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Austrian Academy Corpus
Location: Vienna, Austria
Position: Corpus Researcher
Requirements: a degree (preferably PhD) in computer science, informatics, corpus linguistics, general linguistics or any other discipline in the humanities with a research focus on IT related issues and has strong programming skills (preferably C++, Delphi and/or scripting languages).
Closing Date: Open until filled.
Description: Support the AAC working group in their text technology projects. He/she will be investigating innovative methods in exploiting middle to large sized text corpora (of predominantly German language texts). Acting as a member of a group of scholars engaged in corpus research, a readiness to communicate across boundaries of disciplines as well as an eagerness to explore new IT methods and approaches applying them to literary and cultural studies, linguistics, history etc. are a prerequisite for the job. The candidate’s responsibilities will include both encoding and programming tasks, documenting his/her work in form of regular publications either as a single or as a co-author.
More Information: ACH Jobs, aac@oeaw.ac.at
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Location: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Position: CLCWeb Editorial Assistant
Requirements: Advanced graduate or junior faculty standing
Closing Date: Not Posted.
Description: Work with the editor in the processes of production of all materials published in the journal; editorial assistants receive on-going training and guidance from the editor in their work; work with the journal affords editorial assistants with knowledge and expertise in the processes of editing, new media scholarship and technology, the publishing industry, methods and new knowledge management of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences and in the acquiring of knowledge in the current state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
More Information: ACH Jobs, clcweb@purdue.edu
Duke University
Location: Durham, NC
Position: HASTAC Program Coordinator
Requirements: BA or BS, 1 yr exp admin support, budget/acct responsibilities.
Closing Date: 10 June 2009
Description: 40 hr/week, full benefits. Coordinating budget, correspondence, and activities for the Franklin Humanities Institute Professor, HASTAC, and the Digital Media and Learning Competition.
For More Information: hr.duke.edu, click “Jobs,” and search by Requisition #400303348
Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Atlanta, GA
Position: Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Requirements: Recent Ph.D. in English Lit, Film Studies, Critical Theory, Comp/Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Tech Communication
Closing Date: Yearly. Committee begins reviewing apps each January.
Description: The Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship offers an opportunity for new scholars to develop innovative teaching and scholarship in communication. Current Brittain Fellows have recently received their Ph.D. from more than twenty universities around the world. Their degrees represent diverse disciplines: literature, communication, rhetoric, composition, technical and business communication, creative writing, film studies, performance studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and related fields. However, common interests in digital pedagogy and the cultural studies of science and technology characterize the program.
More Information: http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/writingcomm/brittain/
McMaster University
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Position: one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC), under the supervision of Dr. Stéfan Sinclair from Communications Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University.
Closing date: July 31, 2009
Requirements: full Curriculum Vitae, letters from two referees and a cover letter highlighting their prior achievements and a brief summary of their statement of their interest and experience in this area.
Description: The focus of the research will be large-scale, on-demand text analysis, and especially the development of HPC modules that can operate in a web-based context. McMaster University is internationally recognized as a leader in digital humanities scholarship and tool development.
National Science Foundation
Location: Various
Position: Science, Technology, and Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
Requirements: STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society.
Closing Date: 1 Aug, 1 Feb Annually.
Description: STS has four components:
1. Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS),
2. History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS),
3. Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS),
4. Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area. STS encourages the submission of hybrid proposals that strive to integrate research involving two or more of these core areas.
More Information: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324
Society for the History of Techonology
Location: Various.
Position: Hindle Fellow
Requirements: Doctorate in the history of technology or a related field, normally awarded within the preceding four years, or expect to have graduated by the time of the award.
Closing Date: 15 Apr
Description: The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology honors the contribution of Brooke Hindle to the work of the Society for the History of Technology and is made possible thanks to the generosity of his family. The fellowship is for $10,000 and may be used, as further detailed below, for any purpose connected with research or writing in the history of technology for a period of not less than four months during the year following the award.
More Information: http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/hindle.html
Stanford University
Location: Stanford, CA
Position: Digital Humanities Specialist
Requirements: Degree (Masters preferred) in a humanities discipline and/or computer science, min 5 yrs exp using technology in Humanities scholarship
Closing Date: Not Posted. (Listing posted 11 May 2009)
Description: The successful candidate must have a deep understanding of scholarship in the humanities. S/he will work consult with faculty on scholarly projects to identify technical approaches, processes and tools; evaluate and integrate existing software tools for use in the Humanities, as well as design and implement new applications.
More Information: http://jobs.stanford.edu/, job #32686
Umeå University
Location: Umeå, Sweden
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at HUMlab
Requirements: PhD in a humanities discipline from a non-Swedish university
Closing Date: 14 Jun 2009
Description: Up to five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab. The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of “religion and the digital”, “digital journalism”, “architecture and the digital”, “next generation digital humanities tools” and/or “visualization in the digital humanities”.
More Information: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs
University College London
Location: London, UK
Position: Research Assistant in the use of Virtual Research Environments and Social Networking applications
Requirements: Postgraduate degree in relevant subject area
Closing Date: 10 Jun 2009
Description: Work on LinkSphere: a joint research project to develop a virtual research environment which will allow cross-repository searching across various digital collections and archives, producing a useful user interface to various disparate digital collections.
More Information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/
University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Position: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
Requirements: Untenured scholar in the humanities who received or will receive Ph.D. between Dec 2001 and Dec 2009
Closing Date: 15 Oct 2009
Description: Topic: “Virtuality.” During their year in residence, Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows will have the opportunity to pursue their own research. That research must relate to Virtuality, the Forum’s topic of study for 2010–11. Fellows must also participate in the weekly Mellon Research Seminar of the Penn Humanities Forum (Tuesdays, 12:00–2:00), and present their research at one of those seminars.
More Information: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellon_cfa.shtml
University of Victoria
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, focus on Information Management
Requirements: Skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, corpora, datastores, and computational analysis tools, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources.
Closing Date: Applications accepted until position filled.
Description: The postdoctoral fellow will work with production-focused and experimental corpora, datastores, and analytical technologies, collaborating with those associated with INKE’s information management team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK.
More Information: position re-opened for 2009; job ad online here
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book
Requirements: Skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools.
Closing Date: Applications accepted until position filled.
Description: The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of historical textual features, collaborating with those associated with INKE’s textual studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK.
More Information: http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/05/30/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-history-and-future-of-the-book-2009-10/