All - none of these is a history of technology or computing job per se, but both the open position and the Digital Humanities position could be a fit for the right person.
- Paul N. Edwards
2009-10 Faculty Search Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
The School of Information at the University of Michigan seeks three (3)
outstanding faculty candidates. One position is open to candidates at
any level of seniority and in any area that complements and extends our
existing strengths. The other two candidates are targeted hires which
are part of the University of Michigan Interdisciplinary Junior Faculty Initiative. For each of the targeted hires, other collaborating units on campus are also hiring in related areas.
One targeted position is in
Digital Environments.
For that position, we seek someone whose research and teaching
interests are at the intersection of digital arts and humanities,
digital literacies, and social computing. Research foci should involve
arts and humanities scholarship, scholars, or content and can be in a
variety of areas, such as (but not limited to) virtual collaboration,
credibility, and/or digital curation. This position is at the assistant
professor level.
A second targeted position is in
Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D).
For that position, we seek someone with research and teaching interests
including some combination of information system design,
computer-supported cooperative work, environmental informatics,
communication studies, development policy and sociology, anthropology,
and/or a related field applicable to the design and study of
information systems for developing-world contexts. This position is at
the assistant professor level.
For the
open position,
we aspire to establish and reinforce areas of excellence and seek
faculty whose research interests complement and extend our existing
strengths. This position is open rank.