Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 36, No. 271. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org [1] From: Matthew Thomas Miller <mtmiller@umd.edu> Subject: Re: Position Announcement: Call for Applications (71) [2] From: Elspeth Brown <elspeth.brown@utoronto.ca> Subject: Job Opening (1 YR): Senior Research Associate, University of Toronto (27) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 2022-11-28 15:30:28+00:00 From: Matthew Thomas Miller <mtmiller@umd.edu> Subject: Re: Position Announcement: Call for Applications Dear colleagues, Just a quick reminder that the deadline for applications for the assistant research professor/assistant director position described below is this week, December 1st. We are not necessarily looking for a person with training in Islamic studies. Preference will be given to applicants with expertise in TEI and/or DH project management experience. Please contact me with any questions. Best, Matt On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:09 AM Matthew Thomas Miller <mtmiller@umd.edu> wrote: > 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/or 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/), 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 2022-11-28 08:43:22+00:00 From: Elspeth Brown <elspeth.brown@utoronto.ca> Subject: Job Opening (1 YR): Senior Research Associate, University of Toronto Dear Colleagues, I wanted to alert you to a job opening—a one year leave replacement—for a Senior Research Associate, Digital and Collaborative Scholarship, based at the University of Toronto, Mississauga campus. Here is a link to the posting <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-ON/565494717/>. It’s an excellent job for someone who has graduate training in these areas, and who is interested in helping to build a research community in the arts, (digital) humanities, and social sciences. The SRA is in charge of our collaborative research space CDRS <https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cdrs/>, which opened just before the pandemic. The person also works one day per week on projects relating the our Critical Digital Humanities Initiative <https://dhn.utoronto.ca/> at the U of T. The posting closes soon: December 11, 2022. Warmly, Elspeth Dr. Elspeth H. Brown Faculty Lead Critical Digital Humanities Initiative University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php