The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech invites applications and nominations for a founding Director of the Virginia Tech Center for the Humanities. The College is establishing a Center for the Humanities as part of a renewed commitment to raising the profile and presence of humanities disciplines at Virginia Tech.
The American University of Sharjah, an internationally ranked and accredited American-style university of 6000 students in the United Arab Emirates, seeks a full-time faculty member with specialization in English Literature to teach program courses in literature, general education, and critical writing in the Department of English. The Department of English is especially interested in candidates with such interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies as digital humanities, literature and the arts, law and literature, and literature and the environment or culture.
The UConn Library’s Digital Scholarship and Data Curation Unit, along with Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut seeks an experienced web developer to serve as Digital Scholarship and Repository Analyst in a full-time role.
Indiana University, Bloomington is pleased to accept applications for the CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of social science and humanities fields, including (but not limited to) African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Economics, Geography, Gender Studies, History, Native American Studies, Latino Studies, Media and Communications, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology.
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University will continue its Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Career Research Fellowship Program, “Thinking the Humanities in the 21st Century,” in 2017-2018. The Fellowship is directed toward teachers at four-year liberal arts colleges who have received tenure within the last five years. In 2017-2018 it will again welcome three outstanding scholars to the Whitney Humanities Center, where they will pursue research programs in any area of the humanities and related fields and enter into intellectual exchanges with faculty, fellows, and other visitors to the Center.
The Center for the Study of Human Health (CSHH) at Emory University seeks a Lecturer in Humanities and Health to begin fall semester of 2017. CSHH is an interdisciplinary liberal arts program that supports a BA in human health through innovative courses and scholarly endeavors with broad perspectives on health and the human condition. This position is open to scholars across the humanities, including art and art history, film, theater, and media studies, history, all literature and language departments, religion, philosophy, public health and gender and sexuality studies.
Teaches course(s) in specific discipline. Responsible for instructional preparation and assessment of student performance. Provides assistance to students by appointment. Attends a limited number of faculty meetings.
The ideal dance technologies and studio practice candidate will be a specialist in the merger of dance and technology, expertly qualified in video technologies with a record of accomplishments that evidences credentials working with dancers in creative projects such as screendance, dance documentary, dance documentation, projection design, and other media and web technologies.
The Library Technology Systems Specialist is a service-oriented professional with the primary responsibility of providing technical assistance to library staff and supporting computer systems, hardware and software in the Libraries. This individual will respond to queries from library staff and the public and will be expected to isolate problems, implement solutions, and if necessary, escalate issues.