Jobs: postdoc at Emory
Leif Isaksen
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:06:41 -0500
From: Brian Croxall <b.cr...@gmail.com>
Subject: Two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Digital Humanities
Fellowship at Emory'sDiSC [Atlanta]
The Emory University Libraries invites applications for a two-year
postdoctoral fellow to work in the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC;
http://web.library.emory.edu/disc), a new center for digital scholarship
based in Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. The position is
funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Responsibilities
The Mellon postdoctoral fellow will collaborate on digital humanities
projects in partnership with librarians, faculty members, and graduate
students. He/she will serve as project researcher, content administrator,
editorial associate, reviewer, and technologist. The Fellow will be exposed
to changing practices, tools, and products of digital scholarship and will
gain training in project development, project management, developmental
editing, online presentation, and digital archiving.
Qualifications
Required: Experience with digital scholarship projects and initiatives,
advanced humanities research experience, technology skills, subject
expertise, and strong written and verbal communication skills. Applicants
must have successfully defended the dissertation or be on track to defend
by the end of Summer 2012.
Experience with some or all of the following is desired:
- Wordpress, Omeka or other CMS
- data visualization tools and methods
- programming (Python, Ruby etc.)
- text-mining tools and methods
- GIS tools and methods
Applicants should submit the following:
- A current CV
- A cover letter which describes
- why he/she wants to work in DiSC;
- how this position fits in to his/her overall professional goals; and
- how he/she uses technology in their academic work OR examples of
digital scholarship he/she admires and why.
Send materials and contact information for three references to: Linda
Nodine, Library Human Resources, via email to nec...@emory.edu. (Full
mailing address is: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta,
GA 30322-2870.) Application review begins March 1, 2012. Phone interviews
will take place in mid-March with campus interviews at the end of the
month. The position could start as early as late April 2012 but will start
no later than the end of August 2012.
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