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The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is a state agency and membership organization that is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.  The KHS mission is to educate and engage the public through Kentucky history in order to confront the challenges of the future.

KHS is seeking an assistant editor to join the professional staff of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition.  This is a federally-funded, time-limited position, made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The assistant editor will work directly with the project’s director and staff in Frankfort, as well as conduct independent research trips to locate, control, and scan documents held in repositories across the nation. The assistant editor will be responsible for transcription, markup, proofing, fact-checking, and research for annotation, and will share responsibility with the project‘s director for overall editorial consistency of the edition.

The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWG -K) is a multi-year documentary-editing project dedicated to locating, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing documents associated with all five of the state’s Civil War governors, including the three Union governors, Beriah Magoffin (1859-62), James F. Robinson (1862-63), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-67), and the two provisional Confederate governors, George W. Johnson (1861-62) and Richard Hawes (1862-65). This edition will focus on the period between November 1860, the date of Lincoln’s election as president, and the end of December 1865, roughly corresponding with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which ended slavery.

Each of these national milestones signaled a sea change in Kentucky’s political and social order.  Groundbreaking in its conceptualization, CWG-K will provide new ways to look at the society of this era. CWG-K is endorsed by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. To learn more about the digital edition, go tocivilwargovernors.org.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

·         M.A. in history; and

·         Valid driver’s license.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

·         A Ph.D. with research specialization in 19th century U.S. history.

·         Must be detail-oriented and possess excellent communication skills.

·         Working knowledge of or experience with documentary editing or digital humanities.

·         Proficiency with XML markup, particularly TEI encoding.

Starting monthly salary is $3,084.06.  Benefits include paid health and life insurance, vacation and sick leave, holiday pay, state retirement and optional deferred compensation plan.  This is a full-time position located in Frankfort KY.

To apply, e-mail complete dossier, including cover letter, c.v. or resume, transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and a short (20-30 printed page) writing sample (all files in MS-Word or PDF format), to khs.hr@ky.gov. No phone calls please.

Application deadline is May 1, 2015. Anticipated start date is June 16, 2015.Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D

To learn more about the Kentucky Historical Society, go tohttp://history.ky.gov.

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor starting September 1, 2015. This is a one-year nontenure track appointment that is renewable for an additional two years, depending upon department need and satisfactory performance.

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication serves over 780 undergraduate majors and offers MA and PhD programs of study. The Department emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship and encourages applications from a broad range of methodological perspectives. For more information please see: steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc.

NYU is a large, private university located in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. For further information, visit www.nyu.edu.

Qualifications
The position is open to recent PhDs and doctoral candidates who will have completed their degrees by September 2015. Teaching experience is required.

Responsibilities 
The position will involve teaching three undergraduate courses each semester. NYU is  looking for someone who can teach a broad range of courses in media, culture, and technology, including but not limited to the study of consumer culture, social networking, mobile media, and advertising. The position will have no service obligations, but the successful candidate will be expected to be an active teacher engaged in the intellectual life of the department.

Applications
Please apply via e-mail with a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching experience, and a writing sample of 25 pp. or less. Include the names of 3 references and their e-mail addresses in your letter of application (recommendation letters are not required at this point). Send your materials as attachments to mccnyusearch@gmail.com.

NYU is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment and strongly encourages applications from historically underrepresented groups.

Review of applications will begin April 25 and will continue until the position is filled. Further information about the position can be obtained from: Lisa Gitelman, Chair, Department of Media, Culture and Communication

To apply, please visit the CUNYFirst website. Application materials must be submitted online by May 21, 2015.

The Graduate Center (GC) defines the standard of contemporary graduate education: rigorous academic training and globally significant research. lt is recognized for outstanding scholarship across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and is integral to the intellectual and cultural vitality of New York City. Through its extensive public programs, The Graduate Center hosts a wide range of events – lectures, conferences, book discussions, art exhibits, concerts, and dance and theater that enrich and inform.

The Graduate Center has been heavily engaged in digital humanities work. The school builds community platforms for scholarly engagement, visualizes cultural patterns in social media, explores innovative ways to access digital humanities tools, collaborates with others to create new forms of the book, hosts a digital humanities speaker series, encourages doctoral students to integrate technology and pedagogy, rethinks networked teaching and learning, sponsors innovative student projects, and supports digital fellows who work on and foster a range of exciting projects.

Based in the Provost’s Office and reporting to the Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, the Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives will join an institution with strong support for digital work and will be part of an enthusiastic and collaborative community of faculty members, graduate students, and staff working together to explore new digital humanities projects and opportunities.

Duties include but are not limited to:

– Directs the preparation and submission of 2-3 new grant proposals per year, and to maintain the management of successfully funded projects;

– Directs administration of the GC Digital Praxis Seminar, which introduces new doctoral and master’s students at the GC to digital humanities texts, projects, and practices;

– Works with the GC Digital Fellows Program and the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants program, directing the arrangement of workshops and training sessions to help students improve their skills;

– Manages the GC Digital Scholarship Lab and related equipment;

– Serves as a liaison to academic programs, centers, and institutes partnered with GC Digital Initiatives;

– Directs initiatives associated with digital projects that are part of the Graduate Center’s Performance Management Process.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s Degree and eight years’ relevant experience required.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
A preferred candidate should have:
– Extensive experience building and engaging communities around digital projects
– Experience working in a higher education institution
– Ph.D. degree in area(s) within the humanities and social sciences
– Past success working collaboratively in interdisciplinary environments
– Extensive project management experience
– Experience with a technical area of digital humanities, such as data visualization, text analysis, digital pedagogy, geospatial humanities, data curation, network analysis, or scholarly communication
– In depth familiarity with the most recent scholarship in the digital humanities
– Extensive experience with grant writing and management including financial and activity reporting
– Ability to monitor grants, budget, and expenditures to ensure that targets are met
– Two years of supervisory experience including handling personnel and recruitment actions
– A commitment to open-source code, open-access scholarship, and public education

COMPENSATION
Commensurate with experience and qualifications

BENEFITS
CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification. Employees are also offered pension and Tax-Deferred Savings Plans. Part-time employees must meet a weekly or semester work hour criteria to be eligible for health benefits. Health benefits are also extended to retirees who meet the eligibility criteria.

HOW TO APPLY
Please apply by visiting this link on CUNYFirst

Click on “Apply Now” which will bring you to the registration screen. If you are a new user, you must register to apply. If you already have a user ID, please use your existing ID to apply. Make sure to upload a cover letter, resume, and 3 professional references (name, title, organization, and contact information) by the closing date, May 21, 2015.

OR

Go to http://cuny.jobs/ and search for Job ID 12661. Follow the directions above and send all materials in by by the closing date, May 21, 2015.