[ecrea] Job opening: Ass. Professor in Digital Humanities and Information Cultures at the University of Amsterdam

*Assistant professor in Digital Humanities and Information Cultures*
*Faculty of Humanities – Department of Media Studies*

Level of education
PhD
Salary indication
€3,400 to €5,288 gross per month
Closing date
30 May 2016
Hours
38 hours per week
Vacancy number
16-225

The Faculty of Humanities 
<http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculties/faculties/content/folder/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/faculty-of-humanities.html> 
provides education and conducts research with a strongly international 
profile in a large number of disciplines in the field of language and 
culture. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the Faculty maintains close 
ties with many cultural institutes in the capital city. There are almost 
700 employees affil- iated with the Faculty, which has about 6,000 students.
The Faculty of Humanities offers assistant professors the opportu- nity 
to collaborate with leading researchers at research institutes that - 
partly as a result of their multidisciplinary approach - are 
world-renowned. Moreover, you will be teaching in a dynamic con- text in 
which new educational methods are being developed.
Together with other new assistant professors you will participate in a 
comprehensive introductory programme. You will be supervised closely 
during the first year of your appointment. Additional didac-  tical 
training is also part of the appointment. Based on the candi- date's 
educational portfolio, previously acquired competences will be taken 
into consideration.
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*Job description*
The candidate will bring to the position a relevant and innovative 
research agenda in the areas of Digital Humanities and Information 
Cultures and will be especially interested in the critical study, de- 
velopment and application of digital methods, techniques and tools. The 
study of Digital Humanities within Media Studies con- cerns both 
contemporary and historical periods, and also tran- scends the 
individual disciplines within the field. Candidates will be at home in 
more than one sub-discipline, demonstrated by experience in working with 
data collections of different types, both digitized and born-digital. In 
the study of information and media (broadly understood as books, 
artworks, audio-visual media and digital media), digital research 
materials are evolving in spectac- ular fashion, leading to new research 
affordances that require a critical approach to media as information, as 
well as to how digital media structure the reuse and interpretation of 
born-digital and historical data. The successful candidate is expected 
to bring to- gether researchers working in Digital Humanities, 
Information Cultures and Media Studies and aim to acquire funding for 
collab- orations by actively participating in one of the research 
schools in the Faculty of Humanities. Whilst the successful candidate is 
free to choose his/her research affiliation, he/she would be asked to 
make a contribution to the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and 
Identity, one of the University of Amsterdam’s research priority areas.
The candidate also will play a major role in teaching courses and in 
curriculum development in the bachelor, Media and Information (in both 
the Information Cultures as well as the New Media tracks, in- cluding 
the minor in Digital Humanities), and in the master pro- grams in 
Information Cultures, Archival Studies and/or New Media & Digital 
Culture. Furthermore, the candidate is expected to be an ambassador for 
the research programs and actively liaise and work with stakeholders 
both within and outside of the university sector.
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*Requirements*

   * Relevant PhD degree, or PhD defense date scheduled before start of
     contract, in the area of humanities;
   * programming skills and/or skilled use of software for data analysis;
   * experience in research and excellent research skills, evidenced by
     publications in renowned international academic journals / edited
     volumes;
   * several years of teaching experience at the university level and
     demonstrable didactic abilities and / or training, evidenced by an
     educational portfolio;
   * experience in an academic position where research and teach- ing are
     combined;
   * experience with digital and audio-visual equipment; affinity with
     the use of  ICTs in academic education;
   * capable of functioning at all levels in more than one programme of
     study;
   * organisational experience and skills;
   * reliable team worker;
   * thorough knowledge of Dutch and English; non-native Dutch speakers
     are requested to achieve competency in Dutch within two years.

*Further information*

   * Prof. Richard Rogers <mailto:(r.a.rogers /at/ uva.nl)>

*Appointment*
The appointment will be a tenure track appointment, for 38 hours a week. 
The initial appointment will be two years. Depending on teaching 
evaluations and professional assessment, tenure will be granted after 
two years. The gross monthly salary will range from €3,400 (scale 11) to 
€5,288 (scale 12), based on a full-time ap- pointment (38 hours a week). 
The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities 
<http://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/CAO> is applicable.
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*Job application*
Applications including a detailed curriculum vitae and two names of 
referees should be sent no later than 29 May 2016 to the Dean of the 
Faculty of Humanities, Prof. F.P.I.M. van Vree via our email ad- dress 
(solliciteren2016-FGW /at/ uva.nl) <mailto:(solliciteren2016-FGW /at/ uva.nl)>. Please 
state vacancy number 16-224 in the subject line.

/No agencies please/


Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
Assistant Professor in New Media
Program Director MA New Media & Digital Culture

University of Amsterdam
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam

(c.gerlitz /at/ uva.nl) <mailto:(c.gerlitz /at/ uva.nl)>
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/c.gerlitz/
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