Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Studies 2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Studies 2024
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The Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan invites candidates for the DSI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with one course per year teaching load. This is a 12month termlimited position beginning 8/26/2024 with the potential to be renewed for a second 12month term.
Applications are welcome from interdisciplinary scholars with demonstrated research expertise in Digital Studies and closely affiliated fields. This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar with an interest in broadly defined critical digital studies whose work may come from a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to philosophy art and design language and literature anthropology critical ethnic studies history digital archives law and social work and other fields in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. The postdoctoral fellow will be affiliated primarily with the Digital Studies Institute and will work closely with an interdisciplinary range of faculty and students.
This is a 100 effort position over the 12 months 8/26/20248/31/2025. It is expected there will be a combination of research 50 teaching 16.67 and programmatic development 33.33 during the ninemonth academic year and research 67 and programmatic development 33.33 during the spring/summer term. Postdoctoral Fellows are expected to be in residence no later than August 26 2024.
As part of the programmatic development effort the Fellow will be responsible for organizing or participating in two relevant topical events per year (e.g. roundtables lectures installations brownbags pedagogy workshops etc. in collaboration with the Associate Director of DSI. The Fellow will also have a key role in helping organize the Digital IDEAS Summer Institute that will occur in June 2024. Teaching one course per year as a Lecturer is the expectation. Courses will be assigned at the discretion of the Associate Director in consultation with the Fellow depending upon the needs of the unit qualifications of the Fellow etc. Duties and responsibilities for the Lecturer position are in addition to teaching one course per year holding office hours supervising Graduate Student Instructors (if applicable) and handling routine matters related to instruction. The total effort will be coordinated so as to total 100 over the 12 months.
Fulltime rate (FTR): $60000/12 months (plus $5000/year allocation for research expense reimbursement)
The Lecturer position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the UM and the Lecturers Employee Organization AFLCIO which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages benefits hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
- PhD in a Digital Studiesrelated field (by August 26 2024 broadly understood
- Demonstrated excellence in collegelevel teaching.
Employment Type
Grant
