Postdoc Fellowhsip, Carnegie Mllon University
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Inserito il 12/09/2016
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Thanks to a recent Digital Humanities Implementation Grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University’s
Department of English seeks a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow/Research
Associate to lead day-to-day programming and data curation activities for
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon. Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital
reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and
students can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. The
successful candidate will likely have a PhD in History, English, Library
and Information Science, or a related discipline with demonstrated
experience in web development or digital humanities.
The fellow will be housed in the Department of English in the Dietrich
College of Arts and Social Sciences and work with Associate Professor
Christopher Warren, Principal Investigator of the Six Degrees of Francis
Bacon project. Day-to-day work will involve a disciplinarily diverse and
geographically disparate team of Six Degrees collaborators, including
literary historians, historians of science, librarians, statisticians, and
web developers.
Job Duties
The fellow will leverage expertise in a humanities discipline and a strong
technical aptitude to help fulfill five priorities of the NEH Digital
Humanities Implementation Grant:
-Enriching project data.
-Enhancing user experience.
-Integrating with other digital resources.
-Identifying and partnering with an institutional home for long-term
preservation.
-Packaging and distributing website code so that scholars can create
similar networks for different eras and regions.
Required Knowledge and Skills
-Ph.D. or ABD in a relevant subfield of a humanities discipline or Library
and Information Sciences.
-Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and successfully in a
team-based environment.
-Demonstrated willingness to learn technical programming and data curation
skills.
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Knowledge and Skills
-Experience with modern web development, system administration, databases,
or programming languages relevant to the project, including R, Ruby on
Rails, JavaScript, or Python.
-Demonstrated experience in project management and/or digital humanities
research.
-Ph.D. in a relevant subfield of the humanities.
How to Apply: Please submit a cover letter, a CV with links to current/past
digital projects, and contact information for three references at
https://cmu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=2003958.
Salary: $60,000
