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Job: Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist, NYU Libraries

From the ad: Reporting jointly to the NYU Press and the NYU Libraries, the Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist develops and manages a variety of digital services and projects ranging from advising and assisting NYU faculty and advanced graduate students in electronic dissemination of their scholarly work to the development of innovative publishing initiatives, such as […]

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Job: Assistant Professor of Convergent Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

From the ad: The College of Media invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Convergent Media, including the interaction between the old and new media systems and platforms. Successful candidates should demonstrate an innovative research and teaching agenda. Appointments will be made on a tenure-track, 9-month academic year basis in one of the College’s […]

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Job: Digital Publishing Lead, George Mason University Libraries

From the ad: George Mason University Libraries is seeking a dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented individual to lead efforts in management of digital publishing platforms and tools for Mason Publishing and the George Mason University Press. Reporting to the director of Mason Publishing/GMU Press, the digital publishing lead will interact with faculty, students, and library staff […]

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Job: Assistant Professor of English in Digital Humanities/Big Data, Texas Christian University

From the ad: The English Department at TCU, which offers Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. degrees within a teacher-scholar model, invites applications for a tenure-track position inCandidates who combine digital humanities (e.g., distant reading, big data analysis, GIS) with secondary expertise in American literature or Global literature are especially welcome. We seek scholars with a developed […]

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Job: Assistant or Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University

From the ad: This position is responsible for supervising a staff of six developers, designers, project managers and four graduate research assistants, and initiating and leading grant-funded projects such as digital collections and exhibits, open-source software, and training in digital literacy and skills. The incumbent collaborates with the other senior staff to manage the center, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Visualizing Social Networks -Palladio and the Encyclopédistes

From the post: There are numerous digital tools for studying networks that can be of use to humanists. One such tool is Palladio, a digital humanities package developed in the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford University.[1] Palladio lends itself to qualitative studies because the visualizations that it produces (maps, network diagrams, and tables) are […]

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Resource: The Newberry Opens Collection of 30,000 French Revolution Pamphlets to Digital Scholarship

From the post: Over the past year and a half, the Newberry has digitized more than 30,000 French Revolution pamphlets representing contemporary commentators’ views on citizenship, royal execution, and the separation of church and state. Quickly printed and distributed in response to the latest political upheavals, the pamphlets offer a window into how the French […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital History and Historical Argumentation

Is argumentation in digital history different? how is it the same? Argumentation in digital history is not innately different from argumentation found in other forms of history. If you want to reach historians, write for historians. The signposting of historiography and/or historical context helps other historians to understand where your argument fits in the larger […]