Digital Humanities Fellow | ITHAKA Career Opportunities

Digital Humanities Fellow

Ann Arbor, MI

The Role

ITHAKA is looking for a digital humanities practitioner and educator to drive adoption and use of JSTOR’s suite of tools, APIs and content aimed at digital scholars. The Digital Humanities Fellow will create teaching materials and teach workshops and webinars related to digitization and metadata production, text and data mining, and linked open data. Funded in part by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this two-year-term position starting June 1, 2019 is ideal for the recent Digital Humanities Masters or PhD graduate seeking to apply their skills towards expanding the impact of digital scholarship. For the right candidate, this position can be held while still a student. The Digital Humanities Fellow will be a member of the innovative and collaborative JSTOR Labs team.

Responsibilities

The Digital Humanities Fellow will play a key role on the Plant Humanities Initiative, a partnership between JSTOR and Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute, museum and historic garden affiliated with Harvard University and located in Washington D.C. The Plant Humanities Initiative will pilot a new model for integrating digital humanities with scholarly programming to support the development of a new and emerging field. During the course of this project, the JSTOR Labs team will develop a new digital tool supporting plant humanities research and fellows at Dumbarton Oaks will employ this tool toward the creation of new scholarship. One of the aims of the digital tool will be connecting, contextualizing, and disseminating digitized primary sources. It will be the Digital Humanities Fellow’s responsibility to teach these fellows digital humanities skills and to support their use of the new tool. Upon completion of the tool, the Digital Humanities Fellow will assist in disseminating and gathering feedback on the digital tool through means such as presenting at appropriate conferences and contributing to a written report.

The Digital Humanities Fellow will also drive adoption and use of JSTOR’s other digital humanities tools, APIs, services and content. These services include Data For Research, a text- and data-mining service which JSTOR is currently exploring expanding in partnership with other non-profit collections-holders. JSTOR Labs has a suite of APIs to support digital humanists, including those related to Text Analyzer, its award-winning document analysis and search tool, and Understanding Great Works, a new tool for studying primary literary and historical texts. To encourage adoption and use of these tools and services, the Digital Humanities Fellow will speak at conferences, give webinars, and create instructional materials like assignments and sample datasets. He or she will inform the development of these services by being the voice of the user to the developers. Last, the Digital Humanities Fellow will co-author with other Labs members articles for scholarly and popular journals about their work.