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Occidental College
(position filled)
The Center for Digital Learning and Research (CDLR) at Occidental College seeks applications from postdoctoral candidates in the humanities for the following two-year opportunity. The Occidental College CLIR Fellowship will give an ambitious and flexible recent Ph.D. recipient in the Humanities an opportunity to develop as a scholar and information professional through involvement in the integration of digital content and technologies with the teaching and research activities of a leading liberal arts college.
Digital Humanities Specialist
The Center for Digital Learning and Research offers a CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellowship focusing on digital modes of, and tools for, teaching and research. The Fellow will work closely with faculty and staff from CDLR, the Library, Information Technology Services, and other campus Centers to create e-journals and other digital publications on OxyScholar, an implementation of the BePress platform. Additionally, the CLIR Fellow will have opportunities to participate in such other digital scholarship activities as developing visual and textual collections, leading workshops for faculty and staff on issues pertaining to the development and use of digital materials and technologies, and working with the CDLR and faculty to explore ways in which digital content and technologies can enhance instruction and research in the humanities and foster cross-disciplinary endeavors.
The CDLR is a new organizational unit comprised of library, academic technology, and media services professional staff. The Director of the Center reports to the Vice President for Information Resources, whose other units include the College Library and Information Technology Services. The mission of the CDLR is to enable useful connections among digital content, technologies, and services to support teaching, learning, research, and new types of scholarly work for faculty and students. The goals of the CDLR are to:
- Provide learning environments, physical and virtual, which empower faculty and engage students
- Integrate information resources, technologies and services in new ways to more closely align with how students and faculty work
- Assist students with making the transition from the recreational use of technology and content to academic use of technology and content by working with both students and faculty
- Promote creativity in faculty and student discipline-related work
- Engage and assist faculty in exploring the intersections of pedagogy, content, and a technological "life of the mind"
Reporting to the Director of the CDLR, the CLIR Fellow will be a regular employee of Occidental College with responsibilities that include the following:
- Assist faculty with development of e-journals, including a College digital publication focusing on the work of the Summer Undergraduate Research program.
- Work with faculty across the curriculum (with an emphasis on the humanities) to help them learn new ways of incorporating digital content and technologies into their teaching and research.
- Collaborate with the Special Collections Librarian and others on campus in the development of digital collections.
- Develop and conduct training sessions and workshops, some perhaps in collaboration with the Center for Teaching Effectiveness, around digital scholarly publishing and the use of digital content and technologies in instruction and research.
- Create a network of regional resources in the areas of digital humanities, GIS, and new media publications in order to provide-next-generation publishing venues, teaching tools, and collaborative opportunities for Occidental College students and faculty.
Occidental College (http://www.oxy.edu/x92.xml) is in Eagle Rock, a neighborhood in the northeastern corner of the city of Los Angeles (http://www.oxy.edu/x90.xml). Its location in a world city on the Pacific Ocean and near the mountains and deserts of Southern California offers ready access to the broadest array of activities and proximity to internationally important libraries and museums, not the least of which are the Huntington Library, the Getty Center, the University of California Los Angeles , the University of Southern California, Cal Tech, and the Claremont Colleges, with all of which the College has scholarly ties.
Salary and Benefits
The CLIR Fellow will be a regular employee of Occidental College with a salary of $48,000 plus the standard benefits accrued by employees (http://www.oxy.edu/x3016.xml).
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