Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Gilder Lehrman Center’s New Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship In 2017-2018
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for a one year residential fellowship from scholars and public intellectuals to create a digital public humanities project on the broad topic of chattel slavery and its legacies.
In collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center Director and staff and associated scholars and departments, including Yale University Library’s Digital Humanities Lab and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, the Postdoctoral Associate will develop a public history project that makes use of Yale or other archival collections. Digital Humanities Fellows should have expertise with current digital technologies and applications such as GIS, relational databases, data mapping, 3-D imaging, and the like. The proposed project should serve the Postdoctoral Associate’s scholarly interests, while being useful to both academic and general audiences, including secondary school classroom use. Topics of interest may include, for example, issues surrounding the history of slavery and its abolition in various societies; voting rights and voting suppression; teaching race in the classroom; mapping emancipation processes and refugee movements; or environmental histories of race, class, and resistance.
Digital Humanities Fellows should have an earned doctorate in a relevant field or alternatively equivalent qualifications for research and teaching. In addition to working on the digital humanities project, the Fellow is expected to teach one course related to their research and hold related office hours for students; offer one public lecture or conduct a workshop; and record an audio interview for a podcast. The Postdoctoral Associate is also expected to interact with students and faculty, contribute to the intellectual life of the Center, and participate in its collective activities and development. The Postdoctoral Associate’s digital project will be created in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center and other Yale resources.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
A complete application, including letters of recommendation, must be uploaded to this Interfolio website by March 6, 2017 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time. No late applications will be accepted. For additional information, please email gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
To apply, you are required to submit the following materials via Interfolio:
• Cover Letter
• Curriculum Vitae (CV),
• Two letters of recommendation
• Three to five page statement outlining a proposed digital humanities project, with reference to specific archives, manuscript collections, databases, and other resources within Yale University or other collections.
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This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://glc.yale.edu/fellowships/digital-humanities-postdoctoral-fellowships