[Asis-l] Fwd: Faculty position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities at UM School of Information

[Maria Souden]

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From: Paul Edwards <pne at umich.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Subject: Faculty position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities at UM
School of Information

please forward widely!Faculty Position in Digital Environments/Digital
Humanities *Rank: Assistant Professor*

The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) seeks an outstanding
tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level to help
establish a vigorous program of research and teaching in Digital
Environments/Digital Humanities. New technologies and digital environments
offer transformative opportunities for the humanities. At the same time,
they bring unheralded challenges for accountability, authority,
representation, intelligibility, and the assessment of value. Candidates for
this position should have a demonstrated research record investigating
topics of concern in the digital humanities. Potential areas of research
include (but are not limited to) virtual collaboration in the humanities;
design of interactive humanities-related media; credibility and authority of
digital content; ethnography or history of digital culture; and curation of
digital resources.

This position is part of a Digital Environments faculty cluster aimed at
transforming humanities scholarship and engaging faculty and students in new
modes of research, teaching, and learning. The Digital Environments cluster
represents a partnership between the School of Information; the departments
of English Language and Literature and Communication Studies; and the
Program in American Culture, each of which is hiring a new faculty member
through independent searches. Candidates for the School of Information
position will engage with these new faculty as well as colleagues across the
university, through such venues as research projects, a speaker series,
reading groups, and teaching initiatives.

For more information or to apply, please visit
http://www.si.umich.edu/about-SI/digital_environments.htm. Application
letters for this position must discuss the candidate's ideas for interacting
with the cluster group. Before doing so, please read the full description of
the Digital Environments cluster (see full job description on our website
for details).

The mission of the School of Information, where this position will reside,
is to connect people, information, and technology in more valuable ways. The
School is home to a dynamic and vibrant research and teaching program, with
35 FTE faculty, 49 doctoral students, and 404 students in its professional
program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other
units, we recently launched a new undergraduate informatics major. The
School of Information is internationally recognized for its research
strengths in social informatics, network analysis and text mining, human
computer interaction, digital archives, cyberinfrastructure, digital
preservation, and information seeking, sharing and use. More about the
School, its vision, and its activities can be found at the School's website:
http://www.si.umich.edu

Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished
history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of
only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten
universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in
the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With
more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has
the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the
nation. The University has an annual budget of more than $1.4 billion and an
endowment valued at more than $7.57 billion.
Qualifications:

   - Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in a relevant area, such as literature,
   history, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology, communication
   studies, design, information science, library science, archival studies, or
   technical fields involving significant interactions with the humanities
   - Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and
   graduate levels
   - Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact
   - A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, creative
   activity, and cultural diversity

Review of applications will begin Nov. 1 and continue until the position is
filled. *
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Maria Souden, MSI
Doctoral Candidate
University of Michigan
School of Information
seramar at umich.edu
maria.souden at gmail.com
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