December Opportunities

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published November 29, 2022, latest revision December 21, 2022.

Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter, TXTDS-affiliated faculty.

Events

• AAS Book Talk
  “Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture,” Jeffrey Makala. Online, 11a Pacific (2p Eastern), December 1, 2022.
• Python Introductory Workshop
  Naomi Alterman of the UW eScience Institute will lead an intro workshop to the Python programming language as a tool for qualitative humanities work. In person, 9a-12p Pacific, MGH 076, Friday, December 2, 2022.
• Workshop in the History of Material Texts
  Chi-ming Yang (Penn), “Finding Octavia E. Butler in the Archives and around Black Pasadena,” hybrid event from University of Pennsylvania Material Texts program. 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), December 5, 2022.
• Coffee with a Codex
  “In the Stars” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
• Aeromoto Library webinar
  “Activing Aeromoto Library: Cultivating Community-Based Curation Curiosity, and Imagination,” sponsored by BSA. Online via Zoom, 12p Pacific (1p CDMX), December 7, 2022.
• SIMS Online Lecture Series
  Federico Botana (Institute of English Studies, University of London & 2022-23 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Visiting Research Fellow), “The Card Index of Leo Olschki and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts in the Early 20th Century.” Online, 9a Pacific (12-1:30p Eastern), December 9, 2022.
• Coffee with a Codex
  “Genealogical Roll” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
• University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Exhibit
  In-person exhibit in UW Special Collections, “Invisible Cities: The Prints of Giovanni Battisti Piranesi and the Art of the Built Environment.” On display through March 18, 2023.

Calls for Proposals

• AI and Archives Symposium
  CFP for Full Stack Feminism, Women in Focus, and the Sussex Humanities Lab symposium at University of Sussex (UK) / hybrid, April 27-28, 2023. Deadline: Monday, January 9, 2023.
• Humanities Data Science Summer Institute
  Calls for applications for faculty/staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students for an institute hosted by the UW Data Science Minor. Deadline: January 15, 2023.
• SHARP 2023 Conference
  CFP for the online conference for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), “Affordances and Interfaces: Textual Interactions Past, Present, and Future.” Conference dates: June 26-29, 2023. Deadline: January 15, 2023.
• RBMS 2023 Conference
  CFP for the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (of the American Library Association) annual meeting. Submission portal to open in November, deadline: January 20, 2023.
• Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute
  Call for applications to week-long residential DH institute at University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) June 11-17, 2023 from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective. Information session: January 17, 2023. Application deadline: January 31, 2023.
• BSC Annual Conference
  CFP for the Bibliographical Society of Canada’s annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 29-30, 2023. Theme: “Book: Re-imagined and Re-born.” Deadline: January 31, 2023.
• International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
  CFP for special issue, “Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis.” Deadline: January 31, 2023.
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute
  Multiple CFPs for the fully-online second week programming for DHSI. See link for themes. Deadline: February 10, 2023.
• Manuscript Studies Journal
  CFP for Spring 2024 issue and beyond of Manuscript Studies from SIMS at University of Pennsylvania. Submissions accepted continuously. Deadline for next issue: June 30, 2023 (peer reviewed articles) or August 31, 2023 (non-peer reviewed annotations).

Funding & Awards

• NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
  Support for innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects. Optional draft due: November 14, 2022. Hard deadline: January 12, 2023.
• RBS M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources
  Two-year fellowship for educators (faculty and librarians). Deadline extended to December 11, 2022.
• SHARP Book History Book Prize
  Call for nominations of books in or related to the field of book history, in English and copyrighted in 2022 for award from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). Deadline: Friday, January 13, 2023.
• UW Seattle Black Opportunity Fund
  Open to UW Seattle students, faculty, and staff for projects in educational enhancement, Black community, innovation/stretch projects. Deadline: January 17, 2023.
• Linda Hall Library 2023-2024 Fellowship Program
  Several different funding opportunities for conducting research at Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, Missouri). Deadline: January 20, 2023.
• New York Historical Society 2023-2024 Fellowships
  Multiple funding opportunities for short and long term projects at the New York Historical Society (New York City, NY). Deadline: January 31, 2023.
• Rare Book Collection Fellowships
  Multiple funding opportunities for research in the Wilson Library Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Deadline: January 31, 2023.
• PhD Studentship
  Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded PhD studentship in English Literature at Keele University (UK) in collaboration with Tatton Park, Knutsford, and the National Trust. Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2023.
• NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
  Supports national or regional training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Optional draft deadline: December 15, 2022. Deadline: February 15, 2023.
• National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship
  Supports three-month fellowship doing research in the National Library of Scotland’s data collections (can be remote with some travel). Deadline: February 20, 2023.
• PhD Studentships
  Funding for PhD study in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University (UK). Deadline: March 31, 2023.

Jobs & Fellowships

• Public Services Student Assistant – Special Collections
  Must be current University of Washington student. UW Libraries Special Collections (Seattle, WA). Deadline: December 4, 2022.
• Associate Professor of Digital Humanities
  San Jose State University (California), College of Humanities & the Arts, Humanities Department. Deadline: December 1, 2022.
• Tenure Track Faculty in Digital Archives, Preservation, and/or Curation
  School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Preferred start date August 16, 2023. Priority deadline: December 1, 2022.
• Humanities and Special Collections Cataloger
  University of Washington Libraries (Seattle, WA). Deadline: December 1, 2022.
• Assistant Director of AOCP Phase II
  Director for Digital Humanities project relating to Arabic-script text recognition and encoding. University of Maryland, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies (College Park, Maryland). Priority deadline: December 1, 2022.
• Director of Scholarly Programs & Partnerships
  American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass.). Deadline: December 15, 2022.
• Assistant or Associate Curator
  Rare Book School, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA). Deadline: December 19, 2022.
• Administrative Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
  Rare Book School, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA). Deadline: December 23, 2022.
• Digital Systems & Digital Scholarship Specialist
  Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara. Hybrid/remote possible. Open until filled, first review: January 4, 2023.
• Team Lead / Faculty Director of Rare and Distinctive Collections
  University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. Deadline: January 8, 2023.
• Assistant Professor of Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science
  University of Washington (Seattle), College of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Division (cross-disciplinary divisional recruitment to be hired to one of eight departments in the division). Deadline: January 9, 2023.
• Curator of Special Collections and University Archivist
  Wichita State University Libraries (Wichita, KS). Deadline: January 10, 2023.
• Digital Ethnic Futures Post-doctoral Fellowship
  Two-year postdoctoral position in Digital Humanities at New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ). Deadline: January 13, 2023.
• Senior Bibliographer
  Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). Two openings. Search department “Library” in jobs. Deadline: January 16, 2023.
• Librarian/Archivist
  Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR). Deadline: January 20, 2023.
• Oschinsky Research Associate
  Girton College, University of Cambridge (UK). 10 month term October 2023-July 2024. Application deadline: Sunday, January 22, 2023.
• Munby Fellowship in Bibliography
  University of Cambridge (UK). Two openings. 10 month term. Deadline: Sunday, January 22, 2023.
• New York Historical Society 2023-2024 Fellowships
  Multiple funding opportunities for short and long term projects at the New York Historical Society (New York City, NY). Deadline: January 31, 2023.
• Special Collections Librarian
  Florida Atlantic University Libraries (Boca Raton, FL). Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Digital Content Services Librarian
  Beinecke Library, Yale (New Haven, Connecticut).
• Curator for African American and African Diasporic Collections
  Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.).
• Charles Ogletree Papers Assistant Archivist
  Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.).
• Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
  Yale Center for British Art, Yale (New Haven, Connecticut).
• Special Collections Cataloger
  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
• Head, Rare Books Program
  Head of the Rare Books Program in the Special Collections and University Archives division at Rutgers New Brunswick (New Jersey). Review begins immediately, open until filled.
• Director, Rare Books & Manuscripts
  Director for auction consignment company Heritage Auctions in Irving, Texas.
• Assistant Professor, Teaching Track in Data Science
  Information School, University of Washington. 9-month appointment, start date September 1, 2023.
• Assistant Professor, Teaching Track in Human-Computer Interaction
  Information School, University of Washington. 9-month appointment, start date September 1, 2023.
• Special Collections Librarian
  Augusta University Libraries (Augusta, GA).
• Assistant Curator of Rare Books
  Special Collections & Public Services, Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, Missouri).