University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Application Deadline: Dec 01, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
The University of Michigan's School of Information (UMSI) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position specializing in digital archives and digital curation. This hire aims to further integrate our established expertise in archival and library science with our leadership in data science. Potential research areas include:
Critical digital archival and data studies
Computational approaches to archives, broadly construed
Data technologies and infrastructure
Artificial intelligence and archives
Infrastructures, tools, and policies for digital archives
Records creation, curation, and preservation technologies, including data security mechanisms
Data documentation, search, discovery, and reuse
Building and managing large-scale digital data archives
UMSI is committed to encouraging a collaborative academic environment. We are excited by a new colleague who shares our mission and offers unique and divergent perspectives on it. We look forward to your application and the possibility of you joining our team to push the boundaries of digital archives and data science at the University of Michigan’s School of Information.
Job Expectations and Responsibilities:
Job responsibilities include research, teaching, and service. Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Conduct scholarly research resulting in publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, edited books, books, and conference proceedings
Seek external funding to support their research program
Teach in UMSI’s five academic programs
Mentor students for independent studies, master’s projects and theses, and doctoral dissertations
Provide service to the school, university, and the broader academic community through committee work, journal editing, community engagement, and other opportunities.
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