Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities, Price Lab

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Posted Job Title

Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities, Price Lab

Job Profile Title

Associate Director C, Research

Job Description Summary

Based in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, the Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities works closely with Price Lab staff and collaborators to imagine, design, and build projects that take advantage of accessible and sustainable digital humanities tools. In addition to project-based work, the Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities is an important member of the scholarly network at Penn who develops and teaches workshops and stays current on relevant technologies, methods, and debates within critical/creative digital humanities, broadly construed. This includes developing original scholarship in collaboration with the Price Lab and other members of the DH community at Penn and beyond. The start date for this position is flexible and could range from January 2025 to Summer 2025.

Job Description

As the centerpiece of the School of Arts and Sciences strategic initiative Humanities in the Digital Age, the Price Lab supports innovative uses of technology in the study of history, art, and culture. We work in close partnership with the Penn Libraries and Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology to help train faculty and students in the latest digital tools and methods, encourage development of new computing-intensive humanities courses, and promote collaborative faculty-student experiments and research projects.

Responsibilities

The mission of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities (DH) is to help humanities scholars become more confident users, creators, and critics of technology. A member of the core Price Lab team, the Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities will:

• Collaborate with Penn scholars on digital projects and/or research groups. Within the context