Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty in Digital Archives
Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty in Digital Archives
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Job Description
Position description
The University of Michigans School of Information (UMSI) invites applications for a tenuretrack 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 largescale 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 Michigans 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 peerreviewed journals book chapters edited books books and conference proceedings
Seek external funding to support their research program
Teach in UMSIs five academic programs
Mentor students for independent studies masters 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.
Each contributing member of the UMSI faculty will have a teaching effort equivalent to three semesterlong courses per year.
About UMSI and UM
The mission of the School of Information is to create and share knowledge to help people use information with technology to build a better world. A successful candidate will be committed to and will directly contribute to our goal of being the best research and teaching institution for the understanding and design of information and its technologies in service of people and society. The diverse perspectives the UMSI community brings to our scholarship teaching and service make our school stronger and help us fulfill our mission of building a better world through technology and information. The School is home to vibrant research and teaching programs with 80 FTE professors and over 1848 students. We offer five degrees: a Ph.D. a Master of Science in Information a Master of Health Informatics a Bachelor of Science in Information and an online Master of Applied Data Science. To learn more about UMSIs DEI office and initiatives visit https://www.si.umich/aboutumsi/diversityequityinclusionoffice. For more information about UMSI please visit: www.si.umich.
Founded in 1817 the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nations top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1.53 billion in research expenditures annually the University has the secondlargest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual general fund budget of more than $2.3 billion and an endowment valued at more than $12.5 billion.
From great benefits to onsite wellness programs UM provides resources to support faculty staff and their familys health and happiness. For instance UM offers comprehensive health dental and vision insurance child care centers and a retirement plan with twoforone matching contributions and immediate vesting. Dual career support from the Provosts Office is available to domestic partners of faculty recruits regardless of marital status or sexual orientation. To learn more about the great benefits UM provides please visit https://hr.umich/benefitswellness.
Background Screening
The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a thirdparty administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Minimum Qualifications
Ph.D. in an area such as information library and information science science and technology studies social or computer science or a related discipline
Potential for or demonstrated ability for exemplary teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels
A strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and cultural diversity
Desired Qualifications
A record in teaching and research
Employment Type
Full Time
