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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.
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.
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 380 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: 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.
Review of applications will begin Nov. 1 and continue until the position is
filled.
Applicants should submit the following materials online at http://si.umich.edu/about-SI/faculty-postings_login.htm
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Elizabeth
Yakel
Voice:
(734) 763 - 3569
Associate
Professor
FAX: (734) 764 - 2475
University
of
Michigan
Email: [log in to unmask]
School
of Information
105
South State Street
NQ
4419
Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-1285
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