Assistant Research Professor, Islamicate Digital Texts

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.

     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.