Category Archives: Doctoral Students

Postdoctoral Fellow of Special Collections and Digital Humanities

Description: The University of Delaware Library and the College of Arts and Sciences invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow of Special Collections and Digital Humanities. We seek an untenured scholar in the humanities (PhD received January 2010 – June 2016). The mission of the Fellow is to promote primary sources related to African American culture found in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library through collaborative instruction, programming, creative outreach, and project development. The fellowship is a residential one-year academic appointment (September 2016-August 31, 2017), renewable up to three years. The PhD is the only eligible terminal degree. We are looking for an engaged humanist whose educational background suits her or him to work at the intersection of the classroom, the museum and/or archive, and the digital realm. Relevant training in programming, library sciences, computer graphics, computational linguistics, or other fields relevant to digital humanities research is desirable but not required.

This is a dual reporting line assigned to an academic department in the College of Arts and Science and Special Collections in the University of Delaware Library. The SC/DH fellow will pursue his or her own research project and teach one class per academic year that engages students with UD’s special collections materials and showcases those materials. The SC/DH fellow will also serve on and work with a budgeted committee made up of library staff and UD humanities faculty designed to coordinate classes, projects, exhibitions, lectures, and public events related to UD’s special collections.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a deep working knowledge of UD Library’s Special Collections holdings, particularly African American sources http://library.udel.edu/spec Applicants must submit a plan for two classes (one undergraduate and one graduate class) that will make use of these sources, particularly the Alice Dunbar Nelson papers and the Gregory C. Wilson collection of African-American postcards and trade cards. The letter of application should be specific in describing the intersection of personal research interests with primary sources available in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library.

Qualifications: PhD in a humanities discipline received January 2010June 2016; experience with archival research and use of primary sources in personal scholarship; experience with digital platforms and technologies, especially in the area of teaching; experience in teaching undergraduates; strong computer skills, including fluency in platforms such as Omeka, Scripto, WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite, and video and audio editing software.

General Information: The University of Delaware has a long tradition of excellence beginning in 1743 and extending to the research-intensive, technologically advanced institution of today. The University provides a broad range of academic programs at the undergraduate, master, and doctoral levels. There are over 1,100 full-time faculty and 4,000 staff serving a student body of over 21,000. Located in Newark, Delaware, with its 970-acre campus, the University of Delaware is situated one hour from Philadelphia and two hours from New York and Washington, D.C.

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) encourages and supports innovative interdisciplinary collaborations and engagement with local, national and global audiences through research and creative activity. Humanities departments include Art Conservation; Art History; English; History; Languages, Literature and Cultures; and Philosophy. CAS includes numerous interdisciplinary Programs and Centers, such as the renowned Center for Material Culture Studies, the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and Museum Studies. http://www.cas.udel.edu

Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library houses the rare books, special topical collections, manuscripts, archives, photographs, maps, graphic materials, ephemera collections, audio-visual materials, and electronic records that comprise the primary historical sources and special collecting areas of the Library. Special Collections has significant holdings related to History and Delawareana; Chemistry; history of Science and Technology; the fine, decorative, and applied Arts; English, American, and Irish literature; and Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. These collecting areas focus on the University’s program strengths of the such as Chemistry, Engineering, the Hagley Graduate Program in History, the Longwood program in Public Horticulture, the Winterthur programs in American Material Culture and Art Conservation, and more. http://library.udel.edu/spec/

The University of Delaware Library collections, which are broadly based and comprehensive, include over 2.8 million volumes. The Library (http://library.udel.edu) makes accessible a broad range of electronic resources, including approximately 50,000 electronic and print journals, over 370 databases, and over 26,000 videos. In 2014, the University of Delaware Library became the first member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to replace its traditional Library Information System with OCLC’s WMS (WorldShare Management Services) cloud-based system. The Library is a member of ARL, Center for Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, Council on Library and Information Resources, Digital Library Federation, OCLC Research Partnership, SPARC, HathiTrust, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, and the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL). Recent projects at the Library have included the use of Omeka for online exhibits and support for the Colored Conventions digital humanities project. Ongoing projects include enhancements to the institutional repository UDSpace and direct linking to digital collections stored in Artstor and UDSpace. For information about DH at UD, please visit http://www.ihrc.udel.edu and http://guides.lib.udel.edu/digitalhumanities

Benefits: Vacation of 22 working days. TIAA-CREF or Fidelity retirement with 11% of salary contributed by the University. Tuition remission for dependents and spouses, and course fee waiver for employee. Full information about University of Delaware benefits is available online: http://www.udel.edu/Benefits/

To Apply: Please submit the following in a single document (PDF) following University of Delaware application instructions at http://www.udel.edu/udjobs/

  1. Complete curriculum vita
  2. Letter of application that discusses areas of research and teaching, along with experience with digital tools and pedagogy. Please be specific in noting the platforms and tools (software, applications, interfaces) with which you have experience and the level of your experience (no more than 2 pages)
  3. The names and contact information of three employment references

Equal Employment Opportunity: Employment offers will be conditioned upon successful completion of a criminal background check. A conviction will not necessarily exclude you from employment. The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer which encourages applications from Minority Group Members, Women, Individuals with Disabilities and Veterans. The University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination can be found at http://www.udel.edu/aboutus/legalnotices.html library.udel

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

WASHINGTON (February 29, 2016) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the two largest funders of humanities research in the United States, today announced a new joint fellowship opportunity to support high-quality “born digital” research in the humanities.

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication seek to encourage scholars engaged in humanities research that requires digital formats and digital publication. Eligible projects must be conceived as digital because the nature of the research and the topics addressed demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. For example, for scholarship in fields like art history, musicology, or media studies, an interactive digital publication may allow the author to use multimedia to make arguments or illustrate critical points that would be otherwise difficult or impossible in traditional print formats.

“Over the past five decades NEH and the Mellon Foundation have supported some of the most important books in the humanities through our respective fellowship programs,” said NEH Chairman William D. Adams. “Today we are pleased to join together to help foster new forms of scholarship that take advantage of the unique possibilities afforded by digital tools, formats, and methods. Our hope is to spur innovation and experimentation that will take humanities research beyond the printed page.”

“Research in the humanities is increasingly exploring the richness of human expression in digital form and in audio and visual materials, which can be represented digitally but not so easily in print,” said Earl Lewis, Mellon Foundation president. “Scholars are also recognizing the need to reach audiences using new digital media. These digital publication fellowships are designed to help scholars in the humanities both convey the results of their research on new media and reach new audiences.”

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication are designed for individual researchers and scholars and support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. Successful applicants receive a stipend of $4,200 per month, with a maximum stipend of $50,400 for a twelve-month period.

Application guidelines for NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication are available at neh.gov. The application deadline for the initial cycle of NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication is April 28.

The NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication special opportunity is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ agency-wide initiative The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square, which seeks to demonstrate and enhance the role of the humanities and humanities scholarship in public life.

Congressional Research Grants

DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than April 1, 2016.

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress.  The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress.  Since 1978, the Congressional Research Grants program has invested more than $998,026 to support over 450 projects. Applications are accepted at any time, but the deadline is April 1 for the annual selections, which are announced in May.

The Center has allocated up to $50,000 in 2016 for grants with individual awards capped at $3,500.

The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress.  Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible.  The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research.  Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.

The grants program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study.  Organizations are not eligible.  Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible.  No institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Grant.

Download the Word document — Congressional Research Grant Application — and complete the required entries. You may send the application as a Word or pdf attachment to an e-mail directed to Frank Mackaman at fmackaman@dirksencenter.org. Please insert the following in the Subject Line:  “CRG Application [insert your surname].” Thank you.

All application materials must be received on or before April 1, 2016. Awards will be announced in May 2016.
Complete information about what kind of research projects are eligible for consideration, what could a Congressional Research Grant Award pay for, application procedures, and how recipients are selected may be found at The Center’s Website:http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRGs.htm. PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer –fmackaman@dirksencenter.org

Keystone Digital Humanities

Please consider submitting a proposal to participate in the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference:

The Keystone Digital Humanities conference will be held in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, July 22-24, 2015.

Proposals are now invited for the following, in all areas of digital humanities:

  • Long presentations (20 minutes)
  • Short presentations (7 minutes)
  • Project showcases (10 minutes)

Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, short papers, project demos, or panel discussions. We welcome proposals from emerging and veteran students, teachers, and scholars.

In addition, we are thrilled to announce that Dr. Miriam Posner, Coordinator and Core Faculty of the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA, will be presenting the keynote lecture, “What’s Next?: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities.”

The community will be invited to vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. The 10 proposals with the highest scores are guaranteed a slot at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions.

Please send your name, email address, and a proposal of 200-300 words to keystonedh.conference@gmail.com. The proposal deadline is January 2, 2015, and community peer review will run from January 15-February 15. Proposers will be notified by March 1.

CAiSE Doctoral Consortium

The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of Information Systems Engineering and provide them with an opportunity to present and discuss their research to an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment, as well as to participate in a number of plenary sessions with Information Systems academics.

Submission must be made through the conference management system available at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2015-dc

Paper submissions deadline: March 31, 2015

Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). CEUR proceedings are indexed in DBLP.

Also, this submission might allow PhD students (in case of acceptance of their DC paper) to candidate for a future CAiSE PhD Award after their viva.

Dirksen Congressional Center Research Grants

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Grants program has invested more than $915,136 to support over 425 projects. Applications are accepted at any time, but the deadline is March 1 for the annual selections, which are announced in April.

The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.

The grants program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. No institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Grant.

Download the Word document — Congressional Research Grant Application — and complete the required entries. You may send the application as a Word or PDF attachment to an e-mail directed to Frank Mackaman at fmackaman@dirksencenter.org. Please insert the following in the Subject Line: “CRG Application [insert your surname].” Thank you.

The Congressional Research Grant Application contains the following elements: Applicant Information, Congressional Research Grant Project Description, Budget, Curriculum Vita, Reference Letter (for graduate students only), and Overhead Waiver Letter.

The entire application when printed must NOT exceed ten pages. Applications may be single-spaced. Please use fonts no smaller than 10-point. This total does NOT include the reference letter (one additional page) or the Overhead Waiver Letter (one additional page).

All application materials must be received on or before March 1 of the current year. Grants will be announced in April.

Complete information about what kind of research projects are eligible for consideration, what could a Congressional Research Grant pay for, application procedures, and how recipients are selected may be found at The Center’s Website: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRGs.htm. PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer – fmackaman@dirksencenter.or

Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award

The membership of the American Library Association’s Library History Roundtable created and endowed the Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award to recognize outstanding work in our field by emerging library historians.  As chair of the committee to select the 2015 Dain Award winner, I am beginning the solicitation process for the submission of worthy dissertations.  The committee is using the solicitation period to promote library history research among doctoral candidates in library and information science programs as well as in university history departments.  We encourage doctoral students to pursue research on significant topics in the history of libraries, librarians, and librarianship and strongly encourage their faculty advisors to mentor and aid these historical explorations in order to promote interest and excellence in library history. I hope we can count on your active support.

Barry W. Seaver, Ph.D., American History Lecturer, Durham Technical Community College

The full description of the Dain Award and the submission process follows and is available at:

http://www.ala.org/lhrt/awards/phyllis-dain-library-history-dissertation-award

Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award

The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association (ALA) sponsors the biennial Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award. The award is offered only in odd-numbered years. The award, named in honor of a library historian widely known as a supportive advisor and mentor as well as a rigorous scholar and thinker, recognizes outstanding dissertations in English in the general area of library history. Five hundred dollars and a certificate are given for a selected dissertation that embodies original research on a significant topic relating to the history of libraries during any period, in any region of the world.

Eligibility and Criteria

Dissertations completed and accepted during the preceding two academic years are eligible. Dissertations from 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 will compete for the 2015 award. Entries are judged on: clear definition of the research questions and/or hypotheses; use of appropriate primary resources; depth of research; superior quality of writing; and significance of the conclusions. The round table is particularly interested in dissertations that place the subject within its broader historical, social, cultural, and political context and make interdisciplinary connections with print culture and information studies.

Submissions and Selection

The award winner will be selected by the Phyllis Dain Dissertation Award Committee appointed by the LHRT vice chair/chair elect. The winner will be announced in a press release on or about June 1st of the award year. A certificate honoring the author will be presented at the Library History Round Table awards ceremony during the American Library Association Annual Conference.

Four copies of the dissertation and a letter of support from the doctoral advisor or from another faculty member at the degree-granting institution are required. Submissions must be received by January 14, 2015.  Receipt will be confirmed within four business days.

Submit manuscripts to:

LHRT: Dain Award Committee
Office for Research and Statistics
American Library Association
50 East Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611

Fax and e-mail submissions are not acceptable.

ECSCW 2013 Doctoral Colloquium The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013)

21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

http://www.ecscw2013.org/

The ECSCW 2013 Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for doctoral students
to discuss their research in an international forum, under the guidance of a
panel of experienced CSCW researchers. The Doctoral Colloquium will be held on
Sunday the 22nd of September 2013 as part of the 13th European Conference on
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Paphos, Cyprus (
http://www.ecscw2013.org).

We invite students who are working in the broad field of CSCW to apply. The
strongest candidates will be those students who have a well-established research
proposal, have made some progress towards it, but are still on time to benefit
from advice and feedback by peers and senior colleagues. Selected candidates will
be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work during the
Colloquium, to be followed by extensive group discussion in a friendly and
constructive workshop.

To apply please submit the following documents

1) A 4-page overview of your doctoral research, stating your research questions,
level of advancement, and expected contributions. Formatting instructions and
paper templates are available at
http://ecscw2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy/templates.zip.
The submissions are not anonymous and should therefore include names,
affiliations and contact information.

2) A short (2-3 paragraph) biography.

3) A paragraph that articulates what you expect to gain from attending the
ECSCW 2013 Doctoral Colloquium.

4) An email letter from your supervisor indicating that they support your
application to the ECSCW 2013 Doctoral Colloquium and that they agree that your
research is at an appropriate stage for participation. These letters should
also indicate how you and other students might benefit from your participation
in the colloquium. The e-mail should be sent to
ecscw13dc@umbc.edu stating
“ECSCW Doctoral Colloquium: + YOUR NAME” in the subject heading.

All items should be submitted as PDF files through easychair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecscw2013

Item 1 should be submitted separately, items 2 and 3 should be submitted
as a single PDF file.

IMPORTANT DATES

� Submission Deadline: 15 June 2013 (5:00pm PDT) using EasyChair
� Notification Date: 22 June 2013
� Camera-Ready Deadline: 26 September 2013

DC CHAIRS

Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Contact: ecscw13dc@umbc.edu

Africana Research Center

Job # 37344

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Africana Research Center
Penn State University – University Park, Pennsylvania

The Africana Research Center invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in any aspect of African American and Diaspora Studies, beginning August 2013. During their residency, fellows have no teaching or administrative responsibilities, though they may request a teaching assignment. They will be matched with a mentor, attend professional development sessions and other relevant events, and be expected to be active in Penn State’s community of Africana researchers. Successful applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. within the previous four academic years. Salary/benefit package is competitive. Submit complete application packets including cover letter describing your research and goals for the fellowship year, a curriculum vita (6 page maximum), and a writing sample of no more than 30 double-spaced pages at http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/ by November 7, 2012. Three letters of reference should be addressed to the attention of the ESSS !
 Selection Committee and e-mailed directly to africanacenter@la.psu.edu . Please direct questions about the process via e-mail to africanacenter@la.psu.edu .

Penn State requires successful completion of background check(s) consistent with the requirements of the job. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workplace.
__________________________________________
Dawn M. Noren
Director’s Assistant
Pennsylvania State University
Africana Research Center
217 Willard Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6144
Fax: (814) 865-6145
Web: www.arc.psu.edu
814-863-2085 (fax)
www.la.psu.edu

Staging Women’s Lives in Academia

We are putting together an edited collection, tentatively titled Staging Women’s Lives in Academia.  The subtitle, yet to be figured out, will indicate that our focus is upon women in literature and languages.  The book, under serious consideration at Rutgers University Press for its new Higher Education Studies series, will focus upon nodal points of professional (graduate school, pre- and post- tenure, mid- and later- career, and retirement) and personal life for women in academia.  We have two key premises:  that choosing not to continue down the traditional path of academic life stages is as significant as following it, and that the usual conflation of academic and age-specific life stages is deeply gendered.  

 

Our design for the collection outlines professional life stages.  These range from:

 

*                     finishing the degree  (who chooses to write or not write the dissertation);

*                     seeking academic or other employment post-Ph.D.;

*                     beginning and then remaining in the profession (publishing, promotions, moving into administration or not);

*                     leaving academia once employed (whether in a full-time or part-time, pre-tenure or post-tenure position);

*                     deciding to retire or to continue working.

 

We welcome essays from women who have followed a traditional career path, but also from those who’ve travelled other roads.  We can readily see a graduate student writing about the decision to get the Ph.D. but not pursue academic employment, for example, an adjunct writing about mid-career parenting decisions, an administrator writing about being “stuck,” an associate professor talking about the decision not to seek promotion to full professor, etc. Parenting, elder-care issues, and general assessment of “professionalization” values can also lead to priorities other than those usually counseled through professional advice venues.  

 

Although we of course want contributors to draw upon personal experience, we will be asking that they both theorize and concretize their essays.  As you think about this call, we’d like to ask that you also think about some very basic questions that could help others, such as: “Do/did you discover that your experience was typical, but nonetheless didn’t expect it?”  “What would you point out as the key features of this stage to a colleague just beginning it?” “How do you think your experiences were shaped by the kind of school you worked at and where your school was situated?” and, everyone’s favorite, “What would you do differently if you had it to do again?”  

 

Besides these basic questions, there are many others that you might consider, such as: What is gendered about your career path, your career experience?  How did race/ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and culture affect your academic experience at each stage?  How did your academic work feed into, enhance, or distract from other parts of your life?  Or how much of your personal life intersects with or clashes with your work life?  Has your work changed over time?  Have you changed over time in terms of your enthusiasm for, and interest in, your work?  

 

We want contributors to be frank, but we also want these essays to encourage “best practice” discussion and also to serve as references for other women.  Because responding fully to some of these topics may be difficult, we are willing to accept proposals or essays by authors writing under a pseudonym or anonymously.  We also invite proposals written by several people in dialogue with each other.  

 

Please consider sending in a proposal for this collection, but also think about students and colleagues who fall under the “did not choose to” rubrics who may not be receiving notes such as this.  Please forward this call to them.  We would like to receive proposals by June 1, 2012.  Proposal packets should include a 500-word abstract (or a full essay, if appropriate) and a brief c.v.  Final essays should be around 6250 words, including notes and Works Cited, although we will consider shorter pieces.  They should be sent to both of us:  

 

Michelle Mass� at mmasse@lsu.edu

Nan Bauer-Maglin at nbauer-maglin@gc.cuny.edu