univ_southern_mississippi.jpg

Postdoctoral Digital Humanities Scholar

University of Southern Mississippi

Job Description

Full job description

 

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.

 

 

About The University of Southern Mississippi
Since our founding in 1910, The University of Southern Mississippi has remained dedicated to preparing students for success. We deliver programs to more than 13,000 students in Hattiesburg and Long Beach, at teaching and research sites across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as well as online. We are a community-engaged Carnegie R1 university, earning distinction as one of the nation's leading research institutions.

Southern Miss is known for pioneering work in polymer science, ocean science, spectator sports safety and security, and bringing language to children with communication disorders. We are also a national leader in a broad range of disciplines, including cybersecurity, hydrography, nutrition, aquaculture, kinesiology, and economic development, among others.

We produce graduates ready to enter fields that are leading the way in emerging technologies through programs such as computer engineering, information technology, and ocean engineering. We’re developing the next generation of business leaders, while also responding to critical workforce shortages by producing skilled professionals in education and nursing. With a tradition of excellence in the arts, we are one of only 36 public institutions in the nation accredited in four major areas of the arts. Home to the Golden Eagles, our student-athletes compete in 17 NCAA Division I sports. With a culture marked by passion and persistence, Southern Miss is delivering graduates who are ready for life. For more information, visit www.usm.edu.

As an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity employer/Americans with Disabilities Act institution, The University of Southern Mississippi encourages minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities to apply.

*Please mention you saw this ad on HigherEd-Diversity.*

Apply Now

Be Seen By Recruiters at the Best Institutions

Create a FREE Profile to be Seen!

Want to stand

Where Higher Ed Recruits Diversity.