Digital Public Humanities Fellowship (Post-Doc)
Brown University
Providence

The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and
the

Department of American Studies, Brown University, seek a postdoctoral fellow
in the Digital

Public Humanities. Digital humanities often results in projects open to the
public, and public

humanities work increasingly takes advantage of digital tools to reach and
interact with broad

audiences. We seek a postdoctoral fellow to help explore the connections
between the two

fields.

  
The candidate should have experience in publicly-engaged humanities work (in a
gallery,

library, archive or museum; community arts organization; school; social
justice project, for a

few examples) and demonstrated digital skills relevant to humanities research,
teaching,

community engagement, and/or publishing. S/he should be both a practitioner
and a

thoughtful critic and theoretician with an active research agenda and a public
practice. We

seek a generalist who might specialize in any of a range of digital humanities
methods or

technical practices, but be able to teach and consult across the whole range
of the digital

humanities.

  
The fellow will teach in the Master's of Public Humanities program; help
connect the American

Studies Department and the Center for Public Humanities with digital
humanities on campus

and nationally; and provide consultations for faculty, students, and community
partners on

research and public projects. We expect that such activities will constitute
half of the fellow's

time, with half available for their own research and projects.

  
Brown's American Studies department maintains flourishing programs at the
undergraduate,

MA, and PhD levels; has a faculty involved in national and international
digital projects; and

has taught digital courses for several years. The Center for Public Humanities
has built a

strong reputation for programs that connect university humanities expertise
with broader

audiences, community-based arts and humanities, and in training students for
work in a broad

range of cultural organizations. The public humanities program has been moving
aggressively

to incorporate digital work into its courses and projects. This postdoctoral
fellowship is a fulltime

salaried appointment ($50,000) with excellent benefits and research/project
support funds

each year. It is open only to recent Ph.D. recipients; the fellow must have
completed all

requirements for the Ph.D. by September 2015 and no earlier than June 2011.
The

appointment will be for two years.



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