W&L University Library seeks to fill a four-year, grant-funded faculty position to implement technologies that will promote the Library’s role as a center of campus-wide academic engagement as well as modernize and streamline traditional library operations and services.
Please see the full position description on the W&L job site.
We’re thrilled to announce the receipt of a Mellon Foundation Grant to support our Digital Humanities initiatives. This grant will expand our curricular offerings as well as provide funding for incentive grants, summer research, a DH speaker and workshop series, student professional development and travel, UVa guest lecturers, and DH institute attendance. Look forward to more details to come in this space as well as a Fall Academy session titled, “Mellon and You” on September 2nd at 10am.
More information available in the W&L press release.
We’re pleased to announce that Washington and Lee University, in collaboration with UVA’s Scholars’ Lab, was recently awarded an R-1 Partnership Grant by the Associated Colleges of the South.
The focus for this grant is building on our successful collaboration and each institution’s strengths to develop a deeper partnership involving even more people. The grant will create opportunities for W&L faculty, staff, and students to learn from the experts at Scholars’ Lab, as well as provide UVA grad students with professional experience in a small liberal arts environment. We look forward to sharing the results of this collaboration via white paper and instructional video.
Submit your course proposals for a Digital Humanities Incentive grant of $1000 to dhat@wlu.edu by 5 pm, 31 October 2014.
Two grants of $1000 will be awarded for pedagogical projects employing tools and techniques of digital humanities within winter or spring 2015 courses. For samples of such course-based projects, please see http://dhat.wludci.info/projects/courses/
Competitive proposals will integrate computing tools such as visualization techniques, data mining, computational analysis, digitized annotated editions of texts, or crowd-sourced interpretations, but you don’t need to know the tools right now, just the project you’d like to embark upon. Preference will be given to plausible projects that will reach all students in your course: tell us about how you think you’d evaluate their work, according to our student learning outcomes. How will your DH project help students meet course, program, or FDR learning objectives?
The DHAT (Digital Humanities Action Team) members are ready to assist course-based DH projects, large and small. If you have a course project you’d like to add to our blog, write to DHAT@wlu.edu .
All undergraduate faculty teaching winter or spring courses employing DH pedgogy are eligible to apply.
Washington and Lee faculty:
Are you considering employing Digital Humanities pedagogy in a fall 2014 or winter 2015 course? If you are undertaking an ambitious new augmenation of your teaching toolbox, one that will introduce you and your students to humanities/social science computing skill sets, tell us about it. Propose your fall or winter DH course-based project to DHAT@wlu.edu by Monday, 21 April, the first day of Spring Term. Members of the Digital Humanities Working Group will select two fall term and two winter term DH course projects for $1,000 stipends.
Competitve proposals will integrate computing tools such as visualization techniques (Mapplication, Timeline), data mining, computational analysis, digitized annotated editions of texts, or crowd-sourced interpretations. Preference will be given to plausible projects that will reach all students in your course: tell us about how you think you’d evaluate their work. How will your DH project help students meet course, program, or FDR learning objectives?
The DHAT (Digital Humanities Action Team) members are ready to assist DH projects, large and small. Check out what W&L faculty have already done at Generally Digital. If you have a course project you’d like to add to our blog, write to DHAT@wlu.edu .
All undergraduate courses and faculty are eligible to apply except for those who have already received an incentive grant in the first round.
Suzanne Keen, Dean of the College
Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s in history who intend to pursue careers as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts college setting. These two-year fellowships are open to candidates who earned their Ph.D.s in Spring 2012 or later. Fellows will play an active role in helping to demonstrate innovative methods of teaching, making interdisciplinary connections and teaching new courses in neglected areas of the curriculum. Fellows will have a reduced teaching load to allow time for their own scholarly development.
The Department of History seeks a specialist in digital history with a concentration in ancient or any field in pre-1800 global or non-Western history. Applicants should have experience with digital humanities pedagogies and using digital humanities tools in their scholarly research.
Apply electronically at our portal: https://jobs.wlu.edu/postings/1907. After filling out a cover sheet, you will be prompted to upload a letter of application, a CV, a sample of recent scholarly work, and enter contact information for two providers of letters of recommendation (or a credentials file). Review of applications will begin April 7, 2014. Address your application letter (and any questions) to Professor Sarah Horowitz (horowitzs@wlu.edu), Chair, Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow in Digital History Search Committee, Department of History, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450. Washington and Lee and the Department of History are interested in candidates committed to high standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
read the full article at http://www.davidson.edu/news/news-stories/131213-mellon-foundation-digital-studies-award