Category: Jobs + Fellowships

Fellowship Manager, Data & Society

Fellowship Manager [Open until Filled]

Data & Society Research Institute is seeking a Fellowship Manager to enhance, experiment with, and take in new directions Data & Society’s fellowship program. This role is a half-time, 15-month commitment, with room to grow to full time and extend beyond the initial period. The position is based out of our New York City office, and starts immediately.

Responsibilities include:

  • Oversight, program development, and management of the 2017-18 class of fellows.
  • Planning and leading the 2018-19 call (or calls) for fellows, from designing the call to the selection process to the announcement in the spring of 2018.
  • Refining and experimenting with new approaches to institutional rotation at D&S, with the goal of broadening the reach (geographically, topically, professionally, career stage-wise) beyond the academic calendar frame.
  • Collaborating closely with other D&S teams, particularly research, programs, and special projects, to explore how institutional rotation programs complement and enhance the ongoing work of the organization.
  • Exploring the value/costs of co-fellowships with other organizations or companies.
  • Developing a strategy for internationalizing institutional rotation, taking into account costs, visa issues, duration of engagement, and language barriers.

Qualifications:

  • 5-7 years of successive program and/or product management experience;
  • Experience with mentorship of mid-career professionals in creative and knowledge production;
  • Experience with successful program development;
  • Experience with strategic program development;
  • Phenomenal communication and people skills.

To apply, please submit the following to jobs@datasociety.net:

  1. A cover letter explaining your interest in this role and your experience with similar program development and mentorship roles.
(Please also include the names, affiliations, and email addresses of two references)
  1. Your resume/CV.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please feel free to contact us at jobs@datasociety.net should you have any questions about the position. Questions about the opportunity or process will not reflect negatively on your application.

EdTech Winter School

EdTech Winter School: Emerging trends and new horizons in the study of education and technology

Ceibal Foundation is organizing the 1st EdTech Winter School to take place in Uruguay, called “Emerging trends and new horizons in the study of education and technology”. The event will gather postgraduate students and early career academics from the main higher educational institutions in the country and the Latin American region. The Winter School is organized in partnership with ANII (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación), Departamento de Comunicación and Departamento de Educación (Universidad Católica del Uruguay), Universidad ORT, FLACSO Uruguay, Universidad de Montevideo and Facultad de Ingeniería (Universidad de la República).It aims to offer a stimulating learning environment for participants to present and discuss key challenges, research trends and opportunities, to foresee new horizons in education, learning and teaching practices enhanced by digital technologies.

OBJECTIVES

The Winter School will offer an exciting opportunity for postgraduate students and early career faculties to present and discuss relevant EdTech policies and research for studying the future of education and technology, innovation and inclusion in the coming decade.

Winter School participants will also be invited to:

a) Collaborate in a special publication that will be prepared, where attendees will disseminate the results of their studies;

b) Explore future collaborations in areas of common interest;

c) Become a Ceibal Foundation’s affiliate and participate in collective books publications, dissemination of academic works in the Institutional Repository of Ceibal Foundation, among other scientific initiatives.

PROGRAMME (4 days +1 open day)

3rd July until the 6th July 2017. Open day – 7th July 2017

During a week of academic and social activities, candidates are expected to gain valuable knowledge, skills and meaningful perspectives in the fields of EdTech, innovation and inclusion. The official language of the event will be English. The programme will combine keynote lectures, training and participating in joint project-based learning.

19th May 2017 – Deadline for submitting applications

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital, Asia

Universiteit Leiden
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Asia
Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Asia.

Key responsibilities

  • coordinate international grant proposals for the development of Digital Humanities research in Asian languages;
  • develop a master’s programme in digital Asian cultural studies at Leiden University;
  • undertake research in the area of Asian digital humanities or cultural studies.

The postdoctoral fellow will be funded by the Critical Approaches to New Asian Media Ecologies (CANAME) project (a collaboration of professor Hilde De Weerdt, dr. Bart Barendregt, and dr. Florian Schneider) and funded by the Leiden University Asian Modernities and Traditions cluster. He/She will work with staff in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (e.g., De Weerdt, Schneider), the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (e.g., Cha, Vierthaler), the Institute for Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology (e.g., Barendregt), and international collaborators (e.g., the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) to develop and coordinate teaching and research in Asian digital humanities.

Selection Criteria:

  • Ph.D. in humanities, social sciences, or computer science field relevant to the analysis of digital media in Asia or in Asian languages (in hand before September 1, 2017);
  • fluency in English (speaking and writing);
  • strong communication and project management skills;
  • experience in grant proposal writing;
  • familiarity with or strong interest in digital research infrastructures;
  • experience or strong interest in teaching digital humanities.

Applications

  • must be received no later than 10 May 2017
  • should be in English, and be submitted vacatureslias@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
  • must include a single PDF document named ‘FAMILY NAME – Given name – vacancy number and in this order: 1) letter of motivation  2) resume.

Queries can be directed to professor Hilde De Weerdt: h.g.d.g.de.weerdt@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

ADHO Communications Fellowship

2017-18 ADHO Communications Fellowships

Join our team! The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its 2017-18 Communications Fellowship.

Two positions will be available. The fellowships will extend from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. It is well suited for graduate students, young scholars, and academic professionals who wish to develop deeper knowledge of digital humanities and its global communities, contribute to an important digital humanities professional organization, and gain professional experience in social media and communications.

Responsibilities:

  • working on a small team to write news releases, blog posts, and announcements about ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community
  • monitor and update ADHO’s social media presence
  • maintain its website
  • help to develop and implement ADHO’s outreach strategy
  • perform other communications-related responsibilities
  • anticipate spending approximately 3-4 hours per week on the position.

Desired skills and qualifications include:

  • working knowledge of more than one language
  • excellent written communication skills
  • ability to work with minimal supervision
  • attention to detail
  • some knowledge of digital humanities communities and current discourses
  • some knowledge of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook
  • experience creating and publishing content using Drupal, WordPress, or another web content management system
  • skills in graphic design and multimedia editing

Application Deadline is May 31, 2017

To Apply: submit the following to Hannah Jacobs, chair of ADHO’s communications committee: communications@digitalhumanities.org

  1. CV or résumé
  2. brief writing sample
  3. three letters of reference
  4. cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for the position

Senior Developer, University of Virginia

The University of Virginia Library is the hub of a lively and growing community of practice in technology and the humanities, arts, and social sciences. As part of that community, the Scholars’ Lab has risen to international pre-eminence as a library-based center for digital humanities. The Scholars’ Lab collaborates with faculty, librarians, and students on a range of projects and tools, including spatial humanities, data visualization, text analysis, digital archiving, 3D modeling, and experimental humanities. Our Praxis Program and Digital Humanities Fellowships are both models for graduate education in Digital Humanities. Further, the Library and the Scholars’ Lab are committed to diversity and safe spaces, and we particularly focus our speaker series and practice on accessibility and social justice in all senses. We welcome curious, critical, and compassionate professionals with integrity and a strong work ethic, and who possess a keen and deep understanding of what it takes to continuously improve and maintain research projects within a major academic research library.

Responsibilities:

  • consult with faculty and students to advance research projects and training
  • evaluate scholarly needs and define project goals for research projects
  • provide input on appropriate deliverables and reasonable schedules for completion
  • write, test, and debug original software code for applications that enable scholars and library users to collect, manage, produce, manipulate, or analyze digital information resources
  • modify existing applications to improve their functioning or achieve broader and more effective use and engage with new technologies to help researchers find their use and interest for research.

Qualifications, Required:

  • Graduate degree or equivalent experience
  • Up to 4 years of experience with software development, application development, or systems administration
  • Experience with relational database systems, including Postgresql and MySQL
  • Experience with a number of programming languages, including PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, SQL, JavaScript,
    and shell
  • Experience with version control, including Git and Subversion
  • Systems: *nix
  • Ability to scope and implement software in diverse environments
  • Ability to communicate effectively with scholars and fellow developers
  • Ability to encourage and develop a community of users and developers

Preferred:

  • Graduate degree or equivalent experience in the humanities or social sciences
  • Experience with data collections, analysis, visualization, and interpretation
  • Experience with a variety of text analysis or image analysis methods and tools
  • Familiarity with a variety of application frameworks, including Rails, Django, and Zend
  • Experience with TEI, XML, Solr, Cocoon, Tomcat

To Apply: go to the University of Virginia online employment website. Search posting number 0620730, complete the application, and attach a cover letter and resume with contact information for three professional references.

For assistance with this process contact Charlotte Albright, Senior Human Resources Generalist, at (434) 243-3509.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Assistant Professor – Interactive Media & Game Design, SUNY Polytechnic

SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) is New York’s globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem. As the world’s most advanced, university-driven research enterprise, SUNY Poly is dedicated to the goal of building a diverse and inclusive teaching, research, and working environment. Potential applicants who share this goal, especially underrepresented minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Department of Communication and Humanities at SUNY Polytechnic Institute invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interactive Media & Game Design (IMGD) to start in August 2017.

Responsibilities:

  • apply interactive media in research and/or professional practice, teaching courses in UI and UX design, virtual and augmented reality, instructional design, interactive audio, and/or 2D and 3D digital media
  • establish a robust research agenda, and shape our new IMGD program and to help it grow into new, state-of-the-art facilities that will be available for the Fall 2017 semester

Minimum Qualifications:

  • MFA or other suitable graduate-level degree in a relevant field
  • demonstrated scholarly interests and/or creative practice involving the arts, design, and technologies
  • demonstrated commitments to supporting and cultivating diversity in the university and/or interactive media professional environments
  • PhD in a relevant field preferred.

To Apply: submit the following via the online application

  • C.V.
  • letter of application
  • statement of teaching philosophy
  • statement of research interests and plans
  • contact information for three work-related references
  • SUNY Polytechnic employment application
  • Applicants must address in their applications their abilities to work with a culturally diverse population.

Closing date for receipt of applications: April 14, 2017

 

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, SUNY Polytechnic Institute will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, gender identification, genetic information, familial status, marital status, pregnancy, status as a domestic violence victim, criminal conviction, disability, military status, disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces Service Medal veteran, active duty or wartime campaign badge veteran, or other characteristic as protected by law.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities, University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is seeking permanent, full time Research Fellow to begin 1st July 2017.

At Exeter, we integrate digital methods and practices into the heart of our Humanities research. We are fascinated by the fresh research questions, interdisciplinary opportunities and diverse new fields of study catalysed by digital research, and we host an expanding range of projects in this specialism. Above all, Digital Humanities enables us to extend research enquiries in the Humanities, to formulate new questions, to forge productive collaborations across disciplines and to deliver outputs and impacts, training and teaching, that are more accessible and more widely understood than ever before. Increased investment by the University has led to the creation of an exciting new laboratory and research space due to open in June 2017.

We are looking for a research leader with an international reputation to shape and direct the strategic development of digital humanities at Exeter. Applicants will be instinctive innovators in this fast-expanding research area with a proven record of excellence in funded projects and field-leading publications. In addition to an outstanding research portfolio, you must be a skilled and committed teacher with a vision for the integration of digital approaches and applications in the student experience. You should also have an established profile in the appropriate professional networks and organisations and a demonstrable capacity to develop collaborations with a variety of non-HE partners.

The post-holder will be based at Exeter’s Streatham campus in one of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics and Ancient History, Drama, English, Film Studies, History, Modern Languages and Theology and Religion.

FIND FULL POSTING HERE

DEADLINE – APRIL 27, 2017

For further information please contact Professor James Clark, Associate Dean for Research in Humanities and Chair of the College’s Digital Humanities Strategy Group, email: j.g.clark@exeter.ac.uk or telephone: (01392) 725684.

 

Department of Computer Science Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science at Amherst College invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of visiting assistant professor, beginning in July 2017.  This is a one year appointment, with possible renewal for two additional years.
  • The teaching responsibility is two courses per semester.
  • The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in hand or have fulfilled all requirements for the degree by the start of the appointment.
  • We seek a colleague who is committed to excellence in undergraduate computer science education and who is comfortable teaching courses in a variety of areas.
  • Apply Online with:
    1. cover letter
    2. curriculum vitae
    3. three confidential letters of recommendation
    4. brief teaching statement, which should include a description of their teaching experience and a discussion of what courses they feel prepared to teach.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. 

For questions, contact the department chair, Professor John Rager, jer@cs.amherst.edu.

Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The College is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff. 

Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is seeking a full time, permanent Professor in Digital Humanities to start 1st September 2017.

At Exeter, we integrate digital methods and practices into the heart of our Humanities research. We are fascinated by the fresh research questions, interdisciplinary opportunities and diverse new fields of study catalysed by digital research, and we host an expanding range of projects in this specialism. Above all, Digital Humanities enables us to extend research enquiries in the Humanities, to formulate new questions, to forge productive collaborations across disciplines and to deliver outputs and impacts, training and teaching, that are more accessible and more widely understood than ever before. Increased investment by the University has led to the creation of an exciting new laboratory and research space due to open in June 2017.

We are looking for a leading figure with a strong international reputation to lead and shape the strategic direction of digital humanities at Exeter. Applicants will be innovative researchers with a strong track record of research funding and international quality publications. In addition to an outstanding research portfolio, you must have a distinguished track record in teaching, should be innovative in your approaches to teaching, and should demonstrate leadership in the field through participation in professional bodies and links with relevant companies and organisations.

The post-holder will be based at our Streatham campus in one of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics and Ancient History, Drama, English, Film Studies, History, Modern Languages and Theology and Religion.

FIND FULL POSTING HERE

DEADLINE – APRIL 27, 2017

Applicants are encouraged to contact the PVC of the College, Prof Andrew Thorpe (tel: 01392 724396 or email: A.J.Thorpe@exeter.ac.uk) to discuss the post further.

Digital and Computational Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College, in support of its Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) Initiative, invites applications for a Digital and Computational Studies Postdoctoral Fellow starting Fall 2017. The appointment will be for two years with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. The ideal candidate may come from any discipline and will have a demonstrated commitment to integrating digital and/or computational methodologies in their scholarship and instruction. Candidates whose research focuses on an aspect of the relationship of digital technologies with hermeneutics, history, education, ethics, the environment, or social practice are especially encouraged to apply.

The rising importance of digital and computational methods is transforming higher education and, in particular, the traditional view of the liberal arts. The liberal arts, broadly speaking, also have the power—perhaps the responsibility—to participate in and shape the development, use, and interpretative capabilities of these tools. Bowdoin has a vibrant DCS community working together to integrate new technologies and forms of creative expression and knowledge production into our curriculum and our scholarship. The DCS steering committee includes faculty from Art History, Chemistry, Computer Science, Digital Humanities, Earth and Oceanographic Sciences, English, Government, Mathematics, and Romance Languages. We have established a thriving Digital Humanities course cluster, and staff from the library, academic technology and IT support courses and projects in collections management and film studies, digital mapping and literary analysis, social media analysis, text analysis with high performance computing, and scientific computation, to name a few.

Responsibilities:

The Digital and Computational Studies Fellow will be both a resource and a catalyst for broadening these efforts.

  • Teach one course per semester; typically one introductory level course, which may include co-teaching, plus one DCS topics course each year, possibly cross-listed in another discipline. Preference for teaching that integrates at least two of the following: text mining (in Python or R), digital mapping, network analysis, data visualization, agent-based modeling, or digital exhibit and archive development.
  • Join the DCS program committee to help craft the growing program in DCS and co-mentor the DCS student community, including advising independent studies.
  • Ability to work across disciplines and actively reach out to colleagues in order to develop new courses that will be housed in departments outside DCS.

Qualifications:

  • completed Ph.D. by June 30, 2017 (provide documentation from their home institution confirming this schedule), and no earlier than January 1, 2014.

To Apply:

  • Complete an online application profile and include:
    • cover letter discussing experience and plans for incorporating computation into their scholarship and teaching
    • short course descriptions of one or two DCS courses the candidate would like to teach or help develop
    • curriculum vitae
    • names and contact information for three references who have agreed to provide letters of recommendation on request.

Review of applications will begin on April 20, and continue until the position is filled.

 

Bowdoin College is committed to equality and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural and ethnic diversity of our college. Bowdoin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability status in employment, or in our education programs.