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Faculty Position Postings
Digital Environments/Digital Humanities
Rank: Assistant Professor
The School of Information (SI) seeks a faculty member at the Assistant Professor level who will establish a vigorous research and teaching program in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities. Digital media and technologies are all around us and have transformed interactions in a variety of environments, from work to family to politics. For the humanities, this transformation poses unheralded problems of assessment, accountability, authority, representation, and intelligibility. 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 arts and humanities, credibility and authority in digital content, and / or digital curation.
The School's mission is to connect people, information, and technology in more valuable ways. The School currently has 37 FTE faculty; 50 doctoral students, and 372 students in its professional program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other units, we recently launched a new undergraduate informatics concentration (major). We encourage you to learn more about the School, its mission, and its activities at the SI Web site.
This position is part of a cluster hire in Digital Environments. The cluster consists of three partner units < the Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Communication Studies, and the Program in American Culture < which will also be hiring new faculty in related areas through separate searches. The candidate for the SI position will be expected to engage with these new faculty, as well as others across the university, through such venues as a speaker's series, reading groups, research projects, and teaching initiatives. We ask applicants for the SI position to review the Digital Environments cluster description. Letters of application should mention the candidate's ideas for interacting with the cluster group.
Qualifications: A Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in the areas of English, history, communication studies, art and design, information science, library science, archival science, or computer science, or another relevant field; demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level; demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact; and a strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and creative activity.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled; however, candidates are strongly encouraged to submit their applications by Nov. 25, 2009.
How to Apply:
Applicants will provide contact information and submit the following materials online at http://si.umich.edu/about-SI/faculty-postings.htm:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum vita
- Statement of research
- Statement of teaching
- Three representative publications
- Full names and E-mail addresses for at least three recommenders
The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action educator and employer.
Last updated: Nov 23, 2009
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