technologists, non-profit researchers, and community organizers that interrogate the ways that […]

News, Resources

Resource: How to Scrape Reddit with Python

From the resource: Last month, Storybench editor Aleszu Bajak and I decided to explore user data on nootropics, the brain-boosting pills that have become popular for their productivity-enhancing properties. Many of the substances are also banned by at the Olympics, which is why we were able to pitch and publish the piece at Smithsonian magazine during the 2018 […]

News, Reports

Report: HathiTrust Research Center User Requirements Study White Paper

About the report: This paper presents findings from an investigation into trends and practices in humanities and social sciences research that incorporates text data mining. As affiliates of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), the purpose of our study was to illuminate researcher needs and expectations for text data, tools, and training for text mining in […]