January Opportunities

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published December 28, 2022. Latest revision January 25, 2023.

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

Events

• BSA Bibliography Week
  Free, hybrid (additional in-person events listed at link above) series of events from the Bibliographic Society of America. Prologue to Bibliography Week: January 10-20, 2023; Bibliography Week: January 23-28, 2023.
  • Bibliography Week Orientation
    Zoom, January 10, 1p Pacific (4pm ET).
  • New Scholars Program: Individual Talk Screenings & Q&A Sessions
    Zoom, January 18-20, 4p Pacific (7pm ET).
  • Finding Your Focus: A Roundtable for Aspiring Book Collectors
    Zoom, January 23, 9a Pacific (12pm ET).
  • Speaking Texts: Recordings, Preservation, Accessibility, and Indigeneity
    Zoom, January 24, 10a Pacific (1pm ET).
  • BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Disabled, & Spanish-speaking Bibliographers: Bibliography Week Meet-Up
    Zoom, January 24, 2:30p Pacific (5:30pm ET).
  • 2023 New Scholars Program, BSA Annual Meeting & Reception
    NYC and online, January 27, 11a-3p Pacific (2-6pm ET).
• Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute: Information Session
  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. Application deadline: January 31, 2023. Information session: January 17, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme “Medical Miscellany,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), January 19, 2023.
• From the Kislak Stacks Lecture
  “Who owns Judaica Cultural Heritage?” Arthur Kiron (Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections, Adjunct Asst. Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania). Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), January 20, 2023.
• Penn Material Texts Workshop
  Paul Farber (Penn & Monument Lab), “After Permanence: A Future History of Monuments,” hybrid streaming on Zoom, 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), Monday, January 23, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme “An Hour of Hours,” co-sponsored special session between Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania) and McGill University Rare Books and Special Collections. Hybrid with online access via Zoom, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), January 24, 2023.
• “Phillis Wheatley and her Books”
  Joseph Rezek for Jane Austen & Co., Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Online via Zoom, 2p Pacific (5p Eastern), January 24, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme “Carta Executoria” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), January 26, 2023.
• Book Owners Online Boo-a-Thon
  Collaborative online research day about bookplates and the historical book owners who used them. Online (Zoom). 10a-4p London time, Friday, January 27, 2023.
• Penn Material Texts Workshop
  Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College), “Festivities and Race-Making: Assessing The Visual and the Written Record,” hybrid streaming on Zoom, 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), Monday, January 30, 2023.
• Visualizing Cities Summer Institute
  Call for applications for workshop, “Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Art History Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR,” Venice International University (Venice, Italy), June 5-16, 2023. Application deadline: January 31, 2023.
• Rare Book School
  Online and in-person summer courses at a variety of East US locations. Application deadline: February 19, 2023 (“before February 20”).
• 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

• DHNB Conference Workshop
  “Cross-university collaboration in Digital Humanities & Social Science (DHSS) and Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage (DHCH) Education,” workshop as part of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Annual Conference, online (Zoom), March 7, 2023. Deadline: January 15, 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 January 31, 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.
• 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 extended to January 31, 2023.
• Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium
  CFP for symposium from the University of Florida and the University of North Florida to be held in Gainesville (FL) on Friday, March 3, 2023. Submission deadline: February 5, 2023.
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute
  Multiple CFPs for the fully-online second week programming for DHSI. See link for themes. Deadline: February 10, 2023.
• Women’s Writing in History
  “Digital Approaches to Women’s Historical Book Culture,” essays for a volume in Brill peer-reviewed series “Women Writers in History.” Deadline: March 1, 2023.
• Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
  jTEI 2022 Conference edition – for authors of any presentation at the recent conference and members meeting. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
• Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
  Theme “touch.” Full submissions due: May 1, 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. Deadline: January 12, 2023.
• 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.
• Bibliographical Society Major Grants
  Pantzer Fellowship and other major grants, with various requirements, from the Bibliographical Society (UK). Deadline: Friday, January 20, 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: “Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities”
  Supports projects led by individual researchers or collaborative teams. Deadline: February 2, 2023.
• PhD Studentship
  “Experimental Book Formats Before the Printing Press,” fully-funded PhD studentship at Coventry University (UK). Deadline: February 15, 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. 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.
• Book Art Research Fellowship
  2-3 week research fellowship at Center for Book Arts (New York, NY). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• PhD Studentships
  Funding for PhD study in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University (UK). Deadline: March 31, 2023.

Jobs, Fellowships & Internships

• 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.
• Head of Special Collections Technical Services
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. 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.
• Special Collections Catalog and Metadata Librarian
  Williams College (Williamstown, MA). Deadline: January 17, 2023.
• Shelby White & Leon Levy Fellowship in Manuscript Cataloging
  Term fellowship, Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY). Deadline: January 20, 2023.
• Librarian/Archivist
  Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR). Deadline: January 20, 2023.
• Collection Data Analyst
  British Library (St Pancras, London, UK). Deadline: January 22, 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.
• Digital Cicognara Library Project Metadata Specialist
  Part time grant funded position, Princeton University (Remote / Princeton, NJ). Deadline: January 23, 2023.
• Special Collections Curator
  Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (Fairway, KS). Deadline: January 23, 2023.
• Seiler Library Internship
  Summer internship at the Seiler Library, American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA). Deadline: January 31, 2023.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Open Social Scholarship, Data Visualization, and Digital Pedagogy/Outreach in Library and Archives Contexts
  Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership and Library and Archives Canada-Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (LAC-BAC), Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). Deadline: January 31, 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.
• Digital Archivist
  Wallace Center – Archives, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY). Initial review begins: February 2, 2023.
• UW Data Science for Social Good Student Fellowships
  10-week, full-time summer program with the UW eScience Institute. Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Sustainable Digital Scholarship Service Manager
  Centre for Digital Scholarship & Digital Humanities Support, Humanities Division, University of Oxford (England). Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Special Collections Librarian
  Florida Atlantic University Libraries (Boca Raton, FL). Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Professorship, “Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory”
  University of Ruhr Bochum (Germany). Deadline: February 23, 2023.
• Lecturer for Data Science in Society
  Department of Information Studies, University College London (UK). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Special Collections Summer Fellowships
  For current or recent graduate students interested in pursuing a career in special collections or archives. Special Collections, Princeton University Library (Princeton, NJ). Deadline: March 1, 2023.
• Digital Scholarship Specialist
  Two positions, Princeton University Libraries (Princeton, NJ).
• Curatorial Fellowship in Rare Books
  Two-year position. Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology (Kansas City, MO).
• 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.).
• 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.
• Assistant Curator of Rare Books
  Special Collections & Public Services, Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, Missouri).