<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#222222">Please forward widely! Applicants are welcome to write any of the organizers - me, Christian Sandvig, or Carl Lagoze - about this position.</font></p><div><br></div><div>- Paul</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Postdoctoral Fellow in
Infrastructure Studies</span></b><b><span style="color:#222222;background:white"><br>
</span></b><span style="color:#222222;background:white"><br>
The University of Michigan announces an eleven-month postdoctoral fellowship
position. The position will start September 1, 2013.<br>
<br>
<i>Salary: </i>$50-60,000 per year (depending on negotiated duties), plus a competitive
benefits package, $5,000 in discretionary funding, and the opportunity to
appoint and supervise one or more paid undergraduate research assistants to
work on projects of your choice.<br>
<br>
<i>To apply:</i><br>
<br>
Candidates should submit the following materials electronically to Prof.
Christian Sandvig at <</span><span style="background-repeat:initial initial"><a href="mailto:infra-postdoc@umich.edu" target="_blank">infra-postdoc@umich.edu</a><font color="#1155cc">></font></span><span style="color:#222222;background:white"><br>
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Email <<a href="mailto:infra-postdoc@umich.edu" target="_blank">infra-postdoc@umich.edu</a>> one PDF file which includes:</span></p>
<ol><li>A statement of interest describing your relevant background and skills</li><li>A current curriculum vitae</li><li>The name and contact information for three references. (One reference should be your doctoral advisor.) Letters of recommendation will only be solicited from finalists.</li>
<li>Two publications or other writing samples</li></ol><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Review
of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is
filled.<br>
<br>
<i>Position Description</i><br>
<br>
The Department of Communication Studies (in the College of Literature, Science,
and the Arts) and the School of Information are jointly offering a postdoctoral
fellow position in the multidisciplinary area of “infrastructure studies.”<br>
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The addition of information technology is transforming the way society provides
important infrastructures, including those that support media,
telecommunications, power, and transport, but also those that support
knowledge, culture, and scientific data. Thanks to new capabilities in
computing and control, every year our infrastructures claim to be “smarter,”
with new capacities for distributed processing, analysis, sensing, adapting,
and autonomous self-improvement. This radical transformation is well underway,
but the assessment of its consequences is still in its infancy. For example,
infrastructure unevenly distributes benefits and capabilities, with complex and
sometimes unforeseen implications for politics, economics, knowledge, and
social justice (to name just a few domains). This position will fund a
researcher who will have the opportunity to work alongside senior collaborators
to define and shape this new area of scholarship.<br>
<br>
<i>Qualifications:</i><br>
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The successful applicant will have completed the Ph.D. in a related area by the
start date with a dissertation related to information and/or media
infrastructures, broadly defined. The ideal candidate may be trained in science
& technology studies, information science, media theory, computer-supported
collaborative work, and/or human-computer interaction. Applicants should have
some familiarity with qualitative research methods. Applicants who also have
some technical background related to the infrastructure(s) they study are of
particular interest, but this is not required.<br>
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This position is jointly sponsored by two academic units located on adjacent
floors of the same building. The postdoctoral fellow will have office space in
the Department of Communication Studies and may have the opportunity to teach
one course in the School of Information (to be negotiated). The postdoctoral
fellow will pursue his or her own independent research agenda, but will also be
expected to collaborate with the faculty on the convening committee (listed
below).<br>
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The postdoctoral fellow will be an equal member of the research group. S/he
will be expected not only to conduct independent research, but also to
collaborate actively in joint research projects with faculty, graduate
students, and undergraduate research assistants. This responsibility includes
regular communication and coordination with the project team. The postdoc will
also be expected to contribute substantially to publications related to
“infrastructure studies,” acting as first author on some and as a secondary
author on others.<br>
<br>
<i>Convening committee:</i><br>
<br>
Prof. </span><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csandvig/"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Christi</span>an Sandvig</a><span style="background-repeat:initial initial"> (chair) <<a href="mailto:csandvig@umich.edu" target="_blank">csandvig@umich.edu</a>> <br>Prof. </span><a href="http://www.si.umich.edu/people/carl-lagoze">Carl Lagoze</a><span style="background-repeat:initial initial"> <<a href="mailto:clagoze@umich.edu" target="_blank">clagoze@umich.edu</a>><br>
Prof. </span><a href="http://pne.people.si.umich.edu">Paul N. Edwards</a><span style="background-repeat:initial initial"> <<a href="mailto:pne@umich.edu" target="_blank">pne@umich.edu</a>><br>
<br><font color="#222222">
Please feel free to contact any member of the convening committee with
questions about this position. As mentioned above, please send application
materials to the search co</font></span><span style="background-repeat:initial initial">mmittee <<a href="mailto:infra-postdoc@umich.edu" target="_blank">infra-postdoc@umich.edu</a>> <font color="#222222">and not to individual committee members.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Non-Discrimination
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