Tenure-track positions, University of Iowa
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Inserito il 15/01/2017
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The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at The University of Iowa invites applications for one or more tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level beginning Fall 2017. We seek excellent research-oriented candidates to participate in SLIS’s ALA-accredited Master’s program and in at least one of the campus initiatives described below.The position will involve 40% instruction (four courses per year), 40% research and 20% service responsibilities, the norm for the program.
SLIS has a strong history of interdisciplinary projects and partnerships, including the Virtual Writing University, the UI Center for the Book, the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, the Iowa Graduate Program in Informatics, the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and most recently, the Public Humanities in a Digital World cluster. Virtually all faculty in SLIS have collaborative relationships with other units on campus, with such collaboration actively encouraged by both SLIS and College leadership. SLIS was one of the three primary founding departments for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics.
In addition to the MA in Library and Information Science, the School collaborates with other academic units in offering a certificate, masters and PhD in Informatics, joint degree programs with the College of Law and the Center for the Book, and certificates in Book Studies and in Public Digital Humanities. Additionally, SLIS students may advance their studies through an interdisciplinary doctoral program hosted by the Graduate College.
Successful candidates must have a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science or a related discipline.
We seek candidates with experience and interest in one or more of the following areas. First we seek candidates in the digital humanities defined broadly. Strong candidates will have experience working with digital humanities projects and will have some aspect of the digital humanities as a primary research focus. We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in teaching technology to students from humanities disciplines and with the ability to translate technical concepts into humanistic contexts. Areas of interest include database design, metadata and organization, and visual design of digital environments.
Additionally, we seek candidates who have a research focus in the area of literacies, including academic, information and digital literacies. Expertise in scholarly domains and communication are of particular interest here.
We also seek candidates who have a research focus in some combination of: information/knowledge extraction and transformation, knowledge representation and ontologies, exploratory analysis of complex knowledge spaces, data curation and provenance, and/or Semantic Web technologies. In an era of ‘big data’ hype, the transformation of raw data into actionable information is one of the most daunting challenges facing the emerging field of informatics. The transformation of information into inference-supporting knowledge holds equally challenging prospects for the future.
A successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work on data- and/or computationally-intensive problems in a highly collaborative interdisciplinary environment.
Successful candidates must demonstrate scholarly research and publication appropriate for appointed rank, and be able to teach courses in the Masters’ degree program.
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