Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
Renmin University of China
The Department of Digital Humanities, School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China is hiring an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. Please contact Dr. Zekun Yang in-person at the DH 2023 conference or by e-mail at zekunyang@ruc.edu.cn if you are interested!
Link:
http://sirm.ruc.edu.cn/
Humanities Data Scientist for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE)
NEH
NEH’s Humanities Data Scientist will support ODE’s goal of equitably fostering humanities in the US by evaluating grant programs and their impact against the national humanities landscape, and by reporting on the state of the humanities more generally.
Applicants should have experience evaluating research methods for soundness and biases, applying machine learning and/or statistical techniques to multifaceted and occasionally unstructured data, clearly reporting the results of sophisticated analyses to lay audiences, and empowering users to explore complex datasets through interactive visualizations and dashboards. Familiarity with humanities, cultural, educational, non-profit, and/or social scientific data, audiences, or practitioners is also essential. We especially welcome applicants with expertise in demographic and equity analyses and natural language processing techniques.
Potential candidates should address requirements in the job ad and self-assessment as directly as possible in their application materials.
The selectee may be hired at the GS-13 or GS-14 grade level based on their specialized experience. Although the job ad does not describe the position as remote, the selectee’s work location may be negotiable after selection. The annual salary range for the Washington, DC area is between $112,015 to $145,617 for the GS-13 level and $132,368 to $172,075 for the GS-14 level, but the locality salary rate may be adjusted based on the negotiated work location. All U.S. citizens are eligible to apply. Applications must be received by 11:59 pm on July 27th.
Job announcement and application: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/735706500
Link:
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/735706500
Junior Chair (full professor tenure track) in Computational Analysis of Written Cultures in Western Space (Middle Ages – first XXth c.)
École Nationale des Chartes - PSL Université
The École nationale des chartes - PSL is calling for applications for a Chaire Junior in "Computational Analysis of Written Cultures in Western Space (Middle Ages – first XXth c.". This is a tenure track position with a reduced teaching load leading to a full professor position in four years. The position will start on January 1st, 2024.
Candidates must have held a doctorate or PhD degree and have a well-established research record, including publications in areas relevant to the job profile and in top international journals.
The annual gross salary will be EUR 41,328 for the four years of the tenure period (salary negotiation possible).
The selected candidate will have a reduced teaching load (between 64h and 96h of directed working equivalent or between 42h and 64h of lectures, or any other equivalent combination). No additional courses or assignments may be carried out during this period, which must be mainly devoted to research.
See link for full description.
Link:
https://recrutement.psl.eu/en/junior-chaire-computational-analysis-written-cultures-western-space-middle-ages-first-xxth-c-ecole
PhD position Digital Legal History
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam together with Maastricht University have an opening! One does have to know Dutch.
Open until 12-7-2023
Link:
https://werkenbij.vu.nl/ad/promovendus-rechtsgeschiedenis/6ggjhn
Director of Digital Publishing
University of Virginia Press
(see URL for more info)
.Job Description
The University of Virginia Press (UVAP) seeks a technologically skilled, innovative, and visionary publishing professional to lead its digital publishing program. This full-time staff position reports to the Press Director.
The primary responsibility of this position is to manage all aspects of the Press's Rotunda digital imprint, including technical development, ongoing infrastructure operations (both hardware and software), acquisition of new content (in collaboration with colleagues), and supervision and/or creation of workflows for adding and updating content. Secondarily, the incumbent serves as manager, primary contact, and/or major contributor to non-Rotunda digital publications and technical infrastructure of the Press and supervises or performs IT work by liaising with university information technical services, and serves as one of two UVA Press designated Local Support Partners (LSPs)
Link:
https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Director-of-Digital-Publishing_R0049990?q=R0049990
Assistant Professors/Associate Professors/Professors/Chair Professors (on substantiation-track)
City University of Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is one of the world’s leading universities, known for innovation, creativity and research. We are now seeking exceptional scholars to join us as Assistant Professors/Associate Professors/Professors/Chair Professors (on substantiation-track) in all academic fields with special focuses on One Health, Digital Society, Smart City, Matter, Brain, and related interdisciplinary areas. Research fields of particular interest include, but not limited to:
Digital humanities
Link:
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/
Postdoc at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of computer and information science
University of Ljubljana
If you are interested in a two year Postoc in the area of Digital Humanities, we are happy to announce that the second SMASH call will be out soon (https://smash.ung.si/). SMASH is a MSCA COFUND mobility scheme that funds individual postdoc research fellowships in Slovenian research institutions with attractive financial support.
The postdoc would work in the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedia at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, on the use of unsupervised machine learning to bring historical documents into the digital age, which is a research topic we are pursuing with our colleagues at the Institute for Contemporary History. The second call will be out in July. For more information, please contact Matija Marolt (matija.marolt@fri.uni-lj.si).
Link:
https://smash.ung.si
Digital Humanities Specialist at Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
The Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis MO is seeking a full-time Digital Humanities Specialist.
The Digital Humanities Specialist works with faculty, staff, and students to develop and/or deploy software, data management, and training solutions in support of faculty research projects in the humanities and in support of the long-term goals of the Humanities Digital Workshop (HDW) in Arts & Sciences Computing. Projects encompass a wide range of academic disciplines, research questions, and research goals.
For more information, and to apply, please see the posting at WashU's job site. Visa sponsorship not possible at this time.
Link:
https://wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Digital-Humanities-Specialist---Arts---Sciences-Information-Technology_JR75848
Digital Collections Librarian
Indiana University Library
The Digital Collections Librarian will coordinate the development, curation, implementation, and assessment of digital collections, focusing on archival and special collections through active partnerships across multiple library departments and with campus and IU-wide partners. They will contribute to strategies, policies, procedures, best practices, processes, and system requirements that support long-term discovery, access, reuse, management, and preservation of digital collections by cultivating partnerships around discovering collections of distinction. With collection managers, the Digital Collections Librarian will seek and evaluate potential collections for digitization or processing (in the case of born-digital content), emphasizing highlighting underrepresented and otherwise hidden collections. This position reports to the Head of Digital Collections Services in the Library Technologies division of the IU Libraries. ... see job ad.
Link:
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/19475
Lecturer in Digital Liberal Arts and English Literature
University of Exeter
The curriculum at Exeter covers all periods from the Middle Ages to the contemporary moment with the “literary text” conceived in the broadest possible terms. Alongside literature and creative writing modules, the Department is home to our Liberal Arts degree programme, which emphasises interdisciplinarity while enabling students to select a specialism (or Major). Our staff also teach on workplace-facing undergraduate modules in Applied/Digital Humanities, Publishing and the Creative Industries.
THE ROLE
1. To work with colleagues across the university in the redesign and expansion of Exeter’s Liberal Arts provision (including the programme’s digital humanities offering), ensuring student satisfaction on the programme and securing intake from new student markets around the world.
2. To fulfil research, teaching and administration duties as a lecturer in Liberal Arts with a specialism in Literary Studies in English. The postholder will be expected to teach on the Liberal Arts programme and they will have oversight of personal tutoring on the programme in their role Director of Student Experience for Liberal Arts in their first year at Exeter. They will also be tasked with developing the digital humanities components within the expanded Liberal Arts degree programme while contributing to the English Literary Studies programmes at UG and PGT/PGR level. They will have a co-ordinating role in developing interdisciplinary pathways and contribution to Liberal Arts modules and options. They will also be expected to innovate, designing and refining new and existing offering to enhance the quality of the programme.
3. To extend the research profile of English Literature and Liberal Arts, attracting and supervising postdoctorate researchers and postgraduate research students.
For an informal and confidential discussion about the post, please contact Prof Vike Martina Plock.
Link:
https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=737133f130&WVID=3817591jNg
Chancellor’s Fellowships in Humanities Informatics – ECA
Edinburgh College of Art
UE08, £44,414 – £52,841 Per Annum
Edinburgh College of Art, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
35 hours p/w (Full-time)
Fixed term (5 years in duration, with a view review to possible open ended conversion thereafter)
ECA Chancellor’s Fellowships (x2 positions): Humanities Informatics, and Audio Machine Learning
Applications are sought by Edinburgh College of Art for a Chancellor’s Fellowship in Humanities Informatics: applied computing in the Arts and Humanities, designing data-led and data-rich approaches to research questions and data sources that place art, design, language, literature, history, and cultures at the heart of data science. The candidate will have a strong track record and the potential to make a major contribution to the University’s Data Driven Innovation programme, in the areas of research, teaching, and enterprise related to Digital Humanities areas. This post will be an appointment in Design Informatics, within the School of Design, within ECA. The role will contribute to the delivery of a new strategic area in Humanities Informatics within Design Informatics, and also contribute to the College’s priority research theme in Digital and Data. The Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics’ initial focus will be on consolidating their research careers, including through developing research projects and grant applications, attracting external PhD funding, publications, and knowledge exchange and outreach activities.
(See more on the website…)
Link:
https://www.designinformatics.org/news/new-job-posting-cf-humanities-informatics/
Project Management Officer / Community Outreach Officer.
OPERAS
OPERAS, research Infrastructure for scholarly communication is looking for Project Management Officer or Service Marketing and Community Outreach Officer.
Check out the full details at OPERAS website: https://operas-eu.org/calls-and-job-opportunities/
Link:
https://operas-eu.org/calls-and-job-opportunities/
CLARIN is looking for a student assistant!
CLARIN
CLARIN is looking to hire a student assistant (on average 0,3 - 0,4 FTE depending on availability) during the period of August-November 2023, with a possible extension after this period. It is a prerequisite for this position to be available from 15-18 October for onsite support in Leuven.
The tasks will focus primarily on the organisation of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 (16-18 October), to be held in Leuven, Belgium.
This position will be of particular interest to students with an academic background with digital humanities, language study, corpus linguistics and natural language processing.
Link:
https://www.clarin.eu/news/clarin-eric-looking-student-assistant-0
