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        Date: 2022-10-13 18:35:17+00:00
        From: Matthew Thomas Miller <mtmiller@UMD.EDU>
        Subject: New Position Announcement! Call for Applications


Dear Colleagues,

The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
<https://sllc.umd.edu/fields/persian> at the University of Maryland is
excited to announce a call for applications for an Assistant Research
Professor to serve as the Assistant Director of a 3-year, Mellon
Foundation-funded Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR
Catalyst Project Phase II (AOCP Phase II)
<https://arhu.umd.edu/news/mellon-grant-funds-continuation-islamicate-text-
digitization-project>.

The full description of the job is here
<https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/100180> and abbreviated below.

Preference will be given to applicants with expertise in TEI and DH
project management experience.

Please contact me with any questions.

     The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages,
     Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park,
     seeks to hire an Assistant Research Professor to serve as the
     Assistant Director of a 3-year, Mellon Foundation-funded Open
     Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project Phase
     II (AOCP Phase II). This individual will be a scholar practitioner
     of digital humanities who will provide operational and intellectual
     leadership to the Open Islamicate texts Initiative (Open ITI) and
     Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (AOCP) Phase II. The initial
     12-month appointment period, beginning preferably in January 2023
     but possibly later, with a salary of $80,000 (plus benefits, as
     described here:

     https://uhr.umd.edu/benefits/ <https://uhr.umd.edu/benefits/>), will
     be renewable across two additional years.

     The Assistant Director will work closely with Principal Investigator
     (PI) Matthew Thomas Miller on ensuring smooth implementation of the
     AOCP Phase II plan at an operational level. In this leadership role,
     they will also function as a bridge to the broader digital
     humanities community and help cultivate AOCP Phase II’s
     relationships with other projects.

     Applicants with a PhD in humanities, social sciences, or
     library/information sciences who have extensive experience in
     Digital Humanities will be preferred. All applicants must have
     demonstrated capacity to co-lead projects and programming.
     Applicants with expertise in text encoding will be especially
     welcomed, as they will be collaborating on developing Handwritten
     Text Recognition workflows and OpenITI mARkdown/TEI adaptations for
     manuscripts and digital text dissemination.


Best,
Matt
_______________________________________

Matthew Thomas Miller, Ph.D. (Pronouns: He, Him, His
<https://lgbt.umd.edu/good-practices-names-and-pronouns>)
Assistant Professor, Persian Literature & Digital Humanities, Roshan
Institute for Persian Studies <https://sllc.umd.edu/persian>
Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD)
<http://persdig.umd.edu/>



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