Postdoctoral Digital Humanities Scholar
The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to support its mission to serve as a digital humanities hub for the state of Mississippi.
This grant-funded position, renewable up to three years, will focus on planning and creating materials for a series of digital humanities summer workshops and creating web-based pedagogical tools for secondary and college educators.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Develop, plan and prepare lessons, training guides, and materials for a series of three summer workshops hosted by the CDH.
These workshops will be geared towards higher-education faculty, undergraduate students, and secondary-education teachers from across Mississippi.
- Train student workers, staff, and faculty to teach and support these workshops.
- Assist with the development and support of funded DH scholarship, both at USM and at partner institutions across the state, including teaching workshops on digitization, digital humanities, and DH pedagogy.
- Adhere to CDH and university policies, procedures, and regulations, and perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications PhD in a humanities field (English, History, Philosophy), with at least one year’s experience working in the digital humanities or DH pedagogy.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Experience working with digital humanities tools, pedagogy, and methods.
- Experience teaching, with special consideration given to experience teaching digital humanities skills to audiences with a range of experience.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to adjust work based on input and work within a collaborative, team environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in workshop planning.
- Experience with web development or programming.
- One-year’s teaching experience.