Jobs in Digital Curation/Cultural Heritage and Public Memory/Public Histories
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- Jul 25
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The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for three full-time tenure stream positions: two in Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage and one in Public Memory & Public Histories. All positions start July 2026. For details on the individual positions, see below.
These searches align with the University’s commitment to strategically and proactively promote diversity among our community members (Statement on Equity, Diversity & Excellence), and to enact its Response to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Recognizing that Black, Indigenous, and other Racialized communities have experienced inequities that have developed historically and are ongoing, we strongly welcome and encourage candidates from those communities to apply.
Application Deadline: 8 September 2025, 11:59PM ET
Associate Professor - Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026.
Candidates must have earned a doctoral degree in Information; Cultural Heritage Studies; Digital Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Indigenous Studies; Communication Studies; Media Studies; Science & Technology Studies; Architecture; Museum Studies; Human-Computer Interaction or a related area, with a clearly demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance our existing Faculty strengths. The Faculty of Information is home to the Digital Curation Institute, Knowledge Media and Design Institute, Centre for Culture and Technology, and GLAM Incubator, and offers added opportunities for collaboration with Book History and Print Culture. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research, and to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program. The successful candidate will perform standard professional and administrative activities appropriate to a post-tenure career stage at a research-intensive university.
We seek candidates who are leaders in global and comparative research in one or more of the following areas: preservation of born-digital and born-networked materials; virtual reconstruction of tangible and intangible heritage; ethics and governance of digital materials; community-integrated digital heritage; and access and use of digital materials. The successful candidate will bring experience with the creation and/or application of technical skills, including but not limited to: data documentation and metadata; systems design and development; data analytics; augmented and virtual reality modelling; media obsolescence and recovery; workflows; standards; digital forensics; and/or geographic information systems (GIS).
Application Deadline: 8 September 2025, 11:59PM ET
Assistant Professor - Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026.
Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in Information; Cultural Heritage Studies; Digital Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Indigenous Studies; Communication Studies; Media Studies; Science & Technology Studies; Architecture; Museum Studies; Human-Computer Interaction or a related area by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, with a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching.
We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance our existing Faculty strengths. The Faculty of Information is home to the Digital Curation Institute, Knowledge Media and Design Institute, Centre for Culture and Technology, and GLAM Incubator, and offers added opportunities for collaboration with Book History and Print Culture. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research, and to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program. The successful candidate will perform standard professional and administrative activities appropriate to a pre-tenure career stage at a research-intensive university. We seek candidates with global and comparative research interests in one or more of the following areas: preservation of born-digital and born-networked materials; virtual reconstruction of tangible and intangible heritage; ethics and governance of digital materials; community-integrated digital heritage; and access and use of digital materials. The successful candidate will bring experience with the creation and/or application of technical skills, including but not limited to: data documentation and metadata; systems design and development; data analytics; augmented and virtual reality modelling; media obsolescence and recovery; workflows; standards; digital forensics; and/or geographic information systems (GIS).
Application Deadline: 8 September 2025, 11:59PM ET
Associate Professor - Public Memory & Public Histories
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Public Memory & Public Histories. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026.
Research into collective memory and public histories, with an emphasis on those at the margins, threatened with erasure, or otherwise supressed within public discourse. The production and contestation of memory work extending from different forms of witnessing, testimonies and oral histories, through embodied and performative practices, in relation to specific sites or taking place in or against institutions. Practices, methods or technologies of community organizing through construction of – or engagement with – collective memory, as well as diverse or interdisciplinary forms of research into public histories. Traditions of counter-memory work, historical and contemporary (mis)information practices, and the relationship between civic discourse and identity across Indigenous, diasporic, transnational, or otherwise non-Western contexts. Critical implications of contemporary memory infrastructures, policy contexts, political strategies, and transitional movements extending from the past and the present to future interventions.
We are seeking to attract applicants with an international reputation who hold a doctoral degree in such fields as Information Science, Museum Studies, the GLAM sectors (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), History, Anthropology, Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Media and Communication or Journalism Studies, Memory Studies, Performance Studies, and Education. Alternatively, applicants with a terminal Master degree in their field, such as an MFA, with a demonstrated international reputation and experience commensurate to the status of associate professor are invited to apply.
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